Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 October 1902 — Page 1

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Two Persons Fatally Scalded, One of Them the Mother of Five Children. ALL OF WHOM ESCAPED UNHUET Eight Men Parboiled by Hot Steara Church Congregation Narrowly Escapes. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 20. Two persons were killed, and one fatally and three slightly injured In an explosion which partially wrecked the tug boat Fred Nellls. of St Louis, near Mound City, Ark., early yesterday. The dead are: Mrs. Josie Hill, of SL Louis, and William Phflllps, of Memphis (second engineer), badly scalded and died in the hospital. The injured are: Willie Gill em, negro porter, will die; Tom Manning, deckhand, and Captain Thos. Ledger, of St Louis, scalded; Frank Hill, of St. Louis, chief engineer, and husband of Mrs. Hill, slightly scalded. Only the Children Escaped. The Nellls, which was put In commission at Plaquemlne, La. thirty days ago, had eleven persons on board at the time of the accident The boat left Memphis Saturday night bound for Thebes, Ills., where she was to be used in constructing a railroad bridge. She tied up near Mound City. The explosion was caused by three boiler flues giving away. The upper deck of the tug was wrecked, but she can probably be repaired. Mrs. II111 leaves five children, all of were on board the vessel. Eight Men Seriously Scalded. Wheeling, W. Va., Oct 2a By the parting of a steam pipe at the RiverSide plant of the National Tube works In Benwood yesterday afternoon eight men were scalded and three of four of them will die. They are: William Anderson, burned about face and body, spine injured, will die; Henry West enhaver, head and body burned, right arm broken, will die; W. II. Jones, horribly burned about face and shoulders, will die; Samuel L. Grady, face, arms and upper portion of body seriously burned; Arthur Halfpenny, face, neck and arms burned; Frank Bartula, face and body scalded; W. H. Burke, scalded about upper part of body; Ed Carson, burns on head and face. Copper-Steam Pipe Gave Way. Four of the men were carpenters and four laborers. They were placing a partition In the boiler room of the new Mast furnace, and were working on a scaffold. A twelve-inch copper pipe supplying the blast engines with steam from the boilers broke, and the escaping steam filled the room. A valve was blown through two board partitions, and both were destroyed. The scaffold fe!l to the floor. When the steam was shut off the groaning men were carried out and taken to hospitals in this city, with the exception of Burke, who was taken to his home. BREAKS WOULD NOT WORK Trolley Car Strike a Freight Train id a Dozen Person Are II art. East Liverpool, O., Oct 20. A doien or more persons were injured Saturday by an electric car colliding with a cut of cars at grade crossing. The most seriously injured are: Frank Pacey, freight brakeman, of Wellsville, right leg and arm broken and shoulder dislocated; Anna Hallam.of Clarkson, left leg broken; Walter Deville, East Liverpool, left leg broken; Milton J. Piper, of Chester, nose mashed and body bruised; Harry Davidson, of East Liverpool, hand and right arm crushed; Harry B. Jackson, of Chester, right leg crushed. The accident occurred at the foot of a hill. The motorman saw an engine and cut of cars approaching and applied the brakes, but they would not work and the car struck the rear of the freight ' Two Lives Probably Lost at a Fire. Albany, N. Y-, Oct 20. Fire in the downtown district of this city Saturday night put In Jeopardy a number of lives and was the death of two persons, probably one person certainly. Thomas Ward, prpeman, fell from a ladder and broke his neck, and the watchman of the building. Ten Eyck La Mouse, has not been seen since. When the fire broke out there was a dance In progress on the top floor and many of the young women and men attending had to be taken out of the top windows and helped to adjoining roofs; some of the women were burned slightly. The loss was $500,000. Will Be the Death of Lee Machen. Kansas City, Mo., Oct 20. The engine of west-bound Chicago and Alton freight train No. 87 was derailed last night eight miles east of this city, injuring three train men, one fatally. The injured are: Lee Machen, engineer, will die; J. H. Nichols, fireman, back and right leg strained; It It Campbell, right arm scalded ail of Slater, Mo. Man Burned to Death. Hamlet N. C, Oct. 20. Fire which broke out at the cotton compress here about noon yesterday destroyed property valued at $223,000 and caused the death of J. M. Wilson, of Clarksville, Ga.t bookkeeper for the compress company; who was surrounded by fire and burned to death. , Jfarasw Escape from a Horror. Omaha, Oct 20. A serious catastrophe was narrowly averted at the First Christian church yesterday when the 500 people who gathered to hear Uev. Alien Wilson, of Irvington, Ind.,

barely escaped being thrown into the basrment twenty-five feet below, by the giving way of rotten timbers in the floor. The . vast audience passed out quietly, however, upon being notified of their peril, and all escaped unhurt The building Is an old one and the accident probably means its demolition. EVAHST0N IN GALA ATTIRE Buy Jmt Now rlth Some College Installation Ceremonies Religious Services First. Chicago, Oct 2a With Impressive ceremony the services attending the Installation of Edmund Janes James as president of Northwestern university were begun in Evanston yesteiday. The services will continue morning, afternoon and evening until tomorrow, when Dr. James will be inaugurated formally as the head of the university, which has been without a president since the retirement more than a year ago, of Henry Wade Rogers. Every important educational Institution in the country has sent one or more delegates to attend the inauguration exercises. Evanston was garbed in gala day attire for the occasion. The opening exercises yesterday consisted of religious services, which were held In seven Evanston churches, where prayers were offered for the future success of Northwestern university and for President James administration.

SOME CHICAGO GREEKS They Have an Cn pleasantness That Is Referred to the Courts for Decision. Chicago, Oct 2a Nectarios Macrocordatus did not have the pleaure of preaching the gospel to D. M anuses, Demosthenes Papantoniou, Louis Coumentizls, Vasilos Zepos, Stavros Sperakls, Peter Kefallet, John Vournaxos, and other members of the Association of the Greek Community of Chicago yesterday. Instead Theodore Prouslanos, who married the sister of the vice president of the association, Constalne Goevanes, conducted the services. Nectarios Macrocordatus was so anxious to preach that he insisted upon being allowed the privilege even after the trustees discharged him, and it was necessary to get an order from Judge Kavanagh restraining him from doing so. HlMlof C A. Richardson. Chicago, Oct 20. Relatives of Chester A. Richardson, a young civil engineer, have arrived at Chicago from Pelham, N. II., to assist in the search for the young man, who mysteriously disappeared nearly a -month ago from Munlslng. Mich., where he was superintending the construction of a $700,000 paper milL Grant Ordered to Washington. Chicago, Oct 2a Brigadier General Frederick Dent Grant U. S. A., who has been visiting his relatives In this city since last Friday, left for Washington last night under telegraphic orders from the War department He had expected to go direct to San Antonio. Killed While Crossing the Track. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Oct 20. Jacob Miller, a prominent farmer of Wright Corners, was fatally injured, and his wife and 0-year-old daughter were Instantly killed by a Big Four passenger train while crossing the track at Guilford In a buggy. Death of an I O. A. R. Woman. Louisville, Oct 20. Mrs. Catherine E. Hirst who for three successive terms was elected national president of the Ladles of the G. A. R., died suddenly of heart disease at her home In this city. Mrs. Hirst was GO years of age. Fatal Bolt or Lightning. Erie, Pa., Oct 2a The residence of Mrs. Nancy Sewell, of Gospel Hill, near this city, was struck and almost totally destroyed by" lightning. Mrs. Sewell was instantly killed and her daughter Josephine seriously Injured. LTEW3 FACTS IH OUTLILTE Nine petrified bodies have been found in the cemetery attached to the New York Infant asylum at Mount Vernon, N. Y. They are like white marble and solid as rock. The Austrian government Is preparing a bill for the purpose of combating drunkenness. The five old war monitors Canonicus, Nahant Lehigh, Montauk and Jason, have been condemned and will be sold. . The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church has decided to hold its convention next year at Chattanooga, Tenn. '( Policeman Oscar Brown, at Chicago, acted as pallbearer at the funeral of a friend, and ten minutes later was killed by a train. . The carpenters union of Colorado Springs has decided to build ft $200,000 memorial hall In honor of the late W. S. Stratton. A premium of $S50 was paid for the first choice of boxes for the Chicago horse show. - Detectives are Investigating the disappearance of R. A. Hsleel, a Persian palmist, of Chicago, and the absence of Mrs. John Ohl. of Monroe, Wis. The report of the Immigration commissioner is that 048,743 immigrants arrived in the United States during the year. Secretary of War Root in his report will recommend an equipment sufficient foran army of 250,000 men. : Premier Combes, of France, has decided to forbid the teaching of the Breton language in UiS schools of Brittany.' ' - '

III DOUBT Not Inclined on the First Day of the Miners' Convention To Se Agreeable. IHEY WANT ASSUBAKOE OP WORK Something" That the Operators Say They Won't Give Them, Many or Their Places Being Filled with Non - Union Men Will Probably Give Way Mitchell's Three Speeches. Wilkesbarre, Fa.. Oct 21. The anxiously awaited convention of the 145,000 striking miners met yesterday, but did not reach a vote on the proposed plan of settlement It Is expected to do so today. There were 002 delegates present In the Nesbltt theater, whero the convention was held, and they were empowered by their local unions to cast 807 votes for or against President Roosevelt's proposed plan of arbitration. The great majorityof the delegates were unlnstructed, the few who were Instructed being engineers, firemen and pumpmen who fear that the 5,000 strikers ot those classes may not get back their old places, now held by non-union men. This question of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen proved the only stumbling block In the "way of almost Immediate adoption of the peace prv posal. Not Looking for Fifteen Kay Votes. At one time yesterday It seemed certain that the convention was about to adopt the recommendation of President Mitchell to end the strike, but the steam men's plea was too earnest, and the final vote went over. The leaders of the strikers, except Mitchell, were hardly beard at all in the convention yesterday the anxious engineers being allowed to give full expression to their feelings. One of the high district officers said yesterday there would not be more than fifteen votes recorded against the plan to resume work. Net Result the First Day. There were two sessions forenoon and afternoon j esterday, and the net result as regard the progress of the convention toward Its great object was a permanent organization, with Mitchell in the chair, and his speeches laying the president's plan before the delegates and advocating its adoption, and the appointment of a committee on resolutions. This committee, as Mitchell said to the delegates, would prepare a formal statement to the public, telling fully and carefully why the convention decided to continue the strike. If It should so decide, and why the strike was declared off, .if that was the outcome of their deliberations. Tho question before convention when It adjourned for the day was on the adoption of the resolution to call off the strike and leave all questions to the president's commission. MITCHELL'S THREE SPEECHES Synopsis of What He Advised the Convention It Should Do. When Mitchell made his appearance first upon the platform yesterday he was greeted with enthusiastic applause and cheers. He touched upon the right of employes to organize and said the time was past for employers to deny them that right, quoting Lincoln as saying that "capital is the fruit of labor and could not exist if labor haa not first existed; labor therefore dy serves the first consideration." He then urged the delegates to promptly agree to the resumption of work under the proposition before them, basing his urgency chiefly on the situation as to the coal supply and the suffering public if it is not replenished. His second speech was a notice to all the strikers that every man of them stood on the same plane; that there was no sympathetic strike this time, every striker, including the engineers and pumpmen, having gone out for wages. The speech was a reply to the objections of the engineers. These men quit when their quitting endangered the safety of the mines; as, the pumps once stopped and not quickly started, the mines would fill with water and incalculable damage be done absolute ruin in some cases. When they quit tte operators put In new men as far as they could get them, and they have announced that none of these new men will be displaced to make room for a returning striker. Mitchell urged the acceptance of the president's proposition and endeavored to reassure the engineers, etc., In the matter. He told them that no doubt some of them would fail under the proposition under discussion to obtain their old jobs, but that he was assured that the operators were inclined to be "fair and reasonable" and that he believed "the coal companies will gradually displace the men who have your Jobs and. give you your old places again. I dare say that hundreds of the men who were brought here from the cities and from the farms to take your places will return to the cities ana farms when you go back." But he did not want them to vote on that understanding, but on the understanding that some would be left out and these he promised the U. M. W. would take care of. In his third speech he told the delegates that the leaders had not adopted the peace proposition as the op erators made If and never would have adopted It that way; he and the other executive officials had secured a modification of the first proposition, In

which organized labor was given a place on the commission.

INCIDENTS OF TOE OATH EBING rrese Permitted to Stay at the Executive .Seel Ion. J The surprise of the convention was the decision to admit newspaper men to all the sessions, open or executive. Twice the newspaper men got the permission by tig majorities. First on a petition from them asking to be allowed to remain a motion to grant the request was carried, and later, when a motion to reconsider the first vote to admit was rejected. The pleas which won were that the reporters represented the people, that public opinion had helped the strikers and that the best way to get an accurate report of this convention was to let the press repre sentatlves stay there on the spot Mitchell, however, asked the press men to omit names when stating any motions made or action taken, as the publication thereof might interfere with a man getting work. . A delegate from the Wyoming valley caused a storm of enthusiasm by singing a song entitled, ?Glve Three Cheers for Mitchell, for the Strike That We Ilave Won." Songs and 6hort speeches by other delegates followed, and the striking mine workers for the time being seemed to have forgotten their troubles. While the debate on admitting the press was proceeding a rush was heard in the upper gallery. Some one had burst open the door from the outside and the theater was soon filled with almost as many men who were not delegates as there were delegates. They were allowed to stay until executive business came up, and then all who did not have credentials, except the reporters, were ejected. While the gathering was debating the apprehensions of the engineers that they would lose their Jobs It was argued by one delegate that the calling out of the engineers, firemen and pumpmen was a mistake, but as good union men they obeyed, ne wanted the union to stand by those men now and not turn its back on them. Another delegate from the southern district declared that the organization should not send themen back to work until all of tbem were assured work. "If we are going to die," he declared, "let us all die together." Another said that the positions for miners and mine laborers are numerous enough to give nearly all of the men employment, bist those for engineers, firemen and pump runners are not so numerous. After Mitchell's third speech the delegates again took up the debate, and the views expressed were varied. One was willing to leave the whole matter In the hands of President Roosevelt's commission, and another said. "If I can't gex my job I can look for another one, therefore let us go to work and give the American people some coal." The sentiment of the last speaker was loudly applauded. Judge Gray Accepts. Vashlngtoii, Oct. 21. Judge Gray, one of the members of the coal strike arbitration committee, took lunch with the president yesterday. He said he had called at the White House merely to accept the appointment MISTAKE AS TO IDENTITY Supposed Deaf Man Appears In Court to Prove That He Was Not Killed by the Defendant. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 21. Just as the case of Clarence Peake, charged with the murder of Silas Hulin, at Clinton. Tenn., was about to be called in Ihe supreme court here yesterday, a man entered the court room unannounced, and addressing Chief Justice Beard said: "I am Silas Hulin, who was not killed by Clarence Peake." Peake, who is the son of ä prominent family, had been sentenced in a lower court to ten years in the penitentiary, but Is now in the Insane asylum near here a raving maniac caused by this case. Hulin says that Peake shot another man whose name Is now unknown, and that he (Hulin) escaped on the first train and went to Colorado, from which state he came back here to prove that he was not dead. Fifteen Persons Hurt. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct 1. The Louisville express on the Knoxville and Ohio division of the Southern railway, which left Knoxville at 7 p. m., collided head-on with a freight near Coal Creek, Tenn., last night injuring fifteen people, three of them trainmen and twelve passengers. Only one is fatally hurt Engineer Huff master, of Knoxville. v Chicago's Masonic Temple ScandaL Chicago, Oct 21. The grand jury has returned an indictment against James II. Gormely, president of the Masonic Temple association, for alleged complicity In the attempt to have the taxes of the corporation amounting to over $2,000, marked as paid on the books of the county treasurer, when no money had been paid. Chtcago Thanks Dr. Toren. Chicago, Oct 21. The common council last night adopted a resolution tenr dering the thanks of the city to Dr. Adolph Lorenz, of Vienna, for the charitable work he has done among poor children while here. . Another Negro Earned by Vob. Forest City, Ark., Oct 21. Charles Young, colored, charged with murdering Mrs. Ed Lewis white, was burned at the stake here ast night by a mob. Wine Col r I Barred. Denver, Colo., Oct. 20. Because the glass of the Frances Wlllard memorial window in the People's tabernacle Is wine color the Cassell W. C T. U. has ordered it taken out

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Strike Declared Off Without a "Dissenting Vote by the Convention of Miners. PBESIDENT QUICKLY NOTIFIED And Promptly He. Calls Together the Commission. FIRST MEETING TO BE OH FRIDAY News of the Settlement Heard with Joy All Over the) Coal Regio; Cost Estimated at $2V 210,000. Washington, Oct 22. Shortly before 3 p. m. yesterday President Roosevelt received a telegram from Wilkesbarre, Pa., Informing him that the convention of miners had declared off the anthracite coal strike. The telegram was signed by John Mitchell, chairman, anq W. B. Wilson, secretary of the convention. Immediately upon receipt of the information the following telegram was sent to Mitchell: "Upon receipt of your telegram of this date the president summoned the commission to meet here on Friday next, the 24th inst, at 10 a. m. Commission Haa Been Summoned. News of the termination of the strike was received by the president wit great satisfaction. Before the formal telegram from Mitchell had ' reached him he had been informed through the Associated Press of the convention's favorable action. Soon afterward Colonel Carroll D. Wright, commlsslonei of labor, the recorder of the arbitration commission, gave to the president the information contained in telegrams which ho had received from Wilkesbarre. Already telegrams have been sent to the members of the commission notifying them of the first meeting and summoning them to be present Where Meetings Will Be Held. The meeting probably will be held in the office of Commissioner Wright in the department of labor. It Is understood that few meetings of the commission will be held in Washington. After the work of the commission has been mapped oat the first step will be to take the testimony of the miners, who may be regarded as plaintiffs in the case. The partieo to the inquiry will be permitted to be present at the hearings either personally or by coun sel. It Is probabternrattSTTlrst ses sions of the commission at which testimony will be taken .will be held in Wilkesbarre, as that city will be most convenient fVr the miners representa tives. Other meetings will be held in Philadelphia or New York, or In both cities. STRIKE IS OFF UNANIMOUSLY Miners Convention So Vote and There's Joy In the Mine Regions. WllUesbarre, Pa., Oct 22. With a shout that fairly shook the convention building the representatives of the 147,000 mine workers who have been on strike since last May officially declarei off, at noon yesteray, the great contest, and placed all the questions involved in the struggle in the hands of the arbitration commission appointed by the president of the United States. When the news was flashed to the towns and villages down in the valleys and on the mountains of the coal regions the strike-affected Inhabitants heaved a sigh of relief. , Everywhere there was rejoicing, and in many places the end of the strike was the sigal Jor impromptu town celebrations. -, The vote to resume coal mining was a unanimous one and was reached only after a warm debate. The principal objection to accepting the arbitration proposition was that no provision was contained in the scheme to take care of those men who would fall to get back their old positions, or would be unable to get any work at all. The engineers and pumpmen did not wish to run the risk of losing altogether their old places and be compelled to dig coal for a living. This question was argued right up to the time the vote was taken, and the final resolution was adopted without the question being settled. A few moments before adjournment however, a partial solution was reached, when a delegate in the farthest corner of the hall moved that the problem be placed in the hands of the executive boards for solution, and his suggestion was adopted. Hundreds of men needed to repair the mines and otherwise place them In condition for operation are at work this morning. President Mitchell received many congratulatory telegrams from all over the country after the news spread that the strike was ended. ORDERED BACK TO WORK Text of the Matter That Called Off the Strike rkanks Voted. ' The convention adopted two sets of resolutions. The first was the all important one, calling off the strike. It resolved that a communication be addressed to President Roosevelt announcing that "We have decided to accept the proposition operators plan of arbitration as finally agreed upon therein embodied and submit all questions at Issue between the operators and mine , workers of the anthracite coal regions tor adjustment to the commission -which you have named. In pursuance , of. that decision, we shall report for work on Thursday morning, Oct 23, in the positions and; work

ing places occupied by us prior to the inauguration of the strike. We have authorized John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, with such assistants as he may select to represent us in all hearings before the committee." After this was adopicd a set of resolutions went through thanking all who have helped In any way or sympathized with the strikers, or used their good offices in an attempt to secure a settlement of the dispute.

CELEBRATING THE STRIKE END Big Time Expected on Oct. 89 Men Who Will Not Get Work. Reports from the small towns in the outlying regions are to the effect that celebrations of all kinds were held last night Some of the larger towns celebrated the ending of the strike today. The greatest celebration, however, will be reserved for Oct 29, John Mitchell day. That day will mark the second anniversary of the ending of the big strike In 1900, when the men won a 10 per cent, increase. Tho end was celebrated last night with greater enthusiasm than elsewhere, at Shenandoah and Mahanoy City. Philadelphia will have to Import laborers, skilled and otherwise, to take the places of the miners who have been employed there during the strike, and who have now come back to tht coal field. A few engineers, firemen, pump runners, machinists and some other men not directly engaged In mining coal have already appUed to the superintendents of collieries in this region for reinstatement, but were refused. The superintendent In most cases informed the men that they will retain their present employes. A dispatch from Scranton says: "The belief here is that the non-union men who have been working during the strike will bo a rather diminutive quantity tomorrow morning. Already thos. of them who were brought here from other places are returning to their homes in large numbers. Superintendent Rose, of the Delaware and Hudson company, said that he thought there would be places for all of the old employes. A few, he said, who have been leading assaults on the company's property and employes will not be taken back under any consideration." Cost of the Strike. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct 22. A former mine superintendent In the Hazleton region, who is now acting as auditor for several large coal companies, was asked his opinion regarding several widely circulated estimates of losses from the strike. These tables estimate the total losses at from $112,000.000 to 100,000,000. He pronounced these figures gross exaggerations and madt the following estimate: Loss to railroad companies In freight, 14,000,000: loss to anthracite operators from unusual sales of bituminous coal, $0,000,000; cost of coal and Iron police force, $1,000,000; loss to miners in wages, fMlO.OOO; damage to mines, $800,000; total, $2G,210,OOOl ON THE TRAIL OF L0UBET Assassin Caught While Trying to Get In Reach of the French Presldent. Paris, Oct 22. The Figaro this morning says a man was detected early this morning attempting to climb a wall of the Elysee palace. It is believed that he Intended to hide In the palace garden in the hope of obtaining an opportunity to assassinate President Loubet The man was arrested and found to be armed with a polgnard and a loaded revolver. He has been recognized as a dangerous anarchist who has already been convicted three times, and upon two of these occasions for manufacturing explosives and machines. The police are trying to keep the matter quiet and refuse to divulge the man's name. ' Disciples Discuss Home Missions. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 22. The first session of the American Christian Missionary society section of the convention of the Disciples of Christ was held yesteraay. The work of this section will last three days, and will have to do vdth the home field. The competition for the next convention has narrowed down to Detroit and Portland, with the chances mostly In favor of the former place. Irish Convention Adtonrns. Boston, Oct 22. The Irish convention adjourned yesterday, after electing John F. Finerty president a reelection. It was promised that tho Irish in this country will raise $100,000 as a campaign fund for the Irish home rulers and after that give a dollar for every dollar raised by the landlords In Ireland to fight the Nationalists. The convention was very enthusiastic. Iowa Man Responds. Boston, Oct 22. The national convention of spiritualists was opened yes terday by Harrison D. Barret, of this city, president of the local association, whose address of welcome was responded to by C. K. Fisk, of Keokuk, la. ' Political Shooting In Porto Rico. San Juan, Porto Rico., Oct 22. There was a political shooting affray at Arroyo yesterday morning. A mob atacked several Federals who returned the fire of their assailants. One lean, a Republican, was killed. Ail-Americans Win Another. , Kansas City, Mo., Oct 22. The AIIAmerlcans defeated the All-Nationals yesterday In the quickest game played this year. But seventy minutes were required for the eight and a half in nlngs.' The score was 5 to 4.

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Fire Full of Horrors Destroys 0500,000 Worth of Property at Chicago. SIX MEN ARE OEETAINLY LOST List, However, Is Not Complete and May Contain Thirty. Men Leap From tb Flames to Die on Pavement One Misses a Life Brands Fly a Mile, Chicago, Oct 22. Six men are known to have lost their lives in a fire which last night partly destroyed the plant of the Chicago branch of the Glucose Sugar Refining company, situated at Taylor street and the Chicago river. The list of dead will certainly be much greater than six, and may reach as high as thirty. The estimates run all the way from that number down to ten. Only one of the six men whose bodies have been recovered has been identified. Men Known To lie Dead. The list Is as follows: Dead Frank Rothenberg (foreman and an unidentified man, leapt from fifth story; unldenr tified man, small In stature, killed by Jumping from building; Frank Lawrence, electrician, was In the building and cannot be found; unidentified man, jumped from window; unidentified man, head crushed. Injured Frank Moore, hands burned; John Tucker, Lip fractured; Paul Butkos, badly burned, severe internal Injuries; Paul Kauris, face and hands burned; Gregos Gretalski. badly bruised; Faul Krukrie, bruised and lungs scorched. Explosion Starts the Blaze. The fire broke out with an explosion in the drying house, which is seven stories in height and stands close to the main building of the plant, which is fourteen stories high. A thira structure Is four stories high. The two smaller buildings were completely destroyed, and the larger building was badly damaged. The fire spread after the explosion with such rapidity that It was Impossible for the men in the 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 In the list of dead. All on That rioor Are Dead. Some of the employes who made their escape say that there were tweuty or thirty, and others say that there were not more than ten at work when the fire broke out Whatever the number all are dead. Four men leaped from the upper floors and all met death. Property loss, about SöOOO WAS A VERY hOT FIRE Brands Blows More Than a Mile Frightful Incidents. The fire was a terribly hot one, and the brands were carried by the southerly wind more than a mile north of the buildings burning. At that distance there was a rain of sparks and some brands nearly as big as a man': fist As soon as it broke out the men employed in the three lower floors of the drying house ran for the doors and windows, and all of them succeeded in reaching the open air. On the third floor there was one man at work. He was cut off from the fireescape and was compelled to make a run for his life down the strairs. He burst through a mass of flame when he reached the lower door, and was badly scorched. The men on the seventh floor had no chance whatever for their lives. Several of them left the windows and crawled along the sills in an effort to reach a place of 6afety, but with the exception of two all those who attempted to reach safety in this way made up their minds that It was cer tain death, and went back into the burning building. The two men, however, remained to take their chance of a leap, and climbing up on the window ledge they sprang' Into the aik One of thera came straight down for the greater part of the way, but Just as he was within a short distance of the pavement his body swung around and he struck the stone walk at full length. The other man turned over and over as he came down. Frank Rothenberg, a foreman working on the fifth floor of the drying house, met his death In making a jump for a net held by the firemen underneath the window where he stood. He was compelled to leap far out In order to clear some obstructions on the side of the building, and missed the net by a yard. The firemen, seeing that he would not make the net made every effort to catch him, but failed. KU skull was crushed and he died Instantly. Joseph Butkost "who escaped with his life, but is badly ' burned and bruised, had better fortune la striking the net when he leaped from another part of the fifth floor. lie hit It squarely, but being a heavy man be went through and struck the ground. He was rushed to the county hospital, where it was said he might recover. Paul Kauris also broke through the net but was not badly hurt. The fire was under control before 1 a. m. today, and though it was not possible at that time to form any estimate of the loss of life, the statements of the men employed In the drying house were so conflicting that ine police declared that In their opinion the loss of Lf e would not be more than ten or twelve. .