Show INSTANT DEATH i 0 FOR FOUR MEN Twenty Others Fatally Injured and Two Score or More Se Seriously Seriously Seriously Hurt UPSETTING OF METAL POT HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT STAND STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD ARD STEEL WORKS 1 Butler Pa Oct 6 GAn An explosion caused by the upsetting of the metal pot in No 1 cupola of ot the Standard Steel company today caused the death of four tour men fatally injured twenty and seriously hurt twenty others Nearly all the men were foreigners The large largo wheel l plant was demol demolished demolIshed causing a loss estimated at The Dead Nick Dorna Nicholas John Unidentified man manThe The fhe he condition of the men injured Is pitiable Although still alive the fea features features features tures of a majority are mutilated be beyond beyond yond ond recognition The hot metal was showered over them causing horrible injuries Arms fingers and ears were torn off oft and a number of men lost eyes burned out Several men are in inthe Inthe inthe the hospital with their legs burned in into Into Into to a crisp Metal Pot Upset The explosion was caused by the up upsetting upsetting upsetting setting of a metal pot in the cupola which contained pounds of molten metal ready for casting A span in inthe Inthe inthe the pot broke allowing the liquid iron ironto ironto to spill over the wet sand An explosion followed so quickly that not one of the workmen in the building had a chance to escape Streams of the burning metal m tal poured out on the workmen some of whom were literally engulfed and literally cooked Twenty men near the cupola had every shred of cloth clothing clothIng clothing ing blown off oft by the explosion Many were burled buried under the wreckage and were not rescued for an hour after the catastrophe Buildings in the city from the force of the explosion shiv shivered shivered ered as s if It shaken by an earthquake and people rushed from their homes panic stricken Awful Suffering When flames flam s shot from the burning car works ten thousand people rushed to the scene blocking streets and in interfering In Interfering interfering with fire companies and am ambulances ambulances ambulances Through lack of room many of ot the injured were compelled to lie He for art an hour on cots in the street streetcars streetcars cars before r reaching the hospital At Atthe Atthe Atthe the gate gath of or the car plant men and women struggled to gain admission and were kept out only by b the assistance of ofa ofa z a force torce of ot policemen In the crush many women were injured and their cries of pain and anguish could be heard blocks away The car wheel plant was finished last year at a cost of The wrecked cupola alone cost The car works proper costing was in danger of de dc destruction destruction but the thc fire department soon had the blaze under control p |