The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-22
Were on Seventh Floor Of the Glu-
cose Sugar Refinery When That
Structure Burst Into Flames.
FOUR KILLED BY JUMPING
OTHERS TERRIBLY INJURED AND
TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL.
Total Casualties Estimated as High
as Thirty-TwO Large Build
ings Destroyed.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2L-Five men are known
to have lost their lives in a fire which to-
night partially destroyed the plant Of the
Chicago branch of the Glucose Sugar Re-
fning 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 num-
ber down to ten. Only one Of the five
men whose bodies have been recovered
has been identified. The dead are:
FRANK ROTHENBERG, fireman;
skull crushed in leaping from fifth story.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, six feet tall;
skull crushed in leaping from fifth story.
ture; both legs broken; killed by jumping
from building.
FRANK LAWRENCE, electrician, sup
posed to be dead; known to have been In
building and not seen since.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. medium height;
crushed in jump from window.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, medium height;
head crushed.
The injured: Frank Moore, hands burned
while sliding down a water pipe John
Tucker, spectator, fell through hole in
Taylor street viaduct; hip fractured; Paul
juries received in jumping from building;
Paul Kauris. face and hands burned, bad
ly bruised in jumping from Duiidlng; Gre
gos Gretalsk', badly bruised, slightly
burned; Paul Krukrie. bruised and lungs
scorched by inhaling flames.
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 third structure is four
stories high The two smaller buildings
were destroyed and the larger building was
badly damaged. The fire spread after the
explosion with such rapidity that it was
impossible sor the men in the upper stories
of the drying house to make their escape.
and il is the number of men believed to
have been at work on the seventh floor that
causes the uncertainty in the list of dead.
Some of the employees. who made their
escape, say that there were twenty-nine or
thirty, and others say 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 the list Of
dead is an electrician, who is known to
have entered the building and was there
at the time of the fire. He is supposed to
be dead, for the reason that all the firemen
and laborers about the burned building say
that no man made his escape from the up
per floors. Frank Moore was working on
the fourth floor and made his escape by
sliding down the water pipe. He declared
that none of the men in the floors above
him were able to get away. 1t is not likely
the number of dead will be known with ac-
curacy within twenty-four hours.
The men employed in the three lower
floors of the drying house ran for the doors
and windows as soon as they had knowl-
edge of the fire, and all of them succeed
ed in reaching the open air. On the third
floor there was one man at work. He was
cut of from the fire escape 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 q mass Of flame when he reached