Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 12, Hammond, Lake County, 5 July 1921 — Page 1

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1BLE EXPLOSION AT WHITING ram wxatht Generally fair tonight and neadayi much cLuige 1b te-mp-rj-.tnr SUfmd Ty Cumin Jn Simmou ax.4 W. Hamxaond 5c per montb on street and bows stands 3o per copy. VOL XV., NO. 12.TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921 HAMMOND, INDIANA A tf HW r.

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Comes To The Aid Of His Friend, Bitty Rose Of Hammond In Cedar Lake War. fSPEC!L TO TH TIMES OKOWN POINT. IND., July ! Billy Rose, Lake county recorder, is keeping faith with his neighbors at Cedar Lake. When Mr. Rose moved his family to th beautiful Lake county resort he promised to keep It free from even "the appearance of evil." He enlisted the aid cf County Treasurer Ralph Bradford in the undertaking and on Saturday evening the first clean up vu made. County Treasurer Bradford has written the following signed statement cf the affair: (BT R. B. BRADFORD) On Saturday evening, as carried in the news columns, the treasurer and rocorder of Lake county made the rounds cf the resorts at Cedar Lake, observing the conditions there, and obtaining first hand evidence of the violation of the law by playing on each cf the fifteen slot machines which we found there. Upon obtaining tha evidence, we immediately reported the facts to Chief Deputy Charles J . Daugherty, who was in charge of the sheriff's office during the absence of the sheriff himself somewhere In the east. Upon the statement of Mr. Daugherty that It "was necessary to have affidavits and search warrants. These vera made cut and riled by Sir. Rsse and myself, and after the considerable delay which was occasioned In making out these papers, the sheriffs c ft ice, accompanied by the treasurer and recorder and a big truck, went to the lake. Ten machines were seiaed. The balance having been spirited away to Hammond by the elot machine king, and in several Instances poorer and worthless machines with broken handles having been . substituted t-T some of the better machines. The sheriff haa served the warrants against the owner and exhibitors cf the machines, and they will be tried In the criminal court. Resort owners have already raised the hus and cry. which will be echoed ty others of the lawless element, that the treasurer and recorder are trying to run everything, and trying to make themselves out as sheriff, prosecutor. Judge and Jury. 'We are not at all alarmed by such batting, nor the silly threats being made. A short time before the election last November a determined fight was made In some quarters against the republican ticket and certain candidates thereon cn the ground that if elected they would not enforce the. law. At that time both the candidate for prosecutor and for sheriff made their pledge in the presence of other candidates that if elected they would enforce the law. and such a pledge was especially made with reference to Cedar Lake. Kcting on these pledges end with the full knowledge and approval of the officers of the republican central committee. the present treasurer, and other candidates on the ti'ket went to many persons who were eppoting the republican ticket or parts cf it on the grounds above stated and give our promises, that if they would support the republican ticket, that we would sea to it personally that the law would be enforced, and that we would personally file affidavits If neceteary to do so. A week ago the recorder and treasurer in compliance with those promises complained to the sheriff and prosecutor against conditions st Cedar Lake, where the county, recorder is now living with his family, and the warning to obey .'i law -was passed by those officers to the resorts at Cedar Lake. They did not see fit to heed the warning, and Mr. Rose and myself simply fulfilled the pledges we had made prior to election.. In these serious times, -when o many are out of work, no justification can be given by any citizen for the placing of wap.es in slot machines instead of savings banks, even If he could Justify i at any other time, and for the beauty spot of Lake county at Cedar Lake, now built up by pretty homes, to be longer disgraced by crunks and prostitutes and slot machines is not going to be tolerated. Both Sir. Rose and myself are entitled to and we ask for the entire support of every republican official in Lake county, as well as that of every decent citizen who wants the law enforced . Both Mr. Olds and Mr. Kinder are entitled to the public, not private, support cf good citizens, and right now it should be both publicly and privately given. Respectfully. R. B. BRADFORD. Treasurer Lake County CELEBRATION WAS COSTLY "INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, July 5 Thirteen lives lost and a score or more persons injured was the toll today of Fourth of July accidents In Chicago and vicinity. Two persons were shot to death, five were drowned, five were killed in automobile accidents and a boy was i.led in a fall from a window.

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Four drownings took place over the Fourth of July period In the Calumet region. Little F.-inc'.s Myron, nine years of age, lest his life Saturday because he did not obey his mother. Tha lad s lifeness body was taken f.-"m the Litt'.e Calumet river at the Burnham ave nue bridge shortly after 5 b'clock in the afternoon. Francis left his home at 5S State street at about 12:0. his mother. Mrs. Mike Mulligan expecting him to go to church. Instead, the lad went to the river with. a few companions, seeking relief from the oppressive heat. The boys plunged into the water and a few minutes later Francis, to the horror of his companions, threw up his arms and sank. Efforts to save him were futile, as he had stepped off into seven feet of water. Searcher dragged the river in vain for the body, and were successful only after several hours' effort. The remains were removed to Burn's morgue. Funeral services were held at the A'.! Saints church yesterday morning at 8.30. and the body was shipped to Aurora, II!., for burial. Joseph Lonek V5;9 Ave- South Chicago, was a victim of cramps when he went In bathing at Wolf Lake shortly after having eaten a hearty meal. He sank before aid could rfach him. sitxs orro lake "Wayne Matthews. Z2, Whiting, died at Illinois Central hospital 1b South Chicago of injuries received when he dived into the lake near hla home. BABY DBOWNTD AT SUITES William H. Sallwasser. construction engineer for the American Bridge Co. iOS S. La Salle St., took his family to the. Indiana dunes yesterday. "William H., Jr.. 3. wandered away to go wading at Waverly Beach. Later he was found drowned. FATAL SHOOTING AT DALTON. ILL Clinton Harper, eon of Tom Harper, village president cf Doiton, 111., south west of Hammond, early today shot and probably fatally wounded Mrs. Homer Davidson, according to the police, and then shot and killed himself. Jealousy is believed to have been the motive. Harper recently was awarded 3,000 as compensation for the loss of four fingers In a railroad accident. He Is said to have spent a large part of the sum paying court to Mrs. Davidson . According to police reports. Mrs. Davidson left her husband several weeks ago, and had been sharing an apartment with a woman friend. The shooting occurred in tMs apartment after a quarrel. BITES THE HAND THAT FEEDS HI SPECIAL TO TH T1MES1 CROWN I'OIN'T, Ind , July o. Mrs. Frank Echertllng. living on a farm east of Crown Point, had an experience with a tramp on Friday morning which she would not care to repeat. The fellow -appeared at the Echertllng home on the evening previous applying for work. Mr. Echertllng told him that he did not need any help but had a neighbor who wanted a farm hand and he would get in touch with him. He invited the man to stay at his horns over night, which he accordingly did. helping with the chores night and morning. The next morning, after the morning's work had been done. Mr. Echertling left for the station to take the milk. No sooner had he gotten out of fight when the tramp began h'.s nefarious work. Going up stairs he got a sheet end tied it over Mrs. Echertling, binding her to a chair and began ransacking the house, taking a diamond ring and everything of value he could find. He then cut the telephone wires and made his get away. . Mrs. Echertlir.g managed to get to the kitchen and cut herself loos-. A posse of farmers soon gathered, but n- trace of the scoundrel could be found. HARDLY, THEY SAY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. Ind., JUiy 5. A great deal of amusement was oceassioned at the courthouse by the story which circulated while the grand Jury was in session, that deputy sheriffs burned a number of a'ot machines on the lawn. Since when, ask the county officials, did iron become an Inflammable material? Slot machines, you know, are made of iron and steel. They simply won't burn, and that is all there is to it. And .who saw the fire, anyway? Eye witnesses are scarce. The county treasurer has not as yet received any of the money taken from th slot machines captured in the raid on Ray Ogden's place near Hammond over a month ags. According to lawit must be paid over to the school fund.

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ARTHLJi FEOHL cf the i . Co. has been spending a vacation at Hamlet, Ind. ATTT. JESSE WILSON"" took family to Rensselaer to see a Fourth cf July celebration. the real NO celebration nor nothing for Dr. T. W. Oberlin this week. He has six different dates with the sterk. THE Lutheran churches staged a big auto parade to their annual rrk picnic and Fourth cf July outing yesterday . This was the hottest day ef -the season. The thermometer in The Times composing room registered 10 degrees. JOSErH RECOR, Hammond superior court reporter, spent the Fourth celebreting In Rensselaer where they had big doings. MORE fireworks were exploded In Hammond yesterday than in many a preceding jear. It was a big day for thu dinmakcrs. FAMOUS books The Autocrat of tha Breakfast Table. In Hammond it is the kitchen sink. The motto la: 'I shall not flow." ALL that was needed yesterday was a balloon ascension and a couple ' of runaways to make it a real old fashioned Fourth of July. BANK Examiner H. M. Johnson came to spend the Fourth with his family but was summoned by wire: to Indianapolis before he had gqt eat down. YOU could tell the war was over yesterday by the way the old boys smiled and exchanged greetings in unguarded German, culte like the olden times. ATTT. FRED CRfilPACKER (rejoices that he got iy another Fourth without the loss of any of his fingers. "It wasn't like the good old days," said Fred. EBEN BUNNELL, for some unexplalnable reason, has finally deserted the Ford for his own use and now glides around in a huge broad chested WUls-St. Caire. TO the list of fellows who haven't heard about the war being over add the dealers In fireworks whose prices still range from three to five times the pre-war rates. MANY people have gone out of their way to speak of the quick work of The Times in getting the fight extra on the streets In euch short order after he fight, ' THE display of fireworks at Harrison park last night made quite a hit wth the Homewood residents. who were able to eit on their front porches and enjoy the sight. THE latest dope on the Country Club situation and It Is authentic. Is that the Cook County Forest Preserve Commission has been given an option on the Country Cub site. WHEN" the reporter left this noon, "Soup" Anderson was in the throes of a speech at the Kiwanis club, which was pointing to one ending please let me write you some insurance. THE Glendale Derby, the speed classic supreme, was jimmed up considerably last night by the dispay cf fireworks there, which blocked the course in a most alarming manner. THIS hot weather haa hit the golf hard at the Country Club. If you fellows only would try it. you would find that the course is about as comfortable place as you can find, t. MISS BLANCHE X. NIXON of the Hammond schools is an official delegate from Lake county to the sessions of the. National Educational Association convention at Des Moines, la. THERE'S no talk of hard times around the Overland-Fudge agency these days. During the month of June the company dfilvered twenty-two cars and took orders for several more. AFTER a. month of rest, t'te fnterest in the Hohman street road race was revived last night when a big, maroon coupe, evidently a special job, broke the track record from the loop to Elizabeth street. OUT of the swarms of bathers who cove-red the Hammond beach with a colorful array of bathing uits over the Fourth, not one accident occurred for which let us be thankful, and give al credit to the management. OSCAR EORCHERT is nominated as the best little fight result guesser in the city. He picked Dempsey In the fourth. Oscar whilfj standing under a sunshade on the "four corners" this morning accepted the nomination. POST card from W. G. Fsxtor, dated June IS shows he has just started south from Edinborugh, Scotland: Have just left this beautiful city and now in the scenic lake region of Old England. Nothing dry but the weather. All fine and havtng grand time. Soon be in London.'" G. B. SHEERER. Norman Bridge and Dr. H. E. Sharrer are fishing in Devils Lake. Wis. Bharrer says there is no limit to them, only you have to swim back so far with the fish. Doc Sharrer had charged FYank O'Rourke with the responf ibility of procuring bait. Frank returned with a solitary worm, but before turning it over to thj nimrod demanded that he promise tr return it in a good state of preservation. Ho explained that he had learned conservation during the war and while he felt sure U would surfer no damage, he didn't want to take any chances.

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One Killed Another Stabbed And Four Are Hurt By Wild Skyrocket. (BIXLETIM.) The crashed and bleeding body of John H. Ttebhols was found on Burnham roud ot a late h ur Saturday nlsrht, evidently struck down by vampire anto which speeded on tn the darkness after delivering; the death blow. Vndrrtnker Burn, of Hammond, picked up the almost lifeless body, and rushed him to St. Mara-arct's hospital, but death came before the doctor could aid hint. He was stnjing wtlth a brother, Albert, In Ivnl'orte. Burinl will take place in Oak Hill cemetery (omornm, In ch arise of Burns. The murdered man a . U years of IN He haa no other relatives In this vicinity. One man ma killed, another was stabbed twenty times, and a family of four persons were struck by a wild sky rocket in the Fourth of July toll of accidents this year. The dead: TONT EIEDRON. 116 3 Myrtle ave. Robertsdale. " Skull fractured. Died on way to hospital. The injured: FRANK MERRILL, 359 Torrence avenue. Hammond. ELIZABETH MERRILL, came addretsi GEORGE MERRILL, same address. ARTHUR MERRILL, same address. All burned severely by sky rocket KOSTA 6TASOFF. til Morton ave., East Hammond. Cut on body and limbs twenty times. Expected to recover. Hammond was visited by a wave of accident, crime and an orgy of carelessness over the Fourth of July unequaled in the history of the city. Minor "accidents caused from drunken ness were reported from all over Ham-i mond from Saturday nlgtit until early this morning. Tony Fiedron was the only one to .loss his life. A dozen others had narrow; escapes from injury and death. On Lake George road an auto was driv en Into the lake folloiw-lng an accident which Involved three cars and twice as many people. In East Hammond a little baby was the innocent target for. the revolver of a drink crazed man, who fired scores of ehots into houses. Biedron was struck by the auto driven by Edward Maitre, 476 East State St., Hammond. The accident occured on Sheffield ave.. near 113th St.. at about 11:30 oVlock Saturday night. Maitre was driving south on the ave, and was blinded by lights from a north bound car. He did not see Biedron. w ho was walking in the street. Why he did not use the sidewalk Is a mystery. The car struck the man with terrific force, fracturing his skull. The Injured man was picked, up and taken to a Whiting drug store in the car which hit him. After receiving first id he was rushed to a hospital, but ho died without regaining consciousness an hour after the mishap. The body was taken to Baran's morgue. Dr.- E. K. Newton was called, but cculd do little for the Injured man. Maitre was absolved from all blame, as he was blinded by the lights approaching from the opposite direction, and because the man was In the street instead of . on he sidewalk. The Merrill family wre enjoying the fireworks display at Harrison park last night when a writhing, whirling rocket, spitting fire and sparks, ran amuck and whirred into their machine in which they were sitting. The recket burst as it entered, throwing balls of . colored fire in ail directions. Every one in the enr received severe burns, but it is thought that they will not result seriously. Drt Millerwattended the injured. The car was 'parked on Lyman ave., near Waltham st. Thousands of people were In the park at the time, and scores were barely abie' to get out of the path of the wild rocket. "Kosta StaslofC. a nrrocery delivery driver, was stabbed twenty times by bad negro when he surprised the lat ter in the barn of his employer. There is hardly an Inch on his body which is not cut and slashed. Stasloff was taken to St. Margarets hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Chidlaw. Miraculous as it may seem, none of the wounds are . serious, and providing the loss of blood not too great, the man will recover. The negro. John White. 5S4 Fields ave. !s in custody, charged with as(Continued on 'ig seven.) CHILD IS KILLED BY While shooting fire, crackers on the street at Seventh avenue, between Virginia and Delaware streets, Saturday evening. Syear-old Carroll Swanson, only child of Mr. and Mrs C. E. Swanon, was struck by a Ford auto dri-en by Joe Owens. 672 Washington street. the injuries proving fatal at the Mercy hospital. J

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BLOCK CAVES IN Police When Block Portion Sidewalks of Old Building Collapses. The oeiling of the second story of the Hohman block at SLHte and Hoiinian streets crashed in i.t 6 o'clock Saturday evening and created panic. The polica at once blocked off the side walk in front of the building on Hohman and State streets and no 'nu was permitted in and out of the strores until a. committee of contractors pronounced the buildwitf safe fur the time being. Ted Smith, superintendent of the street railways, stopped ttreet tars from pashins in front of the building and would not resume transportation! until the city assumed retpoiisibilitv . Smith said he feared that the old ramshackle btructure would coilap onto i Irk: street. The building is of ancient construction and despite-theffalse fronts that hart been put, in a fire trap and ;i menace. That it should be turn 1 wn and replaced without delay is ijenerally admitted. Mr. fc-'iuith, pointed t" the fact that there are freth tvilMK Os on the outside wall that the buildupis giving away. From tinm to time the paint alls off and new cracks appear. ThU general breaking do.n is indicative of danger. Fortunately there was no one In the part of the pool room on the second floor that was buried in the debris ot Iha ctiiing. For several years It has been noticeable that the state fire marshal's office la lax in enforcing Its edits. Buildings are condemned but nothing is ver done about it. There are several fire traps in the center of Hammond that are menace to the life of pedestrians and the patrons of the businesses they house- but the state f.re marshal does nothing to enforce the law. They should 1 shut cp tight, at once, and the .owners given a limited time in which to tear them down. Across from the Hohman block is the Main hotel, another barn that disgraces the city and is in danger of becoming a funeral pyre at any mjment. ' - I 5 HARBOR PEOPLE ARE Five Indiana Harbor people were seriousiy injured at Ambrldge in Gars shortly after 9 o'clock last night whert an auto in which they were riding plunged into a one-man street car wrecking the machine. They wereV taken to the Mefcy hospital. The injured are: ALEX SADOWSKI. SS03 Beath street. Indiana Harbor. EDWIN SADOWSKI, 3S03 Beach street, Indiana Harbor. JOHN EZHOSZ, '3S27 Deodore street, Indiana Harbor. JOHN' BORONOWSKI. 3325 Adler street. Indiana Harbor. JOHN" SENISKEZ. 3323 Adler street, Indiana Harbor. According to witnesses the driver of the Indiana Harbor party was driving a Ford and in attempting to drive around another machine on West Fifth ayenue, failed to notice an approaching street car and crashed into it while both were traveling at fifteen and twenty rni'.ea an hour. Motorman and Conductor Peebach st.yd th4' he was unable to bring his fur to a (top in time to avoid the collision. TAKES HIS LIFE WITH A middle-aged man. apparently , well to do, committed suicide in Gary sometime Sunday night when he fired a shot into hi brain at a secluded spot between the Michigan Central and I. H. Belt railroad tracks on Fiimore street, causing Instant death. The body was found by Brisk Quinn, 1605 Washington street. He saw the body of the suicide laying face down and thinking that the man was drunk called the police. Closer investigation L later, however, revealed a bullet hole in hie head and the revolver nearby. Coroner E. E. Evans was called to the scene and ordered the body removed to William morgue. The man was well clothed and had $70 In cash on his perynn. Effort ir being mads to identify the body by a letter "K" on his handkerchief and the letters "W. K." which is engraved on his watch fob. The description is given as age 35 years, brown hair, brown eyes, weight. 170 pounds; 5 feet 10 inches tall. His clothing wag purchased at a South Chicago store and is a dark mixed suit and wore a course straw hat. THOUSANDS CROWD HARRISON PARK Thourands of people visited Harrison Park yesterday where games and music featured a Fourth of July celebration under the aupice3 of the veterans of the Spanish-America n war. There was dancing in the evening and fire works. Owing to the excessi-.-e hat the program of speaking wa3 dispensed with

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'Bulletins BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE" LOGAN J5I'Ol;T, IND.. July 5 ' Hrr.ry H;irey Bart .n. 47, and Mind, attempted to commit suicids early teddy m the lobby Of the Colonial Hotel by tia-rhlns his throiit with a razor. Despondency over sli health ind domestic troubles is believed to have been responsible. It is believed he will recover . BTJIjIiZTIM" INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1! ATLANTA. OA, juiy o Two persons were killed and four others probably fatally hurt when the Jonrsboro accommodation train on the Central of Georgia railway struck an automobile at a grade crossing cn the Atlanta & .West I'oint railway in E. Atlanta today. . t BTJLL2TIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J DAN" VILLI;. ILI,.. Juiy o ro-ll'-e today w ere investigating a mysterious double traf.-idy rceaed by the tiivlli.g of the bodies of Mollis English. of IUnriieitcr. Minn., a wurid war vettrau, ?vnd Mi.s. leathering Sitieboiiom, young divorcee, iii the Uiter's apartni.-nt. They had been dead twe-nt-four hours. A sis jet a5 open mill itie room ftiled with fumes. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NE.V.5 SERVICE! MONTREAL July j A new neat record was established here today when 'the tnermoine tei rtgistcred 100.5 degrees. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS b ER V i C E CAMDEN, N. J., Juiy a Two children dead as the result of he.it prostration. tweny olier i rosirulcn eases, seven seriously injured by tirevvorks and lire crackers no the July Fourth t' 11 in Camden. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL WASHINGTON. NEWi SERVICE) July o i. h e compuoilcr of the currency today lisutd a call lor A t t.it emeu t of the ec:i;litieii of National LSanks as of June 3". BULLS UN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE DETROIT. July 5 Eleven persons met death during the holiday I enoU in Michigan. Six we.re drowned, lour wero victims of automobile accidents and the-oher, a child, died as the result of eating 4 fire cracker. ' BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LAFAYETTE, IND., July 5 Chas. E. Brewbaker, 65, was dying today from a broken back suffered last night m an automobile accident. A wheel came off tho- car he was riding in and the machine turned turtle, pinning him . beneath. Physicians were surprised that he lived through the night with his back broken. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ST. LOUIS, July 5 The bodies ot four bulclds are in morgues here today as the known toil of the last CI hours and the murky waters of the Mississippi river arc being searched for thi bodies of two others, thought to have drown themselves. Emll Van Isegham. ho, and Mi chael Groqezinger, hanged, selves. Peter Schfinder. 62, himself to death and Alex man, 36, swallowed poison. themshot MoseCOUNTY OFFICIALS' C001 ABOUTHOSPITALPROJECT SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN" POINT, Ind., July 5. Imagine county officials hoping that a $400,000 bond i.sue doe.'n t sell? Well, that's the situation Lake county officials are praying that nobody buys the bonds for the tuberculosis sanitarium because tli upkeep wi';i be a tremendous burden upon the already o'ver-butdened taxpayer. The county official.-- wo.iid like to wait until business p.cks up and taxes can be reduced before patting a heavier load on the taxpayer. Plans and specifications will be submitted to the count;-' fommii-nioners and if the bonds se'.l the contract will be let this month. INJURED AT LAFAYETTE I LAFAYETTE. Ind . July Ar!ie Simms. cf Muncle: Mrs. Wifliam Simma. an attendant ai the SoldiersHome Hospital hre. and Mr. and Mrs. Or;-ha Havling and their two-year-old daughter, Margaret. of Hammond, were injured Sunday afternoon when a closed automobile In which they were riding was in collision with a w-r'.xtg ear at .vuil.i nuu -wuin ,n imj j city. The occupants on the touring car did not give their names. The Simms car was struck on the left side and turned over, the, n"ise of the im- . .. . . nf 'SO dUriWLlUfe iiui.'ji'ua j . i-in'iii.-. i Mrs. liaviing suffe-red thr-e sovoi e cuts about the arms and cuts ir.ii i bruises about her body. Mrs. Simms j w as bruised about the heal and right shoulder. Mr. simms w as bruised j about the leg. The- injured persons were taken to the Soldiery' Home hospital, w here It wa3 said r cn were s?riousiy hurt. The Havling farr.i'y had come to Lafayette to spend July 4.

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!! An Explosion Marred By Holiday Event. (IllLLCTI.V.) , tSRECIAL TO THE TI ME; t Fred Ilnrhrcdht, 543 I-orsytlic otcnue, Wmt Hnmmonrl, one of tae men killed in tlie Mnndnrd oil plant t!at. in survived by bis vUdorr, Mm. Carrit Ilnrbrcdht, and four chtlrtren. Walter, Le-xter, Beutrlre nud Carl. Charles Hurtiecht 1 n brother of tht drceimed mnn and Mr. Paul B-jser. Mr. Joe Waiter and .Mrs. (hnr'ri Volknuin are e.i.trr. Service will tw held from the hi)M nt J i30 to the f.ei-m.ui MethotllM charoh at 2 p. ni. ThumUny afternoon. WHITING, InJ7JuIy C clr. record of twenty years without a fei-:-oua explosion was broken at the refinery of tiie Standard Oil company, m Whiting. yesterday morning wh;'n 'igl'.r men lost their iives and possibly tno score were injured In a bU.t which caused property damage rou,-:.-ly estimated, at two mill, on dollar. Font STII.I.S INVOLVED. Four stills - an -5 two baUerie were involved in tho fire which followed the tirst explor.on of one of the. pressure still between S and 5 o'clock. The dead are: KRED HAKEECHT. 116 Forsyth? avenue. West Hammond. JOSEPH PalvO. 7'j.' Scl-.rage avenue. Whiting. . FliANK STOUT. 1371 Roberts avenue. Kobertsdale. J"E WIX.D3UC. 24 New rerk avenue, Whiting. GUST JOHNSON. St. Elmo Hotel, Stu!h Chicago. FfiKD E.VGLE. 10S94 Avenue N. gout.1 thicago. Two unidentified. Codies of men instantly killed were in horrible condition. All were burr.ei : a ciisp and arms and legs were m;j..-:r.g. One of the unidentified bodies has tr.e inns and legs blown or burned away. CAISK O.VLY LONJKCTIRF.D. Cuie cf the explosion can be baieS 'n!y on conjecture. As is ger.eraiiy tn- case in n,ch accidc-r.ta little wa left on which to ba.-e an investigation. i"iie theory i advanced that a ima'.i ienk from one stii allowed thi contents to become ign.ted and txploda j . ;.e i.ue top ot the first ti.ii was jiown nign ;n-the a:r and fel! cn a neighboring still adding fuel to tha flames and causing burning oil to spread c er a wide territory. Men caught in this flaming deluge had no chance to escape. IDENTIFICATION DIFTICl'LT, One of the places from which the men got drinking water was located only a short distance from the still which gave way and a number of men from various partu of the plant were at t. fountain and were caught in the explosion. This makes Identification d'fficult until a complete check of the works can be made to And where men are missing. Joe Paiyo, assistant chief of the Are department of the works was on the scene and although suffering with burns more serious than he thought, he helped in fighting the fire. T:;; flames were subdued before noon, but I'aiyo had been forced to seek mediea: aid before that. DIF.D AT HOSriTAL, He was able to walk to the rireasms station where he was ordered to th ra.'favart hospital. There he died last' riighf. Fred Etigle was ais- able to walk to emergency hospital. The still which blew uv was an o d one and. under the rigid inspect - i i jies of the plant, had been ordered shut down for repairs as coon as t liepresent run wag made. OM.V Hn TWO EXPI,OMOXS. In the thirty years of its existen.e the Standard OH refinery at Whtttn? has had only two explosions.'' TV first one occurred twenty years a-n and cost the lire of one man. Yesfvday's explosion is the worst of its k t. i in the Calumet region. It broujn greater loss of life and property damage than tha Sinclair explosion earl -last year. The seriously injured were rushed to ! t lie Passavant hosDitn! at rhi..irn Several died on the way and othrr lived only a short time after reach!,i? it. In the meantime the offices of tncompany were besieged by huudrds of frantic people who were oager to learn if relatives were included in the 3i3t of dead and injured. Because of the confusion little satisfaction foii!1 he givf-n these peor'. iintil late yesterday although information was given out as soon as available. Identilcations w--o made h--means of bits of clothing, watches or jewelry which still clung to the charred bod ief. Added help was put on at the energeney hospital to care f'.r the m-r whose injuries consisted only of slight burn, cuts and bruises. Ther- u no means of knowing how many v-e.-treated in this way, but the hospitsl attendants? believe there must hnvg neen at .east forty and noss-.biv flftv ;,; arch is still beirz mads m't-i. of the four stills for bodies, b)t j ii any remained it is reared t'nev were I burned to aches in the fierce heat. DARING COP HELD UP MIDST OF THRILLIN GTALE "Bud" Seeberger. dare-devil, chauffeur of the Gary police station, was driving with his girly between Hr.r.imond and Gary last evening. Th'i engine was muffled and rurning slow as "Pud" thrilled the young lady, with utorie of his exploits. "And just then eight masked m-n jumped out of the bushes and openel fire. I yelled to tne chief to beat and leave me to take caie of thm,'' Bud was aying when a lone bandit stepped int- the road and ordered hv.r. . .. ....... . . i - . a 1. 1. . j A ur. j u m -p. i j - a i'i ii ; in ney and drove on to Gary in silence