Show COOKED TO DEATH Continued From Page 1 burned on arms It Is thought he will recover James M Welsh burned on body not badly will recover Charles Lane 3217 South Washington street hands burned not serious FLEW THROUGH THE AIR The great cylinder of copper crashed throuGh the east wall of the cooker room nnd on through the mill as though the wall had been tissue paper shot In an oblique and downward course through the air cut down n large tree in its flight scattered n pile of lumber ns If the beams and timbers hud been straws and landed 250 feet away from the start of Its flight BURIED IN RUINS Three of the four walls of the buildIng build-Ing were blown out Great gaps were rent In them from top to bottom pulling pull-Ing the roof with them and underneath V that mass of brick mortar beams and twisted machinery lies the mangled corpse of John Wilson which may not be gotten out for a day or two CAUSE OF DISASTER The cooker Is a steel contrivance about eighty feet by l twenty feet In diameter used In cooking the mashes I I Is presumed that n vacuum was formed and when the steam was turned on to cook todays mash the explosion followed HURLED THROUGH WALL The cooker was hurled through the north wall of the firststory structure n distance of 2HO feet The entire north wall of the distillery was blown down and the south and cast walls were also badly damaged WRECKAGE BROADCAST The wreckage was distributed all over the neighborhood The distillery management man-agement estimates Its financial lots at fully 100000 and it will be some weeks before the plant can be repaired sufficiently suffi-ciently to resume operations Thousands Thou-sands of people quickly gathered at the scene to assist In the work of rescue sccJe COOKED TO DEATH James McMunus an employee of the plant was Instantly killed James OKeefe was still alive when removed He was badly burned all over his body by the scalding steam and died a few minutes after his removal to the Cottage Cot-tage hospital Nell Powell the assistant as-sistant engineer of the cookerroom was then taken out He was Instantly killed k1edBOY BOY FATALLY SCALDED George Schaeffcr a boy 16 years of age was alive when taken out but died on the way to the hospital He was scalded all over his body SEARCH FOR SOwing S-Owing to the complete wreck the search for the bodies Is attended with < the utmost difficulty Several employees em-ployees are still missing and it is feared they will be taken out dead WAS NEW DISTILLERY Comings distillery was a comparatively compara-tively new house having been erected two years ago and had a capacity of GOOD bushels per day It was equipped for the manufacture of the finished product as well as wines and alcohol |