The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-26
Eight Known Dead, and
Others May Be Buried
in Ruins.
ONE BODY BLOWN
INTO CEMETERY
Flames Follow Explosion in Dry
Starch House of Corn Products
Company. and Further Dam
age Is Imminent-Brook-
lyn Water Front Has
100000 Blaze.

waukeegan, Ill. November 2S.-An
explosion, which wrecked the ot
starch house Of the Corn PRODUCES
Company's plant this afternoon. ki'eo
between eight and twelve "orAnel
injured twenty-seven others. several
Of whom will die. and caused abou'
100000 property damage.
Uncertainty as to the number OIL
dead was caused by inability OF nrene
to search the burning ruins because o,
continued minor explosions Edwaro
Conrad, deputy in the Lake county
eoroner's office. was authority Tor the
abatement that twelve men at least had
been trapped in the wrecked build
ing.
Nearly all Of the workmen killed OF
Injured were Polish. Lithuanian or
Austrian, and they were on the com
pany's payroll by numbers, ana nos
by names. This further increased the
difficulties met by the coroner In MS
efforts to arrive at a correct death
list
Body Blown Into Cemetery.
The explosion tore the two-story
frame top from the ive-story building
and scattered bits OF 1t for nifty yards
in all directions. The body of one
man killed was blown across the Chi
caKo and Northwestern Railroad right
of way onto the hillside in Oakwooo
Cemetery.
All OF the injured were coated with
starch, which had to be washed on
before surgeons could treat them Prt-
vate automobiles were pressed into SER
vice to carry the injured to the hos
pital
Firemen from North Chicago. the
National Envelope Companys plant
and the American Steel and Wire Com
pany's plant aided the Waukeegan de-
partment in preventing tho spread OF
the IRE to other portions OF the ois
Corn Products plant Although the
6re appeased 60 be under control to-
ntrtt, the firemen said they expected
II would continue TO burn tomorrow,
with the possibility that new explo-
sions would start IL afresh.
Great Fire In Brooklyn.
New York. November 25.-Brooklyn's
East River water front was the scene
late to-day Of the most serious explo-
sion and fre that that section has
known for years Fifteen men were
removed TO hospitals suffering from
burLs and injuries from which q num-
Der may die. Several persons on the
scene at the time were missing to-
night, but later reports discredited
earlier reports that several lives had
been lost The area OF three blocks
was swept and a loss OF nearly ST.
GOO, 600 caused
The IRE started with q series Of ex-
plosions Of chemicals on the ground
floor Of the five-story building OF the
Union Sulphur Company, in the VIII
liamsburR section OF the seventy men
at work in the building, . dozen on
the main floor were hurled In every
direction. -Four other explosions fol-
lowed. and the building was soon en-
veloped in the weird blue flames OF
burning sulphur. Workers who had
escaped from other entrances fought
their way through the sulphur fumes
to the rescue Of the unfoftunate0, and
were themselves overcome.
The flames swept down on q large
hay and grain warehouse and licked
50 close to the plants Of the Brooklyn
Gas Company and the Pratt and Stand
ard Oil Companies that a series OF ter
rible explosions was momentarily fear
ed. While the heat blistered the gas
and oil tanks they escaped destruction.