Show OIL FIRE INJURES THIRTY SIX chicago explosion claims claim eight lives and property loss chicago eight men fire dead others aro are injured ten to so seriously that they may dle die and property damage Is unofficially estimated at as ow result ot of mondays explosion in ili the standard oil companas comp anys refining plant at whiting ind two huge steel stills burst the brick walls inclosing closing hi thein crumbled nud and a sheet sliest of burning oil and gas spread for a radius of yards trapping the night force five men were burned to death deat three died later in chicago hospitals and aind tile tho condition of 0 ten others Is serious most of those injured were caught in ili the shower of flame but others were struck by the falling brick anti and steel walls of the stills Elees sive pressure or a tiny leak of pas gas were tile the two probable causes of the explosion advanced by those familiar with the operation of tile the stills which are filled with crude oil under pressure in thi manufacture of gasoline had the explosion occurred half an hour later inter the day force of forty men would have been at work 1 |