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TODAY? STORY OF THE CANNERIES TELLS HOW WORKERS LIVE IN PIG STYES THE DAY BOOK -500 SO. FEORIA ST. - 3$8 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,NO,5jt Chicagp, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1912 ONE CENT EXPLOSIVE EXPERT. CLAIMS .THERE WAS NO EXCUSE FOR TJHE WAUKEGAN DISASTER Washington, Nov. 26. "There was no excuse for the explosion in the Corn 'Products Refining plant at Waukegan,' 111., yester day." This was the emphatic declara tion of Prof. Charles, E. Monroe, explosive expert of the Bureau of Mines, today. f "Such explosions 'come from the presence in the factory atmos phere of firtely-diyided inflamma ble material flour, sugar, starch and the like," he said. "They may easily be prevented by keeping such material1 in chambers where it is-japt exposed to the air while being reduced to powder. "The presence of electricity in such dangerous places can easily be avoided ''There is absolutely no excuse for the existence of such danger ous conditions in modern factories." The Standard Oil company's death toll-of one day: At Waukegan: Six known dead; three dying; four ,with small chance of 'recovery; two to five missing. At Brooklyn: Fifteen burned and crushed, five fatally;' six re ported killed.- . A death list of fifteen was the largest, admitted today by the of ficials of the Corn Products Co., of Waukegan, whose plant was destroyed by fire after an unne cessary explosion yesterday. But the death list, when, all are, accounted for, may be much greater. ' Hundreds of volunteers are wprking. among the ruins today, desperately digging in the hope of finding; some one still alive, . And round the ruins has gath ered a frenzied crowd of women relatives of the missing. , Coroner John L. Taylor of Lake county has started the in vestigation to fix the blame for the explosion. He impanelled a jury of mer chants'to find o.ut the cause of the. explosion in the Standard Oil Co.'s $80,000,000 starch company. The jury inspected the ruins today; then adjourned until after the funeral of the victims.