| Show L 1 EXPLOSION Of AMMONIA PIPES KILLS FOUR AND INJURES MANY r Workmen in Armour Packing Company's Power Plant Are Driven Blind and Crazy by Deadly Fluid and Strangling Fumes r BITE JuTE AND SCRATCH EACH OTHER i Rescuers R Overcome by Gas Taken to Hospitals Many Survivors Sur May D Die Frenzied Laborers Fight Figl Nurses f tit i f Caring for foi Them f S Chicago Jan Jai 28 S. l' l blind and In Insane lIe by i CU fumes III CI with their hands and faces r I S ici b by one another's and am 5 by Iy one another's teeth t l six only n im-n reeled from u. u a. a narrow SJ S opening III from a pit lIlt Into tutu which a pipe broken by un an explosion in tho Armour ArmourS S J Packing acl 1 II COlli company's Ie refrigerating ling plant t S. S had n pouring the pungent S the they u ie lighting lIlIS' lIlIS to lo escape calle S Four CUIP M of uC fi were Wen r. r r ab abandoned ll o ed IJ by 1 th the lie IHU mad workmen worl n. n They S were CIO O horribly mutilated II their faces J being contorted d In signs of or o agony t. t the their It tongues ui ry bitten through and tho the fingers of the dead men were clutching their throats showing that I f cS they hail had tried to tear ear thorn thum oucH open in III rt rc their ma mad efforts effort to gut get lt air Into their d lungs s. s Of OC C who escaped live five ale au- I r to bo Lie dying TJI THIS g I IH IE ISA I n. n I Knitted lt Koch I Ho Ito to r S lolin Va Mi S SS S P. P TAMA lil I J 1 JA H. H 1 fo J Ii IC I J. J I ohu I I S cr Iu ill Iii I lutu j S rec e men with UJ J I jit ria II u il r H l t w t c runa h th 1 of ot th the Armour ArmouC P 1 thy Vf ul Ut orl III in t- t l s. s a t pl I bUI burst burM I. I ing ill lag a 0 on Ii 11 I thiu till Ing great al ti of ur Lit thi deadly lr liquid Into the i pit t almost almo t I rig I tin lie workmen Tin Tin- pipe which was as one of the main feeders ft-eders ers to tu a battery of if and carried ammonia under CI I ISO lO riO pounds pressure Six slits silts were opened by time the force fOIce of ot the cx- cx and und from all of these the stilling liquid poured with It Its 5 strong strang ling hug 1 miles S r H Was Cue Cool S Tho rho forces in Iii time the ine ens-ine room made madea madeS 1 S a O break for fOE the tile doors dool the en engineer gin eel alone staying lUll lung enough h to shut off cIT tho Limo pipes pipes' cs' cs supply b by a single Jc twist of 01 S. S time the I lever Ills action saved the lie men In the time pit almost t Instant death rho Tho men inca In tin the pit lIlt were In a amon more S terrible situation than were ivere the men inca who W were JC iC working on UIl time the above alove ha having only emily one ono II narrow a exit through which to make their escape escape- In hi their mad rush to get out of the time pit lIlt the time themen men lien blocked this exit and delayed delaYe their own escape While they ther were wele S clogged In this exit they began begun fightS tight fight S IllS Ing like mad men LI to lo escape from S their thell prison In Ill th lh their ie h struggles many wen were liori horribly fd by lv the nails naUl S of othier who welO scratching and omi biting their fellows In Iii their ma madness Patrol wagons from every station rushed to the tile s Hc scene ne lilted filled with police I S men inca f firemen re from flom nearby engine emigine lne houses and n ambulances were called from Crom the hospitals They Thoy I were t on the tho cehe tI and ami quickly went to work trying to rescue theman time the mon man lying In Imi the ammonia in the theS 1 bottom of or the time pIL imiL IlL of men who who S t S gathered about the place volunteered their services lecH to go JO limb Into luto time the pit to bring tho the men out outWork IC ClIl Work oll After time till battle at the exit most of uI tho time men forced Si way ay ay cut o of the hi pit TIlt and amid lute into the open ah ahi Se fI M n iM Mn they thoy reached th lit the all all' Li lIl amid th tilt the ib 8 hail had r I I r I Ir to go o back bach lute into the engine 10 loom tu to r drag them out The TIme rescuers hail had hard work In the dense demise fumes hut but with wet clothing wrapped about their heads s. s after making ii hurried mental surveys sUm N of their surroundings s were able aulo to grope about In the dense demmie e fum fumes q to the tho of the time victims of oC the explosion It Jt was US nearly an all hour l after time the e explosion c that the time last lastor of or the tho dead men were veme dragged J out from freimi the thc pit Ill Several eral Of r tilt the had h to be bo taken to 10 the time hospital for foi cm art after they had hud finished their helm heroic he lie- Iole work I Many of I those ho who were tlc were temporarily II Inline Two of umI the Lime rescued 1 men fought fiercely with the time policemen who had hind them under thick their care nn 1111 JI It IL required several citizens to aE assist tile Icel In III subduing them u Two others othel's attempted to escape from rein nun the thc hospital after the they had hind been hecim placed in lii cots with rallied nurses to watch over One Une of thc timeS theses e nurses e was vas seriously injured b by one cue of tho time pi- pi th t who u-lio troVe strove In tu escape cape and W was wan Ul detained b by lice her until assistance assistance- be le When hen her resellers IS I'S reached her imer j 1 1 hc hull had fainted an and hind had t to 11 be lul taken en caie U ire of oI by other nurses nurse Following this thiN incident male tunic nurses were CI detailed In of the thc pa- pa n ii of the thc survivors OIS were U for n a lon long time line |
