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Show CHICAGO FINDS . CAUSE Of BLAST : Thirty Tons of Dynamite I Smash Glass and Shake Buildings CHICAGO. Fob. 26. Chicago and dozen of Its suburbs loday found out what caused the blast which literally shook them to their foundations and caused a frenz of excitement Friday nlirh. Thirty Ions of dynamite let i go In a stone quarry southwest of the I city shortly before 9 o'clock and hund-' hund-' reds of thousands of alarmed residents went to bed not knowing Just what had happened to give rise to rumors of I concerted bombings, earthoiiakes, lall-1 lall-1 Ing meteors and dlsaste; to plants. For an hour after the blast, the 1 1 1 -rago district was in a fury. The smashing smash-ing of glass in thousands of windows, the shaking of buildings and the Qolse of the explosion gave rise to report that bombings were occuirlng elmul-1 elmul-1 taneously in many parts of the city. ONLl ONE iN.ri RED While the police and newspaper of- flees were Hooded with hundreds of inquiries and thousands of frightened people were trying to find the source I of the blast, the Associated press j though a curious com Idence, was able to give the first authentic news I of the explosion. A Monon railroad signal tower at Dyer. Ind.. received definite word of the blast, and this w.is rleayed to the Monon dispatcher at LaFayette, fnd.. from yhence it was transmitted to R 1 Lafayette newspaper and the word of the explosion on the edge of Chicago came back to the city over the Associated Asso-ciated Press wires. In spite of the large area of land affected, af-fected, by Friday night's blast, only one man was seriously injured, although al-though scores were cut by glass and i shaken and bruised some of them I living miles from the scene of the blast. Albert Kendalc, the injured man, was operating a crane some distance dis-tance from the explosion and sustained la broken arm. Reports that hundreds i had been killed proved groundless. I IUSEIS I V KNOWN I The McCook quarry of the Consumers' Consum-ers' company, about U miles from Chicago's downtown district, contain-1 contain-1 ed two powder magazines, where dy-i dy-i namlte was stored to thaw out and I dry. In each magazine 600 cases of j dynamite were stored each case con- lalnlng 00 pounds of the explosive The I cause of the explosion probably will I never be known. It Is possible that a case of the dynamite feJ on another anoth-er case or that a rafter foil on a case. 1 Within a few hundred feet of the I quarry' an Atchison, Topeka & Santa I Fe train passed a few minutes before the blast that covered the track with stone and dirt, Tho homes of workmen situated only a few hundred yards from the quarry were apparently hurt no worse th an those miles away This vv is cx-I cx-I plained by the fact that he magazines I wee in the bottom of the quarry, the I houses thus being protected. FREAK OCCIDENTS j The explosion resulted In mun cur-1 cur-1 lous freaks, part of a train standing on a riding at McCook was blown from I tho rails. A crowd In an Argo theatre thea-tre rushed from the building in a pan-; pan-; ic. One woman was Injured in the Irtish. Street lights in' Summit, two I miles from McCook. were extinguish? ' ed. An automobile accessory dealer In Chicago summoned the police, asserting as-serting burglars were in his establlsh-i establlsh-i ment when the explosion toppled a i pile of tires on him A Chicago po-! po-! lice sergeant was aroused from sleep I by the blast He was fully awakened j a moment later when his cat in a fren-j fren-j zy of terror landed on his head and I dug with all Its claws Window glass j was shaken from windows along en-tlre en-tlre streets In Chicago. Windows In adjoining streets were uninjured. The damage caused by the explosion will never be known but It is hundreds hund-reds ol thousands of dollars. There is little to show the effect of the 1 hlast at the pot where it occurred. A great hole in the ground some 50 feet wide and 200 feet long, marks tho place where Friday the powder magazines maga-zines stood. 00 ' FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS The Difference Is in Who Does It BY BLOSSER 7 (jp 1 wame A 6co0 time V pep p' XT betty'? pasty f AMD0IDYOU S"EE WE l ppEcp y WAD A LOT V. ' CP FUN J YtS t 010- Jl W-MV- WUAT DID TAcS BUT TA M 00 TWAT w? SUOULDNT I .WEU-,VWUEMTUEDE vJJUZ omly owe Piece qauE ir- W I LEFT, TAG TooL IT JUST J g AS" I VWUZ. DEACWlM' J II ' ' J P-sCt I |