Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-04 | Page 1 | Explosion in a City

EXPLOSION I IN J CITY Springfield, Mass., is Shaken, City Building Build-ing Damaged Springfield, 5rass., April 4. Several thousand dollars of damage was dono early today to Springfield's new mil-lion-dollar municipal building, now In process of construction, by an explosion explo-sion which wrecked the base of the 300-foot clock tower and shook the city for a radius of several blocks. Two explosions, one following directly di-rectly after the other, were heard by the officers on duty in the police station sta-tion adjoining the tower. All the windows win-dows In the police offices wero smashed smash-ed by tho concussion. Officials believe that dynamite was used in a deliberate attempt to wreck the building.