Show ARREST IS MADE iFft FTER rn BIG CHICAGO DISASTER TORCH r TAKEN AKEN TO MAGAZINE Negro Alleged to Have Been the Cause of Explosion and Fire That Snuff Snuffed d Out Lives of SL Sixty Seven Seven ty-Seven Men I II I I TWO MEN ARE DETAINED TO FIX RESPONSIBILITY Official Inefficiency in Chicago Is Believed to Be Primary Cause of of the Great Loss Loss of of Lif Life in the tile Ac Accident INQUIRY is BEI BEING BEIG G MA MADE EI I 0 J H- H 4 43 H 4 t 4 4 44 0 4 4 4 Chicago Jan Jun 21 Statements 4 f taken b by Assistant Chief of 4 I Police Pollee tonight from Crom f 4 ff f survivors of or the intermediate I f 4 crib tragedy tr fix Ox almost definitely 44 f 4 fi i 4 tho the tact fact that a n workman entered I I the thc magazine room with a lighted 4 torch three minutes before the f 4 44 4 fire Ore was seen Nathan t t 4 the negro blasting foreman who f 4 44 ff f 4 was rescued from the tunnel 4 44 4 shaft and who was unconscious 4 most niost of the day a In the South 4 Chicago hospital Is la charged l 1 by y 4 4 Logan Miller MilicI a n drill runner with f ff f 4 having carried the torch Into tho the 4 midst the and of ot dynamite powder pow- pow v 4 der In another part of ot Millers Miller's 4 statement which sup- sup f s1 r le o o me fv Suu o o fhi US Pf f J ur r MYo mt o V 4 tIvo o this tUl evening und and was ordered 4 4 detained tint unU further 44 4 4 can bo made mado 4 44 44 4 4 0 4 44 4 4 I 4 4 44 4 1 t 4 44 4 O H Miller Miner said In brief ho he ha had Just re returned returned returned re- re turned from tho tunnel with a a. lighted torch In his lila hand and anel was wag going to turn a switch that would set net oft off a blast below As 8 he he place place-I 1 tho the torch In hands and walked In to the magazine to gt g g. t more explosive Summers says the th torch was out when he gave ave o It to but that re-lighted re It and stepped to tho the magazine room saying h he hadnot ha hanot had hadnot not enough powder for tor a blast t ho was going to make then came out and went down In the sh shaft ft between the time ho had left the powder room and anel the start of ot the fire Torch lignite Ir Onnon Miller Summers or sa said hI know Just what hap hap- To me It appears was the last man In the powder r room H lit If- If took Millers Miller's unlighted torch and relit rout It and went Into the powder room Continued oil un lage l'age Three I I- I LOSES HER TEMPER I I I i I i i p IM-p w V wi I II I II I I I gt 7 S L w T r. r Y u-a u t i 1 l t. t j 1 tn- tn f oc w if the the pre id nt of the Engl jott sh 2 ae who was the victim of f a vi vicious tongue tong tie lashing iii ih inVa London L n z n restaurant by br a woman suffrage advocate ARREST IS MADE AFTER BIG CHICAGO DISASTER Continued trout from froU Pago Pao PalO One Miller mer also volunteered the theory th that t the torch Ignited cases gases c caused by a st a A remarkable condition was wac discovered discovered ered today while hUe city officials handed responsibility back and nd forth It I was learned that no building inspections had ever be been n made of the cribs no building permit had been issued or ot re required required required re- re that no pot police e or fire tre department department depart depart- ment mont supervision had bad ever been exer- exer cued cleed over tho the storing or use of dyna mite In the crib and that the only official Inspection ever made there thee was there was by an assistant city engineer en to see that the specifications of ot the contract were wore being carried out Coron Coroner r Hoffman Hotman tonight said that ht his best bet estimate of ot the number who tha died In tn the disaster by fire tre re and water is I. 67 None MOnO one of ot the injured died to to- to day |