Show I I I I I I I CAUSE oi OF BI l MORTALITY Hamburg Dec explosion or ol two gas tanks In ho Oros on the Elbe Elba front this fore ford forenoon noon was wag followed by y nn an extensive lire fire Hud and the loss of man many lives The rho explosion was wag due to a leak in ina Ina a new Escaping gas en entered tho ho house where It come comeIn In contact wIth the fires fIros causing a le explosion A A large number t I of workmen were engaged lu in re rebuild rebuilding uld Ing and enlarging the plant Twenty l five y men were working near tile the meter DIeter Thc They disappeared In n a mass of names flames which shot up to a great greM heIght Fireman Firemon appeared quIckly hut were vere unable to approach in large because or of the Isolated of the tho establishment Late tonight ten men are aro reported drad and seventeen mIssing It is 15 al ab almost I most host certain that all these are Forty men wore were dangerously In injured several perhaps fatally The fhe fire spread rapIdly and threat the old containing 50 OU cubic meters So Intense was the tho heat an and so dangerous their position tion that the firemen were compelled to withdraw A terrific explosion soon occurred and the tho tower became a mass of llames hun hundreds hundreds of feet into the tho all air sending fragments of glowing coke far over the city and harbor After strenuous efforts the tho fire was tinder control and rescue work begun There Is little hope of finding the bodies boCles of the missing as they would undoubtedly have haye been Incinerated The new which exploded as the biggest In the world hayIng having havinga a capacity of cu cubic ic meters The city appropriated for fOl its construe tion |