The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-22
List of Dead Is Estimated From
 Ten to Twenty,
GLUCOSE SUGAR COMPANY
The Fire Cut of Escape From Many On the Seventh Floor of the
 Building-Some Met Death
 By Jumping From Place.

Chicago. October 21-Five men ara known to have lost their lives in a fire, which tonight partially destroyed tha plant of the Chicago branch of the Glu- cose Sugar Refining company, situated at Taylor street and the Chicago river. The list of dead will certainly be much greater than five, and may reach as high as thirty. The estimates run all the way from that number down to ten. Only one of the five men whose bodiea have been recovered have been identified The list Is as follows:
 The dead:
 Frank Rothenberg. foreman. skull crushed in leaping from the fifth story
 Unidentified man, six feet tall; skull crushed in leaping from the fifth story
 Unidentified man, small in stature, both legs broken; killed by jumping from fifth floor
 Frank Lawrence. supposed to be dead; known to have been in building and not seen since.
 Unidentified man. medium height; crushed in jumping from window. l Unidentified man; head crushed.
 The injured:
 Frank Moore. hands burned while slid | ing down a water pipe
 Joe Tucker. spectator, fell through ho1e in Taylor street viaduct; hip fractured.
 Paul Bulkos, severely burned and in- jured in jumping.
 Paul Kauris, face and hands burneds badly bruised in jumping.
 Gregos Gretalski, badly bruised, slight burns.
 Paul Krukirie, bruised and lungs scorched by inhaling flames
 The fire broke out with an explosion in the drying house, which is seven storiea in height, and stands close to the main building of the plant, which is fourteen stories high.4A third 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 rap- idity that 1t was impossible for the men in the upper stories of the drying house to make their escape, and 1t is the num- Der of men believed to have been at work on the seventh floor that causes the un- certainty in the list of dead. Some of tha employees who made their escape say that there were twenty-nine or thirty, anu 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. The fifth man in tha list of dead is an electrician who Ia known to have entered the building and was there at the time of the fire He ia supposed to be dead from the reason that the fremen and laborers say no man made his escape from the upper floors.
 It Is not likely that the number of dead will be known with accuracy within twenty-four hours.
 Secretary Glass of the refining com pany said at o'clock this morning that he estimated the loss at s500.000.
 The flames spread rapidly and by tna time the first section of the fire depart nent had arrived the building was ablaze from foundation to roof. It was inpossi- ble for the fremen to make any effective fight against the flames and in short time all the walls were down and the building, within half an hour of the time 1 of the explosion was a mass of debris | The fire was so hot that at one time it l was feared that Taylor street viaduct across which access is had to the south side of the city, would be destroyed but the firemen managed to save this, after a hard struggle. They bent every effort toward saving the fourteen story build | ing of the refinery, but so intense was the fire in the drying house that this | caught fire in several places and at 12:S0 a. m. 1t was evident that. even if it could be saved at all. it would be badly damaged
 Tried to Escape.
 The men employed in the three lower floors of the drying house ran for the doors and windows as soon as they had knowledge of the fire 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 fire es- cape by the dense clouds of smoke that poured through the building and was compelled to make a run for his life down the stairs. He burst through mass of flame and when he reached the lower doorway was badly scorched. Two minutes later would have made it utterly impossible for him to make his | escape 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 safety but with the ex- | ception of two men all those who at- tempted to reach safety in this way made up their minds that 1t was certain death and went back into the burning building.
 Jumped From Windows. | The two men, however, determined to | take the chances of leap and climbing upon the window ledge they sprang oui l into the air One of them came straight down for a 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 l length The other man turned over as he came whlrling down. Their bodies were | horribly crushed and mangled and 1t was impossible for any of the men who saw them directly after their jump to identify them in any way. These are the two bodies said to have been taken out of the | ruins.
 Four other men jumped from the win dows of the fourth floor. These men were terribly injured and were taken in po- lice amhuiances to the hospitals. Two of them who were able to give their names to the physicians are Joseph BuiKos ana Paul Kauris
 One of the survivors who reached the ground in safety after periious journey down the fire escape from the fourth story said:
 q dort believe any of the men on the ton floor could have escaped. The flames drove me from my post, and but for tho fact that I was near the fire escape I would never have reached the ground"
 The fire was under control before I