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Show Mouses in Chicago Rock When Black Hand Bomb Goes Off Chicago, April 13, Hundreds of houses were shaken about midnight when a nltro-glycerine bomb was set ofl, supposedly by Black Hand agents, on the porch of a house nt 853 Ewing street. One of the central points of panic was Hull House, only a few hundred feet d.stant from the explosion The explosion was so loud that it was heard for a radius of two miles. Hundreds Hun-dreds of windows were broken. One of the features of tho explosion was the simultaneous ringing of a falsn fire alarm from a box a mile away from tho scene Tho police believe that the bomb-thrower bomb-thrower had an accomplice who turned in this alarm in order to divert the attention -of the police and fire departments de-partments from the neighborhood chosen for the explosion. Xo one was killed in the house, which was badly damaged, but several persons within "were thrown from their beds and Injured That Black Hand activities furnished fur-nished -a motive for tho explosion was the police deduction when they learned learn-ed that Augustlno Arngo, who lived in the house until a week ago, had received re-ceived threatening letters demanding that he leave $500 In a vacant lot. |