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Show TEACHER li SEVEN PUPILS D1EJN BLAST Can of Explosive Hurls Death an:! Destruction on School Lot T.Att iiknc:vili.i: 111.. Ptfe, 8. I Eight peron arc dead and another probably fatally Injured it iho retiult Of tpe explosion of a can of nltro- J glycerin at the Cross-roads school, two miles west of hp'?, yesterday. : The dead are: Emmet lJurnyan. teacher, and the follov.lnc pupils. Kavmond Groves, Howard Lett, Thomas Lett, Charles Welton. Robert McCiaufclaud, Elmer Kellet and Rich-, ard Peters. Letter Groves, 11. is ex-1 footed to die. Several Other children received minor mi-nor Injuria in the explosion, which l occurred when one of the boys attempted at-tempted to cui the top from the can with an axe. Burn van and flv of the boy were killed Instantly and the other two. dlr-d later. Those whoso injuries were Hllrht( trere the victims of flying claps, every window in the school house, a one- storv frame structure, being dernol-1 lshe'd. The explosion was heard In Law-rencevlllc Law-rencevlllc and persons hurrylnjc to-1 ward the school house were met by screaming children Neighbors were the first to reach the school and calls were Immediately Immediate-ly sent to Vlncennes, lnd.. for ambulances. ambu-lances. The explosion occurred about s t fef-t from the school house. All of those killed were grouped about tho powder can and the rest of the pupil pu-pil were either In th- school or playing play-ing in tho yard. H Tho authorities were told that the boys, who wore at play, had fished the can from the creek near tho school yard. li Is believed that tho container had floated down from a nitroglycerin nitroglycer-in magazine about throo-quarterd of a mile away. |