Chicago, Illinois
Baker Bros. Building Fire
June
1893
Chicago, June 24. -- As a result of a fire due to a dust explosion
Friday afternoon in
 the
Baker Bros. building, No. 155 West Polk street, four employes were more or less
seriously injured and $20,000 damage done. One of the injured men,
Rudolph
Block, is at the county hospital. It is thought that he will recover.
Another employe, William Fuhrwerk, could not be found and was supposed to have
been burned to death.
Daily Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa, 24 June 1893
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