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Show oo MANY HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE Dynamite, Gasoline and Gunpowder Gun-powder Explosion Tears City Buildings to Bits Grand Kapnls. Mich.. Nov. JO More than a score of spectators aud a dozen doz-en firemen were slightly bcrned or cut by flying debris when a quantity of dynamite) gunpowder and ga-soiine exploded in a burning building in the busiuess section early today The fire started In the Vandervcen building and spread rapidly to ad Joining structures, destroying a branch of the Grand Rapids Savings bank, the Van Wycka I"nip ptore and he Storehouse Hardware store. In the rush for safety several women and thildren were trampled while others fainted and were carried out by the fireman |