Chicago, Illinois
Illinois Steel Company Accident
January 29, 1902
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT
SOUTH CHICAGO
MOLTEN IRON DELUGES MEN
ONE DEAD AND THREE OTHERS WILL NOT LIVE
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
Chicago, Jan. 29 -- In an accident known as a "slip" at the plant of the
Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago early today Mitchell Bronish
was killed
and John Polackowich and three others, names unknown, were so severely injured
that they will probably die.
The steel company refused to make known the cause of the accident, but it is
thought the cold weather chilled the molten iron at the top of the blast furnace
No. 10 until it hardened and clogged. Then, when the men opened the vent
at the bottom to draw off the metal the whole mass fell down, forcing the
seething metal out upon the workmen with a splash. The men were covered
from head to foot with the white-hot metal. Polackowich crazed with pain
and wrapped in a sheet of flame, ran screaming toward the lake. He was
overtaken, however, and the flames extinguished. The injured men were
carried to the company's hospital.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN 29 Jan 1902
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