Show FATAL FIRE IN A REFINERY SEVEN LIVES LOST GIRLS AND FIREMEN BEING THE VICTIMS the armour lard Iteli 1 nerr at the th union stock yard yards Ch leago Is burned aad llev mn hundred undred 11 employ employees burrow narrow escape during the progress pro rees of a fire which destroyed the lard refinery of armour aa G a nylo the union stock yards Chicago seventeen teen people were injured seven of them in a manner which will probably cause death in a short time the losa loss of the company is in estimated by ita acers at between and with all the chances in favor of the latter figure there were a number of accidents but by far the largest number cf of those abo who wera hurt met their injuries by the falling of the bog runway run way upon which they were is tending to obtain a better view of the fire te tie lard refinery had just juat been completed and wag was con considered steered bj its own era the most complete establishment of its it kind in the united states it stood at the intersection of forty third street and center avenue and waa was five and to feet long it waa was filled with new and costly mw and during the day 2000 people worked within lie lis walls the night shift numbered and all of them were in the building when the fire broke out it is in thought all escaped in safety although the time allowed some of the was visa exceedingly brief the fire origin led ted with an explosion of three lard tanks on diefin the fifth th ficor of the building the cause of the capio aton sion is unknown but the three tank tanks which were filled with boiling lard wint up wl with h a a roar almost in the fame same second there were a score 01 ol f workmen in the immediate vicinity 0 of the tanks and a number of them were burned by the scald ln t lard but none were seriously burnel burne 1 it was not a minute after the explosion before the entire fifth floor was amass a of I 1 despite the utmost efforts of the fire are the flames spread through the entire building and within an hour after the commencement of the fire all walls wells with the exception of that on antho the south were lying on the ground |