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Stockyard fire, December 1910
Photographer: Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum
Taken: December 23, 1910
Caption: Stockyard fire, December 1910
Additional Description: Caption: "View of firefighters crowded below the spot where Fire Chief Jim Horan's body was found at the Nelson Morris and Company stockyards fire in the Union Stockyards, Chicago, Illinois, December 23, 1910. Twenty-one firemen were crushed to death under a falling wall at a fire in Nelson Morris and Company's meat storage house on December 22-23, 1910."
Submitted: April 2, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
Database Locator Identification Number: p782139
File Size: 0.072 Megabytes

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