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ST LOUIS GLOBE DEOMOCRAT.
October 26, 1904.

ATTRIBUTES EXPLOSION AND ELEVATOR FALL TO AIRSHIP.

SECURITY BUILDING TENANTS TREATED TO TRIPLE SENSATION IN ONE DAY.

About the time the Baldwin airship was passing over the city yesterday afternoon and while the roofs and windows of all the downtown skyscrapers were filled with persons craning their necks for a sight of the aerial chariot, a terrific explosion shook the Security building at fourth and Locust Streets.  Tenants as high as the eight floor felt the shock, while those lower were well aware that something unusual was happening from the steam from the basement.  Simultaneously with the explosion and possibly as a result of it, one of the elevators plunged down from the fourth floor to the first, but was caught by the safety device.  Then someone turned in a fire alarm.

While the excitement was highest and old negro passing along fourth street declared: "What be you spect when men goes flying thro de air dat way?  De Lord never tended to do dat no how, calamity is bond to come."