People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Chicago's Postoffice Damaged. [ARTICLE]

Chicago's Postoffice Damaged.

Chicago, 111., Sept. 5. —With a detonation that startled thousands and with a force that snapped solid bars of steel, the engine used to supply the government building with electric lights exploded at 11:10 last night.% A panic ensued among the 300 employes at work upon the early mails, but it was quelled at once. No one was hurt. The damage was confined to the wreckage of the engine and cellar.