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Show SIX MEN HURT IN ETHER OLiST NEWSPAPER OFFICE ROCKS WHEN EXPLOSION OF DEADLY DEAD-LY ETHER OCCURS Everbody Ordered From Building of Hurst Publication; Flames Threaten Structure; Women Are Injured Chicago. Six employes were injured in-jured and several others bruised and cut when an explosion in tne engraving engrav-ing department of the Chicago Evening Even-ing American shook the Hearst building-. Many windows were shattered shat-tered and employes were ordered out of the building wdien flames broke out, although the fire was short lived and did small damage. Chemicals were said to have caused the explosion. The engraving room is located in the Hearst building and also is used by the Chicago Herald and Examiner, a morning newspaper. Immediately after the explosion a 2-11 fire alarm was sounded, but the almost deserted editorial offices of the two newspaper were without immediate information whether fire had started. The injured, including three young-women, young-women, were taken to the Iroqouis Memorial hospital. The explosion was said to have occurred oc-curred in the. handling of a can of either in the engraving- room. The flash and blast shook the building build-ing and injured several employes In the engraving room and nearby, and as the flames burst out a 2-11 alarm of the fire was sounded and all employes em-ployes ordered from the building. No one was believed to have been killed, as far as could be learned. Editorial employes of the Evening American fled with others In the building when orders were given to vacate, and one man stayed at his desk in the office of the Chicago Herald Her-ald and Examiner, the morning newspaper news-paper in the Hearst building, owned, own-ed, as is the American, by William Randolph Hearst. When, after the arrival of firemen, employes were able to get back to the editorial rooms, editors and reporters alike were unable to give many details de-tails except that a can of ether had exploded in the engraving room and several persons were hurt. Two girls were unconscious and unidentified at the Iroquois Memorial Memor-ial hospital, where several others of the injured were also taken. A half dozen slightly injured or hysterical employes were being cared for in the circulation rooms of the Herald and Examiner. The fire was soon extinguished, vith no great damage done, although windows on the alley side of the Hearst building were shattered. |