GREAT FIRE IN CHICAGO.
TWENTY-FOUR FIREMEN KILLED; PATHETIC SCENES. • New York, December 23. A terrible fire broke out in the Morris Company's packing warehouse at Chicago. .At one time the whole of the stockyards were threatened: Falling walls overwhelmed firemen and employees, twenty-four firemen and a clerk being killed, and fifty firemen and employees injured. An explosion of ammonia pipes injured other firemen. , The Mayor, Mr. Busse, had a narrow jscapo from death. The water supply was inadequate. ' The fire broke out again at 'midnight, and .is spreading. Additional firemen aa%'e been ordered out/ The Chief, of, the Fire Brigade, the issistant-Cuief, and all their, lieutenants irere killed. Pathetic scenes occurred at the under. ;akers' establishments, where todies ivhich. were unrecognisable were being alaced in coffins for burial.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 December 1910, Page 5
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128GREAT FIRE IN CHICAGO. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 December 1910, Page 5
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