South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-25
NO FATALITIE
REPORTED; NEA
THEATER PAM
Spectators at Movie Hon
Three Miles Away Excited
by Explosion.
FREIGHT Is DERAILE
Large Mounds of Earth Exc
waited as Ton of Dynamite
Goes Up in Smoke.

CHICAGO. F'e5. 24.-E1p losion|
a powder magazine IN A stone Gus.
IN the southwestern outskirts OF Q
cago Friday night SHOOK tre ent
city and caused considerable exc
ment before the site OF the detor
ton could be discovered.
When windows were shattered
the west portions Of the city shor
before $50 O'Clock. excited Cd
were made 90 newspapers 20 disco'
where the explosion had occuri
and how many had been killed.
quisies by telephone - many plaI
failed 10 discover what hsd explod
but by a curious freak OF rewspap
dom. an inquiry by the Associe'
Press 10 Indianapolis s0ol brought
bulletin from Lafayette. Ind. q
the explosion had occurred at y
Cook. IL. on the edge of Chicago.
This information obtained witt
few minutes after the explosi
led 10 the tracing of tho accident
the quarry which Is Situated ia
rather secluded spot
No FATALITIES Reported
So far as could be ascsrtained
one was killed and early reports W
unable 90 explain how the accfd,
occurred. The Intensity Of the
plOsion was so great that the str
lights in summit. two miles from
quarry, were put out and sDectau
IA moving picture theaters in
southwestern part Of the CITY and
Arso, three miles from the quar-
we're thrown into temporary par
Nearly every window iT. Argo "
broken and people ran screaming
streets. There was aoth ng 70 :
a sudden conclusion and its res1
Ing crash Of glass having been q
Ioeeded by ordinary uuIetress ana /
usual darkening with ths snuning
street ughts
One of the first reports uas q
the large plant OF the Corn Produ
company at Argo had blown up.
this was soon disproved when p
PIE living near the quarry confirm
a report that the explosion h3i
Cured at McCoolz.
The first definite report had g
reached Monon railroad slgl
tower at Dyer, Ind and had ther
been relayed 90 the Mon0n dispatC
ct at Lafayette. whence % ca,
back 10 Chicago over the Ass0claI
Press wireA
Rocks Weather Bureau
The detonarion rocked the weatf
bureau in the tower of the fede
building II miles from The quar-
80 violently that one OF the forece
ers called up "a newspaper Office
ask Where is the earthquake
The quarry although in th. oiLy Ii
It's was so much out or the beat
ways that it took several hours
obtain any detailed informant,
The tracks of railroad runui
near the quarry were deIuEed W.
broken stone from thc quarry whi
produces mostly crushed Stone I
building and paving T nos
Part OF train STA on s. -l
track was blown from rails al
a switch tower "a con. Iaraale d
lance away was shattered as u
shrapneL T. was the occupant
This tower who managed 20 tran
matt the first report to the szr
tower az Dyer.
Large mounds of earth excevat
from the drainage canal nearby are
tumbled down lu spots giving tr
seublance 10 an ear-rera TIRE
lining the hanks 0f r- D.rf-Ir
river which parallels tho canal we
stripped OF branches ev Gv.rr deb.
AT considerable distance f.ou q
quarry.
IL was lmuo -s.nl. fo discover 3.
how much explosive had been So. %
but 81 was said ar least 3D. ton az a
Mantle was .r one .5mpar mert
q be ma -.artra