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Show ONE HUNDRED HURT IN GAS EXPLOSION CHICAGO. Aug 1 More than a I hundred persons wore injured and an entire neighborhood terrorized Monday Mon-day by the explosion of more than . 000. 000 feet of gas and the collapse of Its container. The loss was estl- I mated at $50,000 The terrific blast, accompanied by a towering column of flame, came without warning, and spread desolation desola-tion and fear through a district covering cover-ing about six blocks and peopled mi ll ly by foreign laborers. A group of boys playing baseball In a vacant lot more thjan 100 yards from the gas plant had their eye brows burned off and their hair singed and suffered burns on their faces. The millions of feet of gas. ignited from some mysterious cause, which engineers engi-neers have been unable to explain, lifted the top off the huge circular tank. After the explosion, which was heard for miles, flames shot up to a great height, and as they subsided, the huge tank. 153 feet high and 190 feet In diameter, buckled In and collapsed a mass of glowing, twisted Iron. |