Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-22
A TerrIble ErpIo.lon In ChIcnro.

A HORRIBLE accident occurred in Chicago
on the evening Of the 18th in the Garden City
Distilery of Simon Powell & Sons, situated I'm
a triangular tract of land at the intersections
Of Twenty-second and Morgan streets and
Canalport avenue. The following account OF
the disaster is condensed from the Tribune:
At seven o'clock in the evening persons with
in mile or two Of the distllery were startled
by loud rafting sound, followed by the roar
ing hiss OF escaping steam. One might have
OWNED from the noise that some large boiler
had exploded. Those in the immediate vicin-
ity at the time of the explosion saw a large
tank thrown many feet upwards in the air, and
were almost deafened by the noise. The
engine-room, bolcr-room and a large shaving
bin were completely demolished. The cook
ing room was an institution uncommon in dis
tillerles. 1t contained only a large tank, eight
cen feet high and six feet in diameter, which
was apparently strongly built Of double plates
of boiler iron. This was termed the cooker"
BY u new process it was used for the purpose
Of fastening as well as improving distilation.
1t was filled yesterday, and the contents, after
being subjected TO twenty pounds steam press
ure, was considered ready for the mash-tubup-
stairs in an adjacent building Along about
seven o'clock it became necessary to blow
out the contents. The operation was being
conducted by Theodore G. Kimmen, the fore
man, and there were present besides himself
the following, who were killed and buried In
the ruins of the building; John or Andy DAILY,
Sandy -, Frank Trennor Frank POdratz,
Joseph Horaka and wife aud Jacob KalSuska.
Also the following, who were wounded and
scalded: George Schaefer, Henry Fischer,
Henry Zum Fclde. While the engineer was
increasing the steam pressure In the cooker
TO drive out some clog in the dellvery-pipe,
the root and went almost straight up into the
air, some say until It looked no larger than
flour-barrel. The main portion of it landed
on the west side Of prgan street, about 175
feet west and a littldSto the north of its orig
inal location. A considerable portion, to-
gether with one end of It, was buried deep
into the earth. Tho shaving, boiler, engine
and cooking rooms were completely demol-
ished. The force of the explosion may readily
be imagined when II is stated that a freight
car, laden heavily with rye, which stood di-
rectly i'm front of the opening, was overturned
on the track, and the timbers and framework
torn into shreds as II by lightning. The tim
bcrs and masonry of the demolished build
ing, together with the large shaving
chute, were shattered in places as If they
were pipe-stoms, and were thrown into
tangled heaps. The employees beneath the
bris. The scene at the distillery an hour after
the explosion was a heart-rending one. Daly's
body was the first found, and was carried into
the Office. The body OF Sandy, the miller,
was next found, and was laid side by side with
DAILY. Both bodies were badly mangled and so
horribly sculded that. the skin and portions
Of the tiesh peeled of at the touch. A large
crowd soon gathered, among whom were
many women and children crying and be
wailing the loss Of husband and father.
DHlys wife was among those who visited the
scene, and when she saw the dead body of her
husband her grief became uncomfortable, and
IL was with great difficulty that she was taken
from the room TO prevent her from throwing
herself PROSTATE upon the disigured remains.
Those who had none TO mourn for might well
have mourned for those two poor, hard-work-
ing men. DAILY leaves wife and three young
children In destitute circumstances, and some
where in the city Scotch Sandy left a wife and
four children thousands Of miles from their
home and almost penniless.