Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1926, Page 10

FROGE UNDER WAY INTO FATAL LA {11 Dead, 43 Injured When Steel Company Plant Is Wrecked. | By the Associated Press. GARY, Ind., June 15.—Cause of the fexplosion which wrecked the by- products plant of the Illinois Steel {Co. here vesterday, taking a toll of 111 Mves and injuring 43, several pos- ibly fatally, not be known until ia thorough investization has been made, officials said today. Pending this investigation which is iynder way, K. M. Burr, safety in- ! spector at the plant, said mnothing would be given out by the company. | The dead iInclude Leslie Richardson, mill foreman; four other white men iand six negroes. { While company officials would ven- iture no estimate as to the property ‘damage, several persons familiar Avith the plant, which covered an area equal to two city blocks, said it un- doubtedly would reach millions. | Five of the victims died instantly. | They were at one of the large coke | ovens when it exploded. ~Walls of | the building collapsed and the roof was blown into fragments. Coal tar and aclds drenched the victims and fire broke out in the debris, hamper- ing rescue work. The blast, several survivors said, occurred in the saturator of a coke oven. FOUR DIE IN EXPLOSION. Five Others Injured at Standard Oil Co. Plant. ALTON, 1ll, June 15 (#).—Four men were killed and five injured in | Aan explosion and fire at the refinery of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana at Wood River yesterday. An explosion, the cause of which is unknown, oc- curred in the lquid asphalt mixing tank. A pitch still nearby was ignited where were employed the men killed or injured. The bodies of the men killed were burned so badly that identification was difficult. Damage to the plant was slight. i it sl e ‘Will Study Language. First Lieuts. John C. Hamilton, Cav- alry, and Francis B. Valentine, Alr Service. have been ordered to Parls to study the French language, and First Lieut. Alexander T. McCone, Field Ar- tillery, to Madrid to study the Spanish language. —VWithout AsTeN A= g Question I—Ou'its Marines Today | e AUGUST PLEFG BOOMER IS KNIGHTED. Hotel Man Gets French Legion of Honor Citation in New York. NEW YORK, June 15 (#).—Lucius M. 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