This week in history: Chicago Union Stock Yard fire kills 21 firefighters, causes deadly building collapse
On Dec. 22, 1910, a terrible fire broke out at the Union Stockyards on the South Side and burned for over a day. This Chicago Daily News photograph shows a group of firefighters crowded below the spot where Fire Chief Jim Horan’s body was found on Dec. 23. Twenty-one firemen were crushed to death under a falling wall at a fire in Nelson Morris and Company’s meat storage house. Chicago Daily News As reported in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times: Everyone remembers the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but the blaze that left over 300 dead and thousands homeless ...
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