Show APARTMENT COSTS EIGHT LIVES TWO FIREMEN AND SIX NEGROES MEET DEATH AT IOUS EXPLOSION ken kanus city building budding collapses Code paes after unsolved ivan catastrophe car twenty eight penone are missing missile kansas city at mo two fireman sm and d six tenants tena lits were wen dead and ad twenty fright eight are inis missing following an efi explosion biaton and fire in an mu apar ment building in a negro oca district here he all of the missing aie be coved to hem have perished officials said the apartment had but one narrow exit and the explosion which wrecked ti the I 1 building is believed to have ra cut t off ff all chance of escape the two story to y brick structure true W wai enveloped b by y f fire re immediately after the b blatt fi firemen beare were wen trapped under a falling h ng wall 1 1 police w were cre unable to determine detar rume where the blast occurred or what h t c cd caused d it claims chims th that at it was as a pepin pas explosion I 1 were re improved when the mains were re f found d intact it appal apparently erny I 1 originated in one of the shops shape on the first floor the floor in the hallway leading leadin it to the one exit was blown blomn away by the first elpi explosion besl Ts terrified annl ed acu occupants P Z who made their way may to the hall were e compel compall ltd cil to turn back and ad the win in all de dows des s offered their ord only y thime chance of scope escape chilin floors in the apartment gave way hurling occupants to the midst of the blaze people living half a block from the building were thrown train from their beds by the tons force of the explosion several thousand negroes gathered around the ruins mins watching firemen search lo 10 for additional bodies police had difficulty in keeping the crowds back the building was new clevi |