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Show EXPLOSION I KILLS FIVE I Many Spectators at I Packing Plant Fire I Caught in Ruins Mediciue Hat. Alberta. March 20. Five are dead and ten badly injured I as the result of an explosion of gas when the three story building of the Western Canada Cold Storage .v Pa k- ! Ing plant burned here last night. The j WM property loss is $lut),000. I WM Despite reports that man were caught in the ruins, no bodies were i LLV ! found by searchers today. I mmM Many of tbe injured were specta- j WM I tors, who. watching the fire, were WmW crushed when three of tho walls were j WmW j forced outward by the explosion. All WM I the injured are expected to recover. I LH Up to an early hour today only five j bodies had been found, although it was reported that SO employes were ( WkW in the building when the walls fell j WmW A broken gas main filled the build- WWW ing with fumes and a small blaze I breaking out in another part of tbe plant caused the explosion, according to officials. I The property loss has been est i mat- j WkW ed as hinh as $1o0.uU0. WM |