| Show i CAUGHr IN INA AD DEATH ATH TH TRAP ThAP j. j ORTY ARE KILLED IN INI I J r TUNNEL UNDER LAKE kt fC Icy Waters Dynamite and Cutting Off of oft dj Air ir Supply Beset t Lives of Workmen Work Work- men in Submarine Workings for Addition tow to w l I Chicago's Waterworks System I Ix x i CHICAGO Tan Jan 20 About hont About forty men Inen lost their lives ives today in a n fire which d destroyed the intermediate frater ater supply crib one awl and a half miles from shore in Lake Michigan seven Forty suffering from burns hurns cuts or im- im in ill the thc icy waters into which th they y jumped to save their lives Jives were rescued r. r N At I 30 p. p in nl a telephone message to Fire Marshal Ol stated that twenty bodies had been recovered fromI from I the ill fated crib an and that a a. number est estimated at an additional ad- ad I twenty could be he seen scattered among the wreck wreck- i Page ge in in inthe the thc shaft leading from the crib down don to the tunnel I proper propel 1 I t The dead are arc supposed to be le imprisoned under the lib crib r i ili Death might have come either from fire firc smoke an explosion of dynamite stored there or 01 the shutting off of the thc air ail pipes In the thc t tunnel nn l tho men worked under pr Ir pressure Little hope was expressed at any f thorn thom escaped although this annot annot be he known until tho the wreckage Blocking lo tho the entrance to the tho bore boro is re re- moved loved Fire tugs extinguished the theAmes theames flames ames and an attempt to enter the tunel tunnel tun tun- nel el was begun Forty five f injured were rescue rescued by he he tu tug rd Nineteen cn of these were ro d at nt another crib and tho remainder were were brought to the thc City and taken t to hospitals IThe Tho fire lacked Jacked none of the tho elements clements Of I a l melodrama Sixt Sixty men twenty of them at work in the tunnel under the thc crib a few en- en mo in moving about tho structure ture and others asleep l in 10 their thell bunks 1 were suddenly confronted y by death death by byan in an explosion of nf a i powder magazine which immediately i wrapped the thc wooden structure in m lames flames Situation Is Hopeless ti I Tho Those o who were not killed or injured by ny the time tir first t fiery fier blasts rushed out of doors door to find finel no flO means of escape On every side were the time waters of Lake Lako Michigan i II its mis surface almost almOt covered ny hy great cakes of ice A mile mill and unil a h half distant i tant near the shore at Seventy Seventy- third street lay lav their only hope tho the orford It could be diml dimly seen through the tho haze of fo tog and smoke i v At SQ the show shore ollice the Ja last t J Jr 4 r word received from the thc crib T wa Wat tragic in its incomplete incomplete- i 1 T nc i f The Thc c crib b is ig s on fire For T Gods God's fake send help at nt once or orIe T we Ie will ill be burned alive Tho The v f i- i tu tug tug- J 4 t Then IbM the tho telephone wire WHO Jy oj- oj broke and the thc men on shore shorey oi o y 1 bend beard eard no more moore 4 J JIt j It Capt Edward J rd Johnson on of ot tho the tU tug hal ball u already hoisted anchor and the Jl rd little c craft was bucking the thc ice roc firemen in the thc hold hoM worked despe getting up a full u head of steam Scenes of Agony 1 From the c- c deck of oC the e boat Doat the crib T could U j be Je dimly ml lI seen Been n. n Black spots ap ap- ap aud and then disappeared into tho the water i below Some of the tho cued D d men ten were seeking to e escape capo b bv by Some of them wro seen scon to dins cling to o cakes of ice ico for lor a time and th then nien to ii appear r 4 T When hon Captain Johnson J Ct after r rr J 4 2 hat 1 Cat seemed to him an inter inter- 4 fr T i. 4 finable trip reached his goal t 4 h he saw a victims of ot the thc fire their 4 4 or 4 halt bair off and their skins 4 t blackened j struggling lin in m tho the 4 X water aBd ice icci Some of them 4 j. j 4 r fought against their rescuers 4 i dek Bly to sink eink unconscious on 4 I uC when Then forced aboard tho the tu tug 4 r t Then ben everybody in sight had 4 1 b cen taken ab aboard aboud ard a second cond to 4 muffled 4 explosion on was heard 4 i 4 probably markin marking the thc snuffing 4 4 t out under of more tho the crib ln lives s in the tun tun- 4 J. J Vied In Boring Tunnel It t The crib ib c is a t temporary structure in tf In instruction construction of a new tunnel int into the tho lAke ke for the thc purpose of adding to Chicago's o s 's s The malc material al made a C It used in the crib derand an easy easy- prey prcy for th tire fire row Pow boft 0 stored dynamite l th there used in blasting were cro ro r Ordinarily from froni sixty to five venty-five m u W were ot of f ci eight cm employed bt m Thc They worked Corked in Premises hours bours each catin eating on the and t Sleeping in tb bunks with h JA'S JAS the ph place was as provided pro A f tift the e hore tramway connected the 8 crib 3 with IIII rom Immense s heavy wire cables Ible and worked by n nerr carried When en tV fi fire supplies to the place wa was first t discovered a att tt Rn an n pints to was made hv by v. hy-v. R. R few daring but ot the i motive reach rench the thc crib in in the buckets mechanism t to Work rk and 1 tho attempt was waR abandoned tam Johno I r neared d the tho crib said Mid Cap Cap- j I their h 11 8 number 1 or of men men Clothing ln f run out nut or of the tho I Other J r Jump Into Inlo tho lake rapidly rope about any any- could IlnI n WI ater r Jumped Into O 0 to JK pre Int liIng I n nJ J LI drowned used boxes boxeR i ant and 9 bf be Umbel Limber f. f r l tl Ih I ln Wn Wa Jot withIn fin y fifty f t ot of th the down th the engine and be began t throwing out ropes and life lire belts to the themen themen men In the water W When Then en we wc bumped against the thc ruined I structure some of oC tho the men Jumped jumper aboard abeam but others were so o unnerved that we e had hud to chimi out and dra drag them aboard Still others cra crawled led from different differ differ- ent eat parts of oC the crib with their clothing a ablaze 4 r Ono One of ot these we wo were ero compelled t 4 T- T Tto to throw Into the tho lake e In order to 4 extinguish tho the lire In hIs hla cloth- cloth i. i ing ingVe We Ve tied a n. rope around him r h 1 and dipped him In time the water and r then timen putted pulled him back aboard the thc 4 t tug tup u It was while wo we were cre doing this that tho tim second cond explosion occurred and nd I backed tho the tu tug tup away We Yc could see seo no nomore nomore more moro Injured and departed d for the shore I Wo We 0 had forty five men aboard twenty of oC whom hom were Injured Pathetic Scenes Ashore By y the time tho the Morford had started on tho thio return trip three other tugs had pointed their nos noses s toward the time scene cene of or orthe the tr tragedy ed A scene of or desolation and 8 sorrow occurred on tho time shore shor The fam fum- am- am tIles of or many of oC the men working at the crib lived In Iti tho the vicinity Men women omen and children cried and sobbed hysterically call cally caily In frantic rantie anxiety for tor or tho f out In the lake lako Several women tainted fainted Mrs Frank Nolan wife Ie of tho foreman In charge of or tho time underground work ork at it the rib crib accompanied b by her young daugh daush- ter made a pathetic figure as sh she he stood with Ih the crowd crowl on the pier at Seventy Seventy- first street Oil Oh oh m my God tell me If he has died Continued on page pace 9 P. FORTY KILLED HILLED Continued from page 1 1 or If Ir he Is sa safe I cannot live again and a again aln Uk man many other women wom nyu en Mrs Nolan was clad In th lie tho thinnest Of or r house garments But Dut all ull al were covered cov coy ered erad b by the tho hea heavy coats o of tho the men who pitied their n condition Mrs Edith G. G Miller 11 r wife of or another foreman or an fainted tainted on the pier and fell to the Ice be beon ow She soon Ron recovered reco consciousness con con- s however ct but hut refused reused to Lo lea leave vo the thc place Little Litto Hope for Others In the throng thronS on tIm the pier wore were former employees who had worked at tho the Crl crib b They stated that the crew working In tho the tunnel had In all ni probability been killed Tho The exit exi from the tunnel Into tho crib was partly blocked b by wreckage w even en c un- un 1 After fi ri the tho tire fire ir tug had had quenched the tho flames firemen began gan pulling away tho the debris to ascertain conditions In the tunnel l Charles Rose one of those who were r rescued has a face ce blistered and bleed bleed- iD trig ing Ho lie lo told a graphic stor story of bow how ho he escaped Nothing but Flames Flames FJames flame famel nothing but flames dames fames He lie le said sait They were everywhere everywhere every o where all 31 in an instant instant I know knew every ery nook and aud cranny of tho the place and was able abo to save S my life but the other poor fellows there fellows there must have havo twenty five of of them died never died nc er never had a chance chanco to get awa away They either cither attempted to rush to the first floor foor or did not ot kno know on 01 which side the windows were s The were more fortunate however however how how- ever or than those in the tunnel who vrho I 1 am afraid have ha perished Those on tho the first hoar floor foor escaped by a miracle I and anti some other ether were on tho the second floor foor asleep There was no warning Everybody became frightened at tho the same instant as the flames le leaped at at us from over every pei direction There Thero wore were screams and yells els such as no nl one could describe e and everybody rushed madly toward what thc they thought were windows or doors We did dlf mana manage o somehow to pet get ge on I tho the pier on which the tho crib is built bUl A Afew Afew few fow of the men jumped lumped into tho lake while whilo others huddled together at tho the far fr end of tho the pier It I was only a afew afew a few minutes before the building was was gone gono Some Somo of the boards and timbers fell fel into the lake and were used as life preservers b by men mon who might have drowned otherwise I leo Ice Adds to t Peril Perl Tho situation of these was awful awful I counted a dozen of them They screamed for help until strength failed them Wind whipped the tho waters into a high sea and the crashing of the tho big pieces of ice Co together ad added ed to the danger Our first hope bone of rescue came camo when we wo saw paw the Morford start from shore in n our direction I I should say fray fay that forty men were men were asleep aseep when hen tho the tire fire fre started A A. story of intense suffering while in inthe inthe inthe the water was told by Charles Chares Googin Googins Googin's two legs were broken and ane he be was suffering from exhaustion and ex ex- A Swims With Wit Broken Legs It I was about 7 0 o'clock cock said Googin when I sudden suddenly I saw aw a mass of flame dame fame envelop tho the crib I preferred drowning to bein being burned to death I Jumped into tho lake ako and after swimming around a bit I grasped a cake of i ice c. c My Iy fn fingers ers were numb and I r was half frozen but desperation gave mo inc strength and I pulled pule myself o ga-o on oa the ice It I was only onh then that I felt fel an awful pain in both oth legs In jumping from tho the crib I had struck a beam and broken them but tho the cold wat water r had made mo inc 10 insensible to the tho pain I lay prostrate on the ice ico an and clung cIting to it t as ns best I could At times the tho waves dash dashed cd over oer it it and at other times it sank Hank but stilt still sti I retained consciousness and my position Tho The next thin thing I knew I was being thawed out in in tie the boiler boier room of the tu tug te Firemen returning from the tho ruined d structure this afternoon brought a ray ny ry of or hope in their expressed I b-I belief that If I any of ot the tho men had had succeeded In reaching the lie d depths of or tho the tunnel tunel thc they may have escaped Tho The alt air al' al pumping apparatus was wa declared to be he unimpaired and work was begun to force air Ir Into th the tho tunnel |
