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Show iH TANK EXPLODES, !; SMASHING URGE I WIDOWS B H Tho big air tank of the automobile V sprinkling system in the store of the H George A. Lowe company, on "Wash-H "Wash-H i(lngton avenue, exploded about 7:30 H J o'clock last night bursting one of the H main 'water pipes. Water ruBhed R N'through the broken pipe, flooding a H Section of the floor and doing cou- jsiderable damage. H V The explosion was heard by Patrol-H Patrol-H J -man James ITearn, who summoned H vtho tiro department, A crew (from B station No. 1. responded and succeed-H succeed-H ' ed in shutting off the water. Hj-'" Mrs. Charles Keller was standing In BvU front of the window when the explos-H explos-H ion occurred and received a most H, startling shock. |