FORTY LIVES LOST.
FIRE IN A CRIB. : THIRTY BURNED OR DROWNED. : EXPLOSION FOLLOWS. fBT TKLBGBAFH—PIIESS ASSOCIATION—COPrIttOHT.) (Rec. January 21, 11.25 p.m.) ; ; , ■-. New York, January 21. A fire in a floating crib (a . water-tight shaft), by which access was gained to an aqueduct constructed under Lake Mioliigan (Chicago), burned to death twenty men. Ten others were drowned. Meanwhile tho fire caused an explosion ill one of the tunnels of the aqueduct, killing ten workers.
~' [When the former water supply became insuf-' ficient for. tho rapidly-growing'city,' Chicago drovo tunnels under Lake Michigan to , obtain a larger supply.. The total length of the tunnels is stated at four miles.] ■■ . ■
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19090122.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
106FORTY LIVES LOST. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in