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Show NONE LIVE TO EXPLAIN Fearful Results of Chicago Boiler Explosion. THIRTEEN LIVES WERE LOST Scores of Employees, Visitors and Others Were Injured Huge Boilers Hurled Hundreds of Feet hy the Tower of tho Expanding Steam Adjoining Buildings Were Tom and Twisted Like Toys names Sprang From tho Ruins and Completed tho Work of Devrstatlon. Chicago Nov si -w ith a deafening re-port re-port a bol'er In Snlft I in i plant ex 1'lodc.t shortly after la o clock this mom tng Thhteen lives wore sacrllked and scores of employee visitors and others wero lajured Huko boilers were sent through tho roof of the boiler-house and hurled hundreds et tert Nvbolv within the boiler loom survived to lell the stor of the accident and It nm never be known what eniwed Ihe explosion care lul Investigation todaj however con v laced the experts thai the explosion wis the result of carelersnes on the i art of an cmplojee whose own lite also, was lost Rt ins looiv Kinn I Ive minutes after tlm explosion nothing noth-ing or the holler house but a pile or twln-nrt twln-nrt Iron l.rlcka on I mortnr remained 1 lanien sprang from Ihe ruins and Ihe spetialnrs realised that II would he Im-pniolble Im-pniolble lo nave the lives of those who were eautht in the nreik The exi lojlon was of such force that aljolnlng bjlldlngs wire wmkeii torn mid twlted llko ton Men women and bovs al work In a IJ in lag drparlnients were hurled through win itows lo the ground below Many of them os. aped with slight hniles I in most of the victims were hurt to such an extent tn it tt was necesnrv tn remove them to the hospitals The others wero-taken to their homes 1'ABfAl.TV LIST. The list of deal compiled b the police and ofiielnls of the eomiaii), follows II 1 Arnold colored taken to Merci hospllal whero he died James Owens colored A Itnchiig Klmeon Tate colored nremsn IV o O Connor sewer digger. I IV right colored fireman W I irks flremin 'ihomas Holmes engineer harlns ! ebb colored fireman. John llrnrs colore! flremsn Albert il jlushxcll purchasing agent Luban, millwright, died at Merci hospital hos-pital Schults millwright Tiin iNJcnnn V Tievors scalp wound i 1 rands contusion of right arm I Mlnnklc 11 c.rs of age messenger bo, hrnlled mav die M r Ash, frscturcd leg and scalp wound I 1 ranks bruised and burnM It lenible bruised and burned J I han Her s alp wound and burned W 1 VI ells fractured lg N L Oliver, burned about faco and bodj J P Cooper, burned on arms, faco and bod) I OIen messenger, burned about the leas and chest J Angus bruised ond burned J Ii Ogden burned ahout bod. Mosen Herrymsn I adl) burned 1 McArdle badl) burned 1 ouls lerk struck b) tllng brick Herman rrelaste, ejo knocked out 1 Nelndi rf hands and heal burned J Wren earpenler, f"ctured skull John IV aluli ptrtick "ylug brlcl s I II lHsh hll bs jrls I dnard tones Injure,. b fljlng bricks I eier Steinback, illntou la , struck b falling bricks )eiri,o It)an scalded by escaping st. am Miss Kllxsheth Cullen knocked down mil crushed In the rush fiom tho building build-ing ililthew I )neh cut on tho head A ermsn leg broken In Jumping from the second emry It wan soon rumored that from tut) to u hundred persona had been caught In the. wrecked building 1 tit- report ciimed great excitement and i response lo repented re-pented calls a dozen patrol wagons and as man) nmh ilapcea were sent from all parts of the !lt) l.xtra calls for lire en gliien followed and soon the fames were being fought fiom every si Ic woiuc or nt heun hi ot'v Whit" the fire was still burning police firemen nnd emplojees of the pncklng llrm beran digging In Ihe ruins Bonn llio mangle! remains of s man wero dlscov-erel dlscov-erel At the same time other rescuers were digging wllh desperation to rejeue severil victims who wero still alive Holies torn I raised or minrled were liken from the ruins and sent to the morgues A bo), scalded from head to fool mil Heeding from cuts and bruises, staggered towar I the office of eleneral niperlniendent loimg Ihe bo) wns Mr lounge i ersonal messenger The lad however, hid been so hadl) dlsilgurcd that Mr loung dll not ret-ognlro him Tin onius or tub cilsf Mnnv theories weio advanced ns to the respnnslhillii for tho dlsister. The Inspector In-spector declare! that th elolon had lecn lausel r cold water InJicted into the boiler, but a malorll) of the Invent gatnro held the opinion Ihst tho ace I lent bud I ceil cniKOil bv low water Notl Ing dennlte was learned however and as all ihe men In tho boiler-room were killed it H not tlkelv tho cuuse of the accl lent will ever be known lobs Nor ovi:r jsoow It Is not thought that the loss to Swift e; Ci will amount to mom than IjOnna J he ofnclils of tho rompati) declare that this will cover tho damage as nearly as thm are nblo to esllmie at tho preaent line Tho building In which the hollers wero locale I was the nnl) Minn turn to be ettliclv cleiiro)ed and It was a small Iri.tuie ono story high Ihe .lore houo which stool close to the teller hmo wns bull) damaged, a portion of lis walls being torn but It Is mil) two .lories high With tha exception of tho demolished heller home there Is no dim ago Hint cannot bo repaired within ten li)S |