Show FATAL FIRE IN A REFINERY SEVEN LIVES LOST GIRLS AND FIREMEN BEING the armour lard I tard nt at tho th volon union stock lards chicagus Clil chic caKo agIs la turned horned had and siren here ilu ard have hatow row I 1 hpe during the progress of a fire which the lard of armour Compan yIn tile the union stock yards Chicago seven seventeen teen people were injured seven of theno them in a manner which will probably cause death in a short time the loss of the company Is estimated by its ita at and with al all I 1 tile the chances lu favor of tile the latter figure there a number of accidents but by far the largest number of those w who bo were hurt met their injuries by tile the falling failing of the hog iun way upon which they were standing to obtain a better view viem of tile the fire I 1 ahe lie lard ret refinery nery had just been completed and was considered by its owners the most complete establishment of its kind in the united states it stood at the intersection of forty third street and center avenue and was five stories storie high shigh and 20 to feet long it vas tilled fillod fillo d with new and costly ma chinery and du ring the day 2000 people 1 e worked within its ails the night shift numbered and all of them were in the building when the fire broke out it is thought all escaped to in safety although tile the time allowed some of them was wad exceedingly brief the fire originated with an all explosion of three laid tanks on the fifth floor of the building the cause of the sion aion is unknown n but the three tanks alch which were filled with boiling lard avem went t up ath a roar utmost almost IQ in tile the same second beconi chere were erea a score of workmen in the immediate vicinity of the tanks and a number of them were burned by the scolding braiding lard but none wei a seriously burned it was wai not a minute after tile the explosion before the entire fifth floor was a mass of fl flames ailles despite the utmost efforts of tile the fire department the flames spread through the entire buildings and within an houi after the commencement of the tire fire all walls with the exception 0 of that on the son south th were ere e ly lying lug on the ground |