Show TEN Mt MEN WR WERE BURNED TO T Explosion Occurred in Warehouse a Of rr Corning Distillery Com Corn Company Company pany at Peoria BARRELS OF WHISKY Soon Became a Seething Cauldron Caul ron Thousands of or Steers Perished In lit Burning Fluid Peoria III m June Julie 4 An explosion which In the tho ware avaro warehouse house of ot the tha Corning Distillery com corn company pany lany pan this afternoon completely wrecked tho the bUilding The zulus ruins Immediately took lire and communicated to adjoining buildings which tero burned to the ground Ten T n men InCa were Well burled beneath tho rufus and aiti burned bunted to death Hix others therl were seriously Injured Tho The loss less Ils on buildings noel whisky whiRl emil spir spirits spirIts its stored will up At 1 7 tonight tho the Ore lire hind hod spread to lu tho the stockyards district where inhere a II doz dozen i en cn largo hinge cattle burns barns hilled 1 with cattle I toE for market were burned bunted TillS TUn Fred Tred K Ie Knoll Louis Behrend I Too Jon John Louis Six William Finley 1 Jr u N M Dl 11 Growl Crowl i John I m Field TIm TIlLS Werner cruor I 1 Vorner erner Elmer 1 T I n Ii Marshall James M Miller Mile 1110 Tho Iho containing In the tho of ot barrels of ot whis whisky hl ky kr Instantly a seething cauldron caul imil It 11 known that no tin one Inside thin big bl could live a Tho The In crushing time tho small smaller er cr structure nearby set net that on lire tire and 1111 1 tho the whisky from frito the tho bursting bar barrel role rel Hooded blooded everything In that section Lunge run rim toward the tho river and In iii a n short time limo hero thero was a n foot font of ot whisky In tho time pens lonA ea oust t of ot tim the warehouse It wan burning fu tu furiously and amid tho the cries crieR of at tho steers chained fast were Ivere pitiable to 10 heir hear Their Fleir distress hasted but hul n a row ow mo lie moments ments however for tor they were soon dead cn either cither rousted roasted or suffocated by h the fumes They wore Ire tho the property of ot otI Deall I r of ot Chicago Tho The two fermenting houses ivero speedily food foo 1 for tor tho the Ilam They were of or lingo dimensions nill both holh of ot them itero practically destroyed Tho The Humes threatened th the mill and elevator Just across tho the track where tho the costly ma mn machinery chinery Is III Installer However till thin Urn tire men macli a II winning tIght there A high wind wan blowing hI tho the In inthe tho the direction of ot tho the Monarch distillery For Kor ur a 1 time It t was feared dIned that tho the lire would sweet the tho river riverbank riverbank bank However tho thin work of ot tho the tire fire firemen rl men m n began to tell and at It 7 tho the fire firo seemed d under control Elmer Ilmer Hogan at work In tho the warehouse when tho the fI came caine Ho lie was washed hed out through I s break hrcak In the tho building by b the tho big hiI stream of ot whisky and carried carrIe toward the river n a lie dis distance tance lains of lit nearly 75 8 feet tet before being lodged lodge Rl lIln 1 u II fence train from which thich ho lie managed to escape before the tire fire over oer overtook took him He lie Wits was fo CO o badly Injured that ho lit h cannot recover Fred Prel Knoll saul and William Finley who vho had of ot the tho tacit men tn employed In hi this department had Just JURt left lett the tho building when then the tue explosion nod collapse came Knoll was IM crushed to the tho earth amid almost Instantly the tho place ho In heal had gone Bono down was 1111 enveloped In It Is III believed that Ihal tho the government men lien havn nil fill escaped The Till 15 11 of ot whom worked In tIm tho warehouse had completed their work anti gone gono aMut 2 In tho tie afternoon There Thero were wert three throe government storekeepers P rl In time the building hut but It Ji Is reported all nil ot or thorn thom got Irot out safe They were Abe Abc 00 Fda berg berIC Henry Henr Wagner agner end enS J it M Miller Warehouse e H n where the tho explosion lon that did cud the damage occurred was vas an ami frame covered with corrugated Iron It 11 was lIIS more ore than hiatt 20 fe feet t in Warehouse A anti and the tho cistern cl roof wall wa waa as ft a 1 brick building OO feel f It contained In tho the neighborhood of or gallons of spirits In the tho two 0 fermenting f rooms room which sere feet tNt were 18 Ii tubs title with ft n capacity ot of 1000 1010 hll hIll of or mash hunch They item wro mill all tilled filled d anti contained about SOOt gal III Ions lonn of tf spirits each All Ml this waa stas burn burned ed 0 1 edAt At tit tin ruins still blazing emil and it probably will be he two or el three dIu before the flames aro entirely exhausted I The lime hl fact tat that every bit of or t Inflammable material immaterial was wall thoroughly saturated with tIme the Ing liquor 11 11 u 01 It ii t almost Impossible to extinguish ishi the blazo blaze until All nil time wood Mood has line loon boon hlll Firemen n kept ut least 40 O of or wafer on In the lint hot It I III A f n A i 1 time the cattle burns are tho bodies belies ot of 1000 heath head of ot cattle all nil hue tho cattle met death so fo suddenly nb tint they till did not move mOle out lilt of ot their hid tracks AH As 11 the Ihl torrent of burning liquid rushed down hilt hill mul enveloped the tho barns It divided Itself It olt Into him numerous branches m which lowed down the Ih aisles amid ami canned tIme the Instant death donth or of ivory every with which It II In III contact Tim The walN of ot th thu two 1110 are aro still standing but bUI till thin times are roofless t and nod nero GUlt gutted tl bir birthe b the Ihl flames IIAmes |