Show Of M MOLTEN N M METAL fIAt th l lID d ON 35 WORKMEN BY l FURNACE SeY tU h and y F our Missing the Latter Supposed to Have flave B Been en Cremated d din S in the Mass of Fiery Liquid Which 5 S Engulfed Engulf d Them vr Jan workmen ri were wor sey seven n fatally injured and thid are missing as the result Of an explosion tonight at the Eliza furnaces or of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Works Gas Cas accumulating at the theba ba base e of the furnaces became ignited In Ii the resulting explosion tons of mol molten molten ten metal was showered around the furnace fOr a t radius of rOlt forty feet over overwhelming whelming the workmen in a flood John Joh a Cramer Cram er Andrew eat h Gustave Kessler vere OIe killed rl The he seven injured are In the hospitals While the mill officials are inclined d to believe all of the missing men were not cremated in the molten n metal ing definite is known as to their where whereabouts whereabouts One Missing Man Appears Only one man George Knox has ap app appeared p ared sine since the e explosion He says sas everything happened so Quickly that he doubts whether the men escaped Chief Peter Snyder of the fourth fire dis district was seriously injured while di directing directing the firemen to extinguish the fire firc which followed the explosion Snyder fell from a thirty feet high receiving internal injuries While responding to the alarm alam a hose carriage was struck by a street car serIously injuring two of the firemen i 1 Tile rIle r the car were Wele shattered rv o women were injured Pitiful Scene at the Mill The scenes cenes about the entrance to the mill were vatI pathetic eUc when the f families of the victims learned of the disaster 1 Tomen men and children gathered before the gate and made frantic et ef efforts I forts to gain admittance Several of the frenzied women rushed upon the I officers and to fight their way Into the mill Children ran through the streets cryIng that father was dead I I Later Late it became necess necessary Il to call ad additional police e to forcibly escort the thc women and children to their homes homps rite rhe officials of the mIll refused to al allow allow I low an anyone one to enter the yard ard where the furnace is located Information was vas refused to newspaper men the officials sa saying ring that later they might issue a statement A heavy guard of foreIgn workmen was placed at the yard ard en entrance entrance trance and even the police pollee were power powerless powerless less to get past George Knox the o only lly man b believed to have escaped said to the Associated ted Press Outran Molten Stream The furnace is one of the improved style and of us were work worl worling working ing about n never ver thinkIng of an slon sion Suddenly there was a terrific roar and molten metal was thrown i eVer every place Streams o were rere run running fling ning ill ii ail I and I was cOn COil cOnfronted fronted Willi an awful death unless I could run faster Laster than the metal cOuld uld travel I dont know what happened to o the other men I did not see any of them after the explosion If they did not run and amI fast all are buried under six feet of molten metal Charles Bennett a yard r brakeman who was passing near the furnace on a freight train when the explosion occur occurred occurred red gave a graphic description of the disaster Believes All Perished I Our train was right near noor the fur tir nace ace said Bennett When Then the met metal l poured out of the furnace over Oel the ground the men running for a place of safety To the right of the furnace I sn sav w a party of ten men all of them running wildly and theIr cloth clothing clothing ing u a mass of some of them had been injured when the ex cx explosion as th they y could hardly run and several ot of them tripped and S fell The hot metal rail 1311 over 01 them in ina Ina a moment Just at this time a 3 second explosion occurred and I again looked to the right of the furnace furnice for the men but I could not set see any an of them and andI I believe all were burned to death My train was in th the path of the metal and I was compelled to uncouple the train and signal signa the engineer to pull lUIl ahead I |