Show A CRASH AND A I SMASH A chicado manhole SIan hole explodes with disastrous results rifled killed bani macy people injured ani and windom battled and drolen in III Frai fragments ments 0 CHICAGO jan 17 with a crash that was beard heard for a mile and a smashing of windows for a radius of three blocks a fewer man hole blew up thia evening at the intersection of jackson street and wabash avenue when the thoroughfares were crowded with shoppers and work people dozens of people were thrown to the ground by the terrific force of the explosion and wild panic ensued several passersby passers by were injured by falling glass one woman mrs 0 R rose ross colored was killed outright she was nearly over the man hol ewhen the cover blew up lamming her backwards flat against the curbing smashing her skull and scattering her braine brains about the stone F 11 II mack alack reci received ived a serious scalp wound from a paving stone shot upwards and had bad a painful gash in hia his wrist from a living p pi ce of window glass laes 0 SI 31 stout T sheldon T karpiers Karp lers and E W Wad dIl were also injured but not dangerously the offices of the singer sewing machine company were badly damaged out of of sixty windows in the premise emise snot enot one escaped atta at shewell ewel ir in angton g ton hotel and the chickering piano building eighty windows were broken it is ed illuminating gas leaked out into the manhole and was ignited in some manner by electric light wires |