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Show GASOLINE EXPLOSION One Man Burned to Death and Others Injured IMilsburg, Jan. 20. One man was consumed by the flames and six others oth-ers are in hospitals suffering with burns received Bhortlyi after thrfe o'clock this morning when a huge fnsollnc tank exploded at the soap plant of the Walker Brothers on Herrs Island, a few miles from this city on th Allegheny river. Tho tank was 20 by 10 feet and was almost full of the explosive The oxploslon was heard and the concussion felt for miles about the city. Patrol wagons were called from four precincts and ambulances of two noapltala as it was f fared that scores of workers had been killed. The explosion caused a firo that consumed the big garbage drying plant and it was in this blase that one man lost his life. The cause of the explosion is not known. |