Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — HOLOCAUST IN CHICAGO; MANY FIREMEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

HOLOCAUST IN CHICAGO; MANY FIREMEN KILLED.

Chief of Department Horan and 30 Others Lost In Explosion at Mor. rls Co’s. Packing Plant. Special to The Republican. Chicago, Dec. 22.—James Horan, chief of the Chicago fire department; Assistant Chief Burroughs and thirty firemen lost their lives this morning in a fire at the beef building of the Nelson Morris company’s plant at the Union Stock Yards. The fire was raging for some time before an explosion occurred that wrecked the old beef building an<f buried beneath the walls the chief and nis gallant assistants. Twenty-eight bodies had been recovered by noon and at least two more bodies were buried in the debris of falling brick.