Show f EXPLOSIONS PLO IO KILL f T rf Purifying Tanks fanUs in hi Chicago Ex picnic Spreading and nd Destruction nest ruet 1011 MEN DREADED TO 10 f APPROACH They TIlt Were Werl earful the Two Dig of or Feet Of or Gas GIllS Would flo 00 Off OW FAMILIES THEIR HOMES WhAt Valuables Valuable They roey Could Coul Sew F r Around Win Vin dD Were WrO nr keu Chicago Nov No ma JaIl tanks tanke in th the h Mg big bI railroad ga gas a charging nation at street and inti South Chicago avenue exploded today This afternoon eight dead dad bodies of ot had bul been removed fron fro th the ruin and It wan Mid isid 1 1 that bat about 10 more were mIssing The Thc tanks tank were of or th the style tle attached to railroad our ears art for tor lighting purposes purpose Eleven EIven of or the tanka exploded In rapid succession n and were followed at short Intervale interval by the other tanks tank The Th fire spread pad among property properly of the People Oa a Light Coke company and threatens to 10 reach ach the large lam storage tanks of that Policemen were w sent aunt about for tor n to mill mil warn iris Iff people to move InO from their homes hornet To Po prevent the explosion of at th the gas ga gaIn In th mammoth tank lukl Superintendent Wells ordered the tho waste wate pipes pipit opened These fhe pipes run outside of th till the plant and nd In a I short abort tim the big tanks lank were welt discharging th tb thu gas Into the tho air all This was w a dangerous undertaking but butIn bUtIn butin In was AS changed and proved successful preventing A larger destruction ot 01 property Aero Acre South Chicago avenue directly opposite the gui gas storage torre building was wasn n ft t large shed stored atom with coal COlLI used In the manufacture of ot the gas Tho The huge hUBe coal title pile was Ignited and ond In a Q few t fe moments was Willi b control danger of 0 l the larger tanks exploding had been reduced to a mini minimum minimum minimum mum With nIth soy sev several eral assistants entered nt the grounds and shut hut oft off the supply su ply pipes pipe front from tho the ruined building to the lb large larg tanks He lie will Milt It was rae almost miraculous that the UtI lire fire had Imd not nol entered the tho larger luger tanks lank Many lives are believed to have been lost host and n a number of ot men were Ire probably fatally tot lly Injured In tn Inthe inthe the explosion of ot five 1118 small email purifying tanks Inke leased d by the tho Peoples People Oas Gee Coke company at al street and lId South Chicago avenues today There were e from tram 13 12 to W 10 0 explosions It ItIs ItIs Itis Is reported that a It brick building con eM containing tithIng five tanks lank and twenty work workmen workmen men completely collapsed burying them and crushing them to death The Th explosions explosion welO so forceful that for a of ot halt half ha a 1 mile windows window were wre broken and wells of buildings thrown out of plumb For Vor tear fear that the explosions explosion might continue and cause CRUll the explosion of the two Iwo big tanks tank which hold millions of at feet teet of at gas gal no one would venture near hear the thu ruins ruin of ot the plant Calls were Ire sent for tor patrol wagons and ambulance to every station on the south side 14 and aM a alarm alum of ot fir Ar wa WU sent lent In itt At t the first explosions explosion many of ot th Ih the mIo 1 In th tb plant lant fled lied to 10 the tha street They escaped with Ith slight J living In the vicinity deserted their homes borneo and storekeepers lilt left ft their stores Io l all 1111 fleeing Ing with what valuables they thea lilt caud selas IH One of or the workmen after Arter th deon daa dI I ter tr t r expressed a belief beller that at least 40 to of at his hI companions lost their lives Eight Bight bodies have hare been removed from the ruin ruinS One Ou On waa through a n awall awall wall wa feet away fn from the building In which he was ws at It work Ho lie waa was crushed but may live liv The explosion may mar have hat ha bern been n by a search arch for tor leaks leke In supply tanks mad made by one of th the Thi cause u of ot the rapid explosions e wits wui u the th presence of ot M ft small tanks tank In Inthe inthe the Ih to These Thle tank tanks were Merc each stored toted with iW pounds pound to tho thu th cubic cubia Inch of at space of powerful gas gan The tanks tanka ore are used to place beneath sleeping oar cars oarl and nd other railway cars car carand and will wilt supply on one car ear with light for tor six h months The It n tanks tank had be charged and were In readiness for r r at attaching taching to oars oar Building avenue within a of ot the place were so eo severely shaken shake hat thet many will VIII no longer be bt fit tit for tor occupancy A two In story atory building at al street and Greenwood grunts avenue wee totally wrecked mIk |