Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — Lures Birds to Death. [ARTICLE]

Lures Birds to Death.

Gary, Ind.—The great standpipe, which dissipates waste gas of the coke ovens at the Gary steel works by a constant flame, is proving to be the undoing of hundreds of birds. North- I ern birds now on their way south for the winter are attracted by the flame, and as they near it the gas fumes kill them.