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Show !L0HG DEATH ILL II 1111 SKTSCUPERS Building Operations in Chicago Direct Cause of Very Many Fatalities. CHICAGO. Nov. 20. Chicago, skyscrapers sky-scrapers during tho last year oxactcrl the heaviest toll of human lift? recorded in tho history of building operations in the city. Figures compiled in the annual an-nual death roll of the Bridge and Structural Struc-tural Iron Workers' uuiou, which was piibhsiieri yesterday, snow the increase in fatalities among mombejs of that craft to be surprisingly large. Of a total membership iu tho union of 1358 men, nearly JoG either lost, their lives or wore totally or parlially disabled as a result of their hazardous occupations. During 15)05 only twenty-six ironworkers iron-workers weru killed, about' the same number were so injured that they could not resume their trade, while tho number num-ber of minor injuries totaled less than eighty. Secretary O'Brien attributed the added mortality to tho unusually active season in the building industry. Speed required df thn men, he said, had caused them to become loss careful. Most of tho deaths were duo to falls from steel structures in the downtown district. |