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Show DEATH IN A FIEKY FURNACE. THIRTY-FIVE PEOPLE BELIEVED TO HAVE MET DEATH IN A CHICAGO FIRE. Man Worfclnft on Ihe. eleventh Floor Unable to Muke Their Knenpe. nnd Met it Horrible UmUi Number of Dead Mot Vet Known. Five men are known to have lost their lives in n fire which partially destroyed de-stroyed the plant of the Chicago branch of the Glucose Sugar Refining uompany, situated ut Taylor street and tho Chicago river. The list of the dead will certainly be much greater than five and may resell as high as thirty. The estimates run all the way from that number down to ten. Only one of tho five men whose bodies have been recovered has been Identified, The fire broke out with an explosion In tho drying house, which is seven stories in height and stands close to the main building of the plant, which Is fourteen stories high. A third structure Is four stories high. The two smaller buildings were destroyed and the larger building was badly damaged. The fire spread after the explosion with such rapidity that It was Impossible Impos-sible for the men In tho upper stories of the drying house to make their escape, and it Is the number of men believed to have been at work on the seventh floor that causes the uncertainty uncer-tainty In the list of dead. Some of the employees who made their escape soy there were twenty or thirty, nnd others say there were not more than ten at work when the (Ire broke out. Whatever the number, nil ure deud. Four men leaped from the upper up-per floors and all met death. |
