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Show Police Baffled Over Explosion Chicago. Police are working on the theory that a bomb caused the explosion explo-sion and fire in a moonshine distillery resulting in the death of three persons per-sons and the injury of at least nine others. The explosion occurred In a mixed foreign quarter of the city, a melting pot for eleven different nationalities. nation-alities. Two buildings were wrecked. In the ruins of one building, which was swept by flames, police and firemen fire-men found the wreckage of two stills. The original report of the firemen was that one of the stills had exploded. Later it was learned that former occupants oc-cupants of the building had been slain by bombs and that threats had been made ag;nst the lives of familieswho up to Thursday night, lived in the ; structure. The ground floor of the building, in which the distillery was located, was occupied by a grocery store and the living quarters of tha man who owned It. |