| Show FURNACE EXPLODES NINE MEN Were at Work on Top When Accident AC id Oc OCa Bodies odies Burned to Cinders Were W cle Slavs Slays and Poles Po Pa IWo Ioa T o nn an explosion stun sion of or uno in hi thu tho lie Boho Rolo furnace of ot Jones Jonen Laughlin near HOur street eUcel this tila city at mit 62 G 6 2 this tim is morning nine ii I men wore ioro burned to death mind and nd IWo badly LIlly injured rime Tho damage to the thc Ih plant will Wilt amount to 10 Tim bodies of or the timo victims were nit all to 10 tho thu fila w Wl iro ro o tor tr 1 mid and The Flue dead Identified thus thull far tar are as 18 r Joseph Jut h Joseph Michael 21 Id 26 years yearn old olti loaves a n wife lie timid child II ib lUl l rY Michael 11 aged 35 Unan d I nn M t tl leaves l widow In iii Hungary i iJohn John Kochanko l Johh J hh Bubo Babe eorge o Tile The uie nt a their homes have not yet et el Leon boon Thu three nt ut Mercy hospital itt hr no so badly burned that they the cannot Ittu Ilu not HOt expected to survive Five mo employed ll near neill the tho t Ito are arc counted for tor and It ID to nut not known whether er or hey have havo Tho occurred In onto ono of ot till big J ig The Flue men inca wore at win I at nt the to top tOIl of or tho Iho tu over ISO ibo feet from the thu ground thio Ih gas gall which lucid had In Itu the furnace exploded 1 timid tons tot of ot molten metal m cinders mind and slag were ivere thrown thron over them theta They Flucy made a II rush Iu h for tOl lie tho th elevator but hut It had bind gono down anti ana there was vate nu no escape The fite cries ot the tho Injured broke Iii stillness HI which had hall ovum over 00 tho ho place when whan the tho fury rUlY lit bf if the thu explosion lon and lire fire hail had abetted abated Firemen carried the charred anti and misshapen masses of ot humanity to the lie morgue wagon Thomas and Arthur Young managers of ot tho tue plant said Batch that hunt only three tillers fillers work on top of or tine furnace hut but bu this thui morning on on of at the th heavy h Iron wagons W used In Ink InkIng Ing 1111 tip lip ore not got and timid tho Iho thru fillets fillers sent Honl for Moro men mun wore wert sent up until tile the number reached fourteen U it was Vall they tiley Were wert trying tyIng to got the thc WI OI loaded lon ed that the thc fatal explosion e plo lon took place Kye I c wItnesses witnessed say 91 there was sAs a 11 loUd hoOch lo d dr report r port and the tho heavens were Awe IU II with n II great of or tame showing the th men monon on top tea to of or limo iho furnace running about gesticulating wildly Tho The flames anti hot metal nl looked like a n volcano In notion Five of or the tho m uteri n cro blown off orr tho the top Of If tho lie anti these theno ara thu tue that ore or still living The Tho others hung on oil the tho rail sonic on eu the ilia outside and nomo n fl tho tue until I I their clothing won Willi ort oft and IUd their w TO rc bUrnel off orr They then than tell fell to 10 tho the rout root of ot tho mill mUI dead Seven Bevon of or victims Avero w ro found dead 1 on them the platform of or tho Ito cupola These Veme ei denuded of ot clothe by tho flames ll and amid 1 their belt bodies were burned burnett t to tl u II crisp crill Two TAVO of or ortho the tho dead found fOil nil In tho Ito stockyard of the plant yards front from the fur lint furnace mince nace ivery bono bone In their bodies seemed I to hay havo hl VI bum been broken All Alt of or those killed and Injured were ivere and ant IoIe The lite nie to gIve their names s but sent for tor or George nn aim who went to ho hio morgue and Identified some samo of ot he tM vic victims tims tini Over two tAvo tons toils of ore oro coke colo and uM nib hut hot some somo weighIng almost pounds rained down on avenue and 1 many IMn pedestrians ran Into houses houe and for tor protection A car panning just juat at lit tho the tim tims the th gas trail let go 0 Tho Tito coke C nod other ma mn material tailing falling on the tho car ear which hal had passengers aboard caused cause a tl panic anti ami filthy Jumped off ocr None Nona of the lie passengers was wan In tho the In Injured lured jurld but Jut nil all vere badly Whan Whon the th explosion ll occurred oc tIme tho men tinen In itt the plant became paulo panic ant and Into tho the street rho Tha men loon In en thought the tha entire plant watt doomed d dAll As All soon Roon as the tho smoke lint had died away the Dr J W Me 11 Kennan 1111 throe physicians summoned cinch and they attended the thc In tnt Injured jureti three or 1 of whom were Vero to 10 the Mercy hospital nH ris noon ns as S lances arrived 1111 Tho people residing aboUt al the lie furnace anti for Cor louks on un either aido Aira 1 badly retired They from homes and ennui n ii few i after litter time tho re to report report port had Bounded throughout t I Soho Boho of cf people gathered red about the tho Women Wom husbands vere employed lo In 11 this tha plant whose sons onn worked there mimi sisters brothers worl In III U plant term form formed ed ci part pari of ot tho tine crowd With tears calli In their eyes they waited bated to learn leant who sim wore victims of o othe the tho catastrophe Borne Somo Were fated to hear lear sad arid news for or among tho the crowd WWI tero wiveS or relatives of some of ot tho tue dead deal When hen they learned of or tIm tha or of their loved lover ones onca they lucy th y burst burnt Into tears and nul ome some of ot them are uro on tho the verge ven o pf mental collapse It U la IR repotted that thc tine lon was caused by bya a ti slip ship In tho the |
