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Show STARCH EXPLODES KILLING EIGHT Chicago, March 7. From eight to ten persons were reported killed and beventeeu were Injured, many of them probably falally, in a terrific explosion at the works of the American Maisc Products company at Roby, Indiana, tonight. The explosion occurred In a detached detach-ed building of the plant and was preceded pre-ceded by a fire that noon enveloped a largo thret'-btory warehouse. Starch in an overheated Kiln Is buppoaed to havo btf-n the cause. At midnight the tire was so Intemo It was Impossible to enter the place or to determiue the number of dead. It was known that 29 workmen were In tho building at the time. Seventeen Seven-teen were rescued terribly burned. Of tho 12 unaccounted lor .some may havH escaped until hurt Roby, Ind.. la Just across the Illinois boundary, not far from South Chicago. The company's plant covpth scceral acres ond employee 275 men. Tho flro broke out suddenly after a force of men had prepared a kiln filled with March. The starch a moment mo-ment later blew up like gunpowder. So great was the force that some of the Injured were hurb-d through windows win-dows and doors, and In that way ea-capod ea-capod death la the fiamr-s. Soon the whole building was on Are and the roof and the upper floors were blown skyward. |