Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-09-24
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were so severely injured they prob
ably would die
In addition, hundreds of others re-
ceived injuries and surns.
The damage is esNimated at 150,-
100000 marks, nOminally S37, 100000.
Dense clouds of smoke and chemi-
cal fumes which poured from the
wrecked vatS hindered the work of
rescue. The rescuers had to wear
gas masks before they could venture
close TO the scene
Heat Prevents Rescues.
1t was hours after the explosion
before the workers attempted TO pene-
trate to the heart of the explosion,
so great was the heat and so dense
were the rolling clouds and deathly
fumes.
NeighbOring cities have converted
their schools and public buildings into
hospitals to care for the wounded who
survived the disaster and were car
ried from the scene by imprOvised
ambulanceS and trains.
Oppau was n war town" devel-
oped TO help furnish chemicals for
munitions and gas used by the Ger
man army.
From the University of Heidelberg
at Heidelberg special trains carrying
doctors and nurses were rushed to the
stricken districts. Motor ambulances
from Heidelberg also sped to the
scene.
Bury Three TrainIoacs.
The blast occurred as the shifts
Of wOrkmen were changed at the
Badische works. and three trainlOads
of employees en- route for home after
their days work were trapped in the
falling debris after the trains had
been blown from the tracks.
The night shift of workmen already
were in the laboratory.
The Badische Anilin Soda Fabrik
works at Oppau was one of the larg-
est chemical manufacturing plants i'm
the world. having more than 800
wcrknen
Laboratory Shattered.
The laboratory, cOntaiping several
hundred workmen, in which the eX-
plOSiOn occurred, was lifted bodily
into the air and came down i'm rain
Of bits of materials and portions of
mems bodies
That portion of Oppau's pOpulace
not killed or injured by the blast fled
in terror from the scene, not towards
IT, Some ran far into the country
and were met by motorists from near
by towns who came to investigate.
All wires were down.
Mannheim and Ludwigshafen rushed
fire apparatus to the scene. but We're
too late to do anything besides save
a few structures on the outskirts of
the wide area of the explosion. Many
of the injured perished in the flames.
Military and police halted rescue
work at nine o'clock. when the fire
still raging in the ruins threatened
three large gas tank containers
Carter II. Harrison is a candidate
for mayor in 1928 The best evidence
of this is the letter he writes from
Germany to Judge John E. Owens.
West Side Boulevards are ignored
almost entirely by teamsters who
drive across them at will and endan-
ger people in autos.
John Kellyander is going to have
his own troubles putting an end to
home brew in Chicago.
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We have heard a great deal of the
Lincoln Highway and there is a road
full of "detours" by that name. But
where it begins or ends we have
never met a man who could tell
John A. Carroll, the Hyde Park
banker is the type of man who would
make an ideal Sanitary Trustee.
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