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UNION STOCKYARDS S WEP TBY FIRE; L OSS IS PIA CEP A T $300,000 Loss Covered by Insurance Neiv Feed Barn, Five Cattle Alleys, Hog Pens and Horse Stables Destroyed Thirty Head of Cattle Burned. ORIGIN OF THE FIRE IS NOT KNOWN

LOST 2,01 EH IN THE FIGHTIIjGJN THE VALU It Also Is Reported that Zassalitch Will Be Court-Martialed for Standing Too Firmly. OUTLINE OF OPERATIONS IT IM II With His Nephew, Harrison J. Barrett, He Is Arraigned for Conspiracy. BOTH PLEAD NOT GUILTY

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Trial to Proceed Without the Presence of the Venerable Stricken Indianian.

SYMPATHY IS EXPRESSED Friends of Mr. Tyner Say He Ij Innocent of Intent to Commit Wrong. Special to the Iniianapol'V Journal. WASHINGTON. May 2 James N. Tyner, of Indiana, former postmaster general, first assistant, second assistant, and later attorney general for the Department, bowed with age and humbled by humiliation, a hopeless paralytic, was brought Into the criminal branch of the District Supreme Court to-day to answer an Indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the government of the United States. rhyslcally incapacitated, hia mental faculties alert and active, this venerable man was carried into court to answer a criminal charge brought by the government he had fcerved more than forty years. Mr. Tyner waa unable to walk, and was carried into the room in an invalid's chair by four deputy marshals. No more pathetic sight has been seerj in a court here for many years. That Mr. Tyner was painfully conscious of his position was evident by his pitiful bearing and the deep misery depicted on his countenance. He was accompanied by Mrs. Tyner, who has steadfastly asserted the Innocence of her husband from the first. Nothing but the deepest sympathy in felt for the aged defendant. "Proceedings would never have been instituted against him.". Postmaster General Payne was heard to exclaim some days go. "if It had not been absolutely necessary in the prosecution of others." This is the universal expression against the au-, thorities of the Postolflce Department. Mr. Tyner is widely known among public men, and during the severe illness which followed his, indictment he had many prominent callers at his house, among them Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts. Mr. Tyner was a member of Congress from Indiana years ago, and has rilled nearly every position of responsibility in the postal service. As a member of the House he drafted the law creating the position of assistant attorney general, which he filled with signal ability for many years. The misfortune that has overtaken him la his old age is 'aid on the shoulders of others. His friends express strong faith in his integrity as an official, and assert vehemently that if thre is anything wrong in his record he erred without Knowing it. THE CHARGES. -IJarison J. B arret t. his nephew, is jointly Indicted with General Tyner. There are two indictments against the defendants. They are practically the same and have been consolidated for the purpose of speedy trials. In one of the indictments it is said that Tyner and Barrett M "unlawf-iily conspire, combine, confede te and agree together to defraud the United states." In the other the offense is that thev "conspired to commit an offense against the United States. tha,t is to say, the offen. of misconduct on the part of him (Tvner.)" It is explained in the indictments that it was the duty of Tyner. as assistant attorney general for the Postofflce Department to investigate all cases of fhe use of the mails by persons suspected of being engaged in the. prosecution of lotteries and fraudulent schemes that might be brought to his attention by reference from the postmaster generals or otherwise. It is alo aM that Barrett, as law clerk in the oflice of the assistant attorney general, should nave asisted him in this duty, that Darrett determined to resign from his position Die. 31. V.K and had agreed with oni J. Henning Nelms to enter into a partnership with a view of representing before the PostoffUe Department persons using the mails in the prosecution of schemes and plins of business which then and hereafter might be under investigation by Tyner. The specific charges against the defendants is that they conspired to hold up investigation by the Postoffiee Department in certain matters until after Barrett had severed his connection with the department and entered actively into partnership with Nelms. Justice Pritchard indicated to-day that he would not require the constant attendance of General Tyner At the trial. The work of securing a jury had begun when the discovery was made that neither of the defendants had been arraigned. Darrett was in court, but the venerable former postmaster general, now in his reventy-sdxth year, was not present, his counsel having waived all formalities until the jury had been completed in order to Fave his strength. Owing, to the feeble nclth of General Tyner, it was announced that it would take several hours to get him into court. Justice Pritchard thereupon directed a recess. When court met for the afternoon session General Tyner was brought in in an invalid's chair. He was accompanied by his wife, an attendant and his physician, the latter's presence being deemed necesrary because of the fear that the aged defendant might collapse under the strain. Counsel for the defense waived the reading of the indictment, and the two men pleaded not guilty. The work of completing the jury was then resumed. With three challenges left to each side the panel was exhausted, aud court adjourned until to-morrow. Justice Pritchard. after conferring with counsel, announced that owing to the infirm 'condition of General Tyner he would rot be further required to attend court, and that the trial would proceed without him. LOSES ALL HIS MONEY AND JUMPS TO DEATH Member of Wealthy Russian Family Ends His Life at New York. NEW YORK. May 2.-IIIs money dissipated in speculation. Samuel Silverblatt. a member of a wealthy family in Warsaw, Russia, ended his life to-day by jumping from a fourth-story window of an east side lodging house. He and a brother came to the United States a few months ago with the intention of having an exhibit at the St. Louis" exposition. Samuel embarked on u career of speculation and in a few weeks lost all his money. This made the plan of an exhibit impossible and the young man committed suicide. GERMAN IS SLAIN IN FIGHT WITH FOOTPADS NEW ORLEANS. La., May 2.-While retlstirg an attempt of two highwaymen to rob him. Captain Carl Uphoven, of the iteanishlp Alp?, of the United Fruit Company line, was murdered on the lowe to3y. , He was a native of Cologne. GerirAX and waa thiity-flve ytaia old.

Japanese Are Said to Have Had 100,000 Men Either in Action or in Reserve.

ALSO MANY MORE GUNS Which Made Kulien-Cheng Untenable for General Zassalitch's Forces. LO.XDOX, May .'.An unconfirmed report of everr flKlitiiifi? lirtwrrn :t,(MM) KuMsiuiiM and a similar number of Jiiiiiiim at ;'ii-Jnii Im sent ly the Standard's St. Petersburg; correspond dent, vho nyn the Japanese were compelled to retire Into Gen-Snn, both niden losing lienvily. Two Russian officer nre said to have been amoiiK the wounded. ST. PETEnSIltIt,.3Injr .T 4 n. m It Is rumored here tlint the War Office linn been informed Hint the IIunsian cagualtle In the fighting on the Vain numbered 2,HH. It nUn la rumored that General Zassalitch will be court-martialed for mokhiR n. too strenuous stand against the 'Japanese. RUSSIAN OUTLINE OF VALU OPERATIONS ST. PETERSBURG, May 2. The Associated Press has obtained from the general staff an outline of the operations on the LYalu river during the past week. The Rus sian rorce, including the reserves, was composed of General Kashtalinsky's rifle division, General Mistchenko's Cossack outposts and a brigade of artillery, the whole under General Zassalitch. Knowledge of geography is essential to a clear understanding. The Russian lines were at Kulien-Cheng or Turen-Chen, opposite Wiju and Antung. both on the Feng-Wang-Cheng road. A mile north of Kulien-Cheng lies the village of Potietinsky, near a tributary of the Lltzavena. live miles up which is Chin-Gow. On the opposite bank of the tributary is the village of Lltzavena. Opposite Fetletinsky stands Hou-San, with a dominating height. Still higher, on the right of the Yalu, Is the village of Ambikne, at the confluence of the Aipike. The whole course of the Yalu between Ambikne and Antung is divided by Islands, the largest, Somallnda, facing Kulien. Cheng. Another lies between Hou-San and Sindiagow. The Japanese forces, the staff btlieves, approximated 100,000 men, of which four divisions, thirteen battalions and fifty-six guns were in action. The Japanese prepared for crossing the river by posting all their available guns, of which the Russians say the Japanese had five times more than they along the line facing Kulien-Cheng and Antung, and also landed from their warships forty-seven guns. This array of artillery eventually made Kulien-Cheng untenable. Under cover of powerful batteries north of Sindiagow the Japanese crossed to Hou-San. occupying the height. As the latter position would have enabled them to direct a raking fire against the Russians at Kulien-Chen, General Zassalitch- or dered it to be retaken Friday. This was done, hut on Saturday the Japanese, under cover of a battery, reoccupied it, the defenders falling back across the Lltzavena and conti nuing the fight with the Japanese, who were attempting to flank them from Chln-Gow. .The Russian force at Antung' and Kulien-Cheng had meanwhile retreated to its second line, a few miles westward. The whole Russian force engaged yesterday formed a semicircle, the horns of which were being gradually drawn in preparatory to retiring to a position further west. This was the situation when the last Russian official reports were sent. A member of the staff informed the correspondent of the Associated Press that the Issue ultimately turned probably upon whether the order to withdraw was given at the proper time. A slight delay at a critical moment might have enabled the enemy's vastly superior artillery to concentrate on the Russian guns, killing horses and gunners and compelling the abandonment of the guns. But. if so. the Russian (CONTINUED OX PAGE 2. COL. 3.) TWO DOUBLE TRAGEDIES A Oscar Saeger Kills His Sweetheart on Street Corner and Shoots Himself. TWO VICTIMS OF NEGRO CINCINNATI. May 2. At Vine and Canal streets to-day Oscar Saeger shot and killed Maria Gurtner and then shot himself. He is not expected to live. The couple were lovers, but had frequent quarrels and the shooting took place when Miss Gurtner told Saeger that she was going Thursday to New York to live. Jacob Anderson, colored, was shot three times by Dave Roth, colored, in a quarrel here to-day. Joseph Floriod, a white man, was in the yard of his residence near by when the shooting occurred and a stray bullet struck him in the head. He died several houis later. Anderson is in a critical condition. Roth was arrested. WILL WALK ACROSS CONTINENT TO PAY BET CLEVELAND, O.. May 2.-D. B. Evans, of Howling Green. O., started from the city hall here to-day for San Francisco, pushing a wheelbarrow to pay an election bet. Evans wagered that Mayor Johnson would be elected Governor of Ohio last fall, the loser to push a wheelbarrow across the continent from Cleveland to San Francisco and return, and also to make the Journey without money. Evans expects to earn enough to tav his expenses en route.

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AMERICAN AIRSHIP THAI T LIKE A F Dr. Greth Again Tests His Aerostat and Is Satisfied with the Result. MEETS WITH ACCIDENT And Is Forced to Come to Earth After Circling Over Part of San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. Dr. Greth tried to make a trip to Sair Jose in his airship, but after traveling about five miles some slight disarrangement of the machinery was discovered and the voyager was forced to make a landing. Dr. Greth was accompanied by Engineer Frederick liehher. Dr. Greth was satisfied with the results of this experimental llight because he accomplished a good deal more than on former occasions, and from it concluded that he is working in the right direction. He went np at 8:10 a. m., with the -car attached to a rope, which held the monster balloon from doing any damage to the neighboring houses as it started. When the rope was cast off Dr. Greth let his machine rise still higher, and then made a circular figure about a quarter of a mile in circumference. It was evident to those below that he had the machine at that time under perfect control, for he circled around, stopped the engines and started them again, and then started off to the south at a high speed. Everything went well until the ship was over Blankenship's six-mile house, on the San Bruno rr;id. It was then going rapidly toward San Jose, but something went wrong with the machinery which caused the airship to stop. The inventor and the engineer tried to adjust the break, and then after a pause the fans were started going and the ship began to descend. To all appearances the fans were controlling the ship, though it was conceded they were not quite large and powerful enough to meet the resistance of strong wind. The eyewitnesses of the descent said that the airship came down gradually and 5 touched the ground gently, allowing the men in the car to step out. r,otnlng was injured, either In the car or about the gas bag. Dr. Greth stated that what happened could not be set right without certain tools, and he deemed it expedient to descend under the circumstances. The engine Is an automobile machine of fifty-horse power, and it is set up ln-a new frame much larger and stronger than the first gas-pipe frame which carried Dr. Greth up with the former engine. It was demonstrated that, while the fans which raise and lower the airship and also have considerable bearing on the steering are not large enough, yet they did very well under the circumstances. They are to be enlarged, and also the rudder, in order that the ship may be more dirigible. The test was made for the reason that should it become necessary to let the gas out of the balloon the engines should be stopped lest the gasoline spark would explode the reservoir. Engineer Belcher said of his trip: "It was highly successful. Everything went well and all parts of the machinery were in good working order. I am thoroughly satisfied with the test. We could direct the machine. st will, and made several complete turns before descending. The sudden giving way of a small valve led us to descend at the six-mile house." II A RESISTLESS IMPULSE W. A. McDonald Steps in Front of Train and Is Probably Fa-, tally Hurt. VICTIM COURTS PERIL Special to th Indianapolis Journal. MUNC1E, Ind.. May 2. At the Jacksorstreet crossing of the Ft. W., C. & L. railroad, W. A. McDonald was to-night struck by train No. IS and received injuries which may prove fatal. McDonald says he saw his danger but could not resist an impulse which seemed to force him to step In front of the engine. His face was crushed and his hip fractured. The same train on Friday night killed Hugh N. E. Johnson, of Zanesville, Ohio, at a crossing just north of Muncie. FIGHT FOR POSSESSION OF BROKERS' OFFICE NEW YORK, May 2. A struggle for possession of the furnishings In the ofilce ot W. E. Woodand & Co., the suspended stock brokerage firm, which are valued at approximately $10.000, began to-day between Receiver Gruber and Harry C. Johnston who had taken possession of the effects by virtue of an attachment. United States Judge Holt has signed an order directing William E. Woodand. Mrs. Wocdand. the attorneys in all the litigation, the employes of Woodand & Co.. his personal employes and the city marshal to appear in the United States District Court before Samuel M. Hitchcock, specially appointed examiner, and be examined concerning "the acts, conduct and property" of Vo;?dan&. . r

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BE TIED DP BY OF EMPLOYES Twelve Thousand Men, It Is Said, Will Be Affected by Trouble on Safita Fe. STRENGTH TEST TO-DAY Railway Official Declares the Strike Will Be of No Considerable Magnitude. WASHINGTON, May 2. Over SCO machinists and a large number of allied workers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad were reported out on a strike up to 6 o'clock this afternoon. When the whole striking strength Is brought out, embracing not only the machinists, but the Allied Metal Mechanics' Association, boiler makers, blacksmiths, copper workers, helpers, etc., as well, the total number Involved, according to President O'Connell, of the Machinists Union, may approximate between 10,000 and 12,000 men. The strike was ordered on instructions from headquarters here, after the men along the line had voted unanimously in favor of the step. A telegram to-day from John Mulholland, of Toledo, national president of the Allied Metal Mechanics, announced that he. has ordered his men to co. operate with the machinists. Mr. O'Connell said to-night that the men were prepared to continue the strike indefinitely; that they were asking only the same -working agreement now in operation on other railroads and a discontinuance of the spotter and detective system, which, he said, is carried on by the company "to a shameless degree." v CHICAGO, May 2. Third Vice President Kendrick, of the iranta Fe system, said relative to, the machinists' strike which was declared on the Santa Fe to-day: "The shops of the company were not ojened to-day because we had received In-' formation from three independent sources to the effect that a strike had been ordered to occur this morning. When they are reopened, as they probably will be to-morrow morning, the magnitude of the strike can be definitely ascertained. Within a week or ten days the company will have a full force In all shops. "The number of men directly controlled by the Machinists' Union is not large, and the labor market Is in such condition Just now as to make It perfectly practicable to obtain plenty of skilled labor in any department." PUEBLO. Col., May 2. Judge Walter Nixon, in the District Court, issued an order restraining the machinists of the Santa Fe at Denver, Pueblo. Lajunta and Trinidad from going on a strike. No men had gone out here, and only a few had obeyed the strike'order at Lajunta. WEALTHY NEW YORK BREWER ENDS LIFE NEW YORK, May 2. James H. Stroble, aged forty-five, a wealthy brewer, committed suicide at his residence on West Eightyfifth street to-day by Inhaling illuminating gas. II TATE IS Fl GUILT? OFMAHSLAUGHTER Jury Returns Verdict Against Slayer of John Hodges at Huntingburg. RECORD AGAINST HIM Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PETERSBURG, Ind., May 2. The jury of the Tate murder case to-night returned a verdict finding Howard "Tate guilty, of manslaughter for killing John Hodges at Huntingburg last December. At one time to-day six of the jurors favored hanging. four second degree murder and two were for acquittal. The Jurors were re-instructed a number of times by Judge Ely. Tate received the verdict apparently unmoved. Tate to-day declared that he was no meaner a man than either of the Johnson boys of Kentucky who, it is said, came here to avenge the death of their father. Nothing has been seen of the Johnson boys for the last few days and it is thought that they have either returned home or kept in hiding here in secret waiting for the verdict. Tates wife Is still remaining true to her husband and the trial will cost her about Tate killed Hodges during a quarrel in a boarding house at Huntingburg and in the trial Tate claimed the shooting was done in self-defense. Tate's record as a "killer" was against him and he feared the Jury would be in favor of inflicting the death penalty. More I'nionint Deported. TRINIDAD. Col.. May 2.-Sixteen men were deported to-night by order of Major Hill. In charge of an officer and squad of soldiers the party were taken on special train to New Mexico. The arrested men were dwported. for violatioas of military lav,.

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TO-DAY TO DECIDEJ-OCAL ISSUES Remarkable Campaigns Close at Terre Haute, Lafayette and Other Places. PARTY LINES NOT DRAWN Sharp Contests Expected Where Citizens Are Dissatisfied with Present Administration. Municipal elections will be held In nearly all of the principal cities of Indiana today, and, while the campaign has been waged in most cases on local Issues, contests in many of the cities will be close and spirited. Republicans at Terre Haute exIect to win a victory because of the bossism methods of the Steeg administration and because of the unusual strength shown by Bidaman. the Republican candidate. At Lafayette the attempt of the Democrats to. control 'ih election boards, 'which was frustrated by action of the court, is expected to react in favor of the Republican ticket. Wabash undoubtedly will maintain its reputation as a city where not a Democrat Is on the city pay roll. Republicans at Lngansport have hopes of electing McKee over Vaughn, the Democratic candidate, despite the fact that the city normally is Democratic by a small majority. At Huntington one of the bitterest fights in the history of the town ended in a nasty mudslinging affair and several personal encounters between prominent men were averted only by the interference of friends. Washington expects to redeem the city from the control of Democrats. The Republicans expect to vindicate the policy ot the New Albany Republican Council, which reduced the water rates. Municipal ownership is the issue at Richmond, and Democrats are trying to make capital out of the fact that the electric light plant has not made money, but Mayor Zimmerman's supporters are confident he will be elected. Dissatisfied Democrats, it is believed, will aid In the election of William Cox at Covington. Republicans believe they will control the Council at Shelbyvllle, and have strong hopes of electing the entire city ticket. The extensive public Improvements made by the Republicans at Connersville have caused some complaint, and Democrats have seized this as a campaign argument, but the Republicans have no doubt of electing the entire ticket by safe majorities. TRICK OF DEMOCRATS REACTS AT LAFAYETTE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind., May 2.-On the eve of one of the most spirited city elections in years both Republicans and Democrats are already claiming a victory. The election of Henry Rosenthal for mayor seems assured, although the followers of George Durgan, the Democratic nominee, are wagering even money on their candidate, and some large bets are being placed. The ln(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. COL. 1.) BACKED UP HIS DEMAND WITH HIE REVOLVER Charles E. Gualph, of Kansas City, Objected to Telephone Charge to New York. TRAVELS IX PRIVATE CAR Because he thought a charge of $3 exorbitant for a long distance telephone message to New York city, a man giving his name as Charles E. Gualph. of Kansas City, Mo., is said to have called upon Munson D. Atwattr, manager of the Central Union Telephone Company, and Demanded at the point of a .41-calibre revolver that his money be returned. It is stilted that Mr. Atwater acced-d to the stranger's demands under the ieculiar and persuasive circumstances, and requested his caller to proceed with him to the treasurer's office, where the money would be forthcoming. On the way Patrolman Paulsell was encountered, and Mr. Gualph. of Kansas City, next appeared at the police station, where he was charged with carrying and drawing concealed weapons. , A prison cell was not intended for him! however, for he produced a roll of. bills which startled Turnkey Mackrssey, and was forced to hunt for bills of mall denominations in order to count out the insignificant sum of $00. which was demanded as bail. He stated that he was a Kansas City business man. was traveling in his private car, and that should It be necessary several of the most influential citizens of Indianapolis would be glad to go on his bond. Mr. Atwater is quoted as saying that if the objection had been reasonably presented to him and he had been shown that the charge was exorbitant he would have been glad to rectify uui- error.

IN INDIANA

j Heavy Wind and Lack of W ater Pressure Scvcrc- ! ly Handicapped Firemen Entire Yards Threatened at One Time.

Fanned and scattered headlong by a ; heavy wind from the north, fire of un- ! known origin partially destroyed the Union ! Stockyards in West Indianapolis cirly this morning. The blaze was discovered at 11:15 o'clock by Night Watchman W. D. Castor and his assistant, Melvin Hodge, in the large feed barn, which was but recently . built. Within half an hour after the alarm was .turned in, so rapid was the spread of the fire that the feed barn. Cattle Alleys S00 and 400 and part of 300 were a burning wreck and completely destroyed. In the face of the efforts of the firemen the fire spread raoidly, working its way first down towards the south end of the alleys 4C0 and 300, whence it spread to the remaining alleys and then turned towards the north ond. ending in the complete destruction of nil the cattle sheds and hog pens before it could be gotten under control. Only about thirty head of cattle were loat in the conflagration. LOSS OF $.000. Samuel Rauh, president of the Union Stockyards Company, at 2:15 o'clock this morning, estimated the loss at not less than $300,000.. He would make no statement concerning Insurance other than to say that the loss would be fully covered. The insurance was placed by the Union Trust Company. W. B. Blair, president of the Blair-Baker Horse Company, at 1 o'clock this morning estimated the loss at $250,000. Shortly before 3 o'clock this morning the fire had been gotten under control by the fire department, and it was thought that no further loss would result. The sales stables were saved by the concentrated efforts of the firemen, who, although handicapped by the low pressure of water, battled 'bravely against the flying sparks and burninc brands. The northeast end of the stables were sprayed with chemicals time and again, and this in a great degree was responsible for the cut in the course of the fire. Had the flames ever got beyond control among the sales stables the entire stockyard3 would have been literally wiped out. Although still burning the five long rows of cattle pens were a mass of embers at 3 o'clock. Considering with what strength the wind blew from the north, it was regarded as remarkable that the flames were kept within the limits of the pens. LIGHT STOCK OF CATTLE. Luckily the stock of cattle at the yard3 was unusually light last night and of the 200 head in the sheds only about 30 were burned. As the fire broke out in the feed barn, some little time was given the men to move the cattle from the doomed sheds to the large pasture which lies Just south of the yards. Two carloads of cattle had been received late yesterday evening and it was some of these that could not be hurried out before the wind had carried the flames to the cattle alleys. One carload of cattle which burned belonged to J. A. Christy, of Hendricks county. There were twenty-one head of cattle and two calves in the car. Several of the cattle were 1.600 pound steers. Mr. Christy estimated his loss at $1,600. Shortly before 1 o'clock the wind which had blown almost a gale subsided and it was thought the fire was under control, although the sheds were on fire in a hundred places and as many men were fighting them. None knew but that at any minute the flames would break out fiercely at some place where a spark had fallen, and tbs greatly Increased the difficulty under which the fire department labored. In the feed barn where the fire started there were stored 1,700 tons of hay valued at from $12 to $17 a ton, and 50.000 bushels of corn valued at $10,000. The total loss estimated on the barn and the cattle sheds is $250,000. not including the loss on the feed and cattle burned, which is estimated at over $20,000. In addition there were many articles of value in the feed barn, between seven and eight tons of hay in alleys 500 and 400, and 100 barrels of tar stored in one of the adjoining sheds, which caught fire and was consumed amid leaping flames. ORIGIN OF FIRE UNKNOWN. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have caught from a combustion in the northeast corner of the feed barn, as it was discovered within the walls of the stable. The alarm was turned in by Night Watchman Castor and the entire fire department was called out. A few minutes before the fire was discovered one of the assistant watchmen had made the beat around the feed barn and everything seemed to be quiet. Scarcely ten minutes later an engine on a nearby track began blowing its whistle frantically, and Castor, running out. beheld smoke pouring from the roof of the feed stable. Almost before he reached the alarm the gigantic stable was a seething mass cf flames, which were caught up by the heavy wind blowing down the river valley and

swept to the cattle sheds on the fouth. When the barn collapsed, the flames shot up towards the sky and a veritable fireworks of sparks and burning embers wer scattered broadcast over fhe cattle sheds, which were soon cn fire. Alley 500 was first to fall before the flames. It was nearest the feed barn and the flames literally licked up the dry timbers coated with tar. Alley 41, immediately adjoining, was soon a mass of flames and thence the fire spread to alley 300, with the firemen fighting from the roofs in the very face of the wind swept flames. The fire was a difficult one to fight because of the hard wind from the worst possible direction and the extent and dimensions of the fire. The heavy lines of hose had to be carried 200 and 30 feet and hauled over sheds and roofs, and willing hands seemed to be greatly lacking, the firemen working almost unaided. The supply of water was too woefully low, and the firemen were handicapped in this respect. FIREMEN HANDICAPPED. When the lire department arrived on the scene the entire stockyards seemed doomed, so disastrously were the flames spreading and the sparks scattering. To effectively combat the blaze the firemen were forced to take up a position ou the roofs of the cattle shed In the face of the f wind, which carried the fire headlong before it. Around them the sky rained large sparks aud burning clots of hay and embers, forcing them frequently to abandon their work with the hose to fight incipient blazes on the tar-covered roofs about them. A large force of men was kept busy continually running over the roofs about them fighting these new outbreaks of windfanned flames. Practically nothing could be done toward extinguishing the fire until the ' heavy wind subsided, and at 1 o'clock this morning it va? secik-k-?'! other two alleys were" doomed. The firemen had succeeded In fighting t le fire back from the west end of the sheds in the effort to keep It away from the horse pens, but at the south end of the long cattle sheds the wind blew the flames straight into the two remaining alleys, which are 00 feet in length, and the fir seemed to gather new strength and headway. It appeared then that the entire line of alley would succumb to the terrible fire. HOG PENS THREATENED. At the extreme south end of th cattle shed were the pig pens, into which the sparks poured like a rain of shot. Great difficulty was met there in fighting down the outbreaks because of the heaVy smoke which the wind blew over this part of the yards. However, all pigs and hogs were removed from the pens, and, with the cattle, wtre taken to the Interstate stockyards. When the fire broke out and was scattered over the entire yards there were many stock car3 on the near-by tracks. Engines were brought at once to begin hauling them away. Many of them, however, were set on fire by the flying embers, and the outskirts of the yards seemed to bo in flames. Several of the cars were completely destroyed. HORSE STABLES THREATENED. At 2:15 o'clock the fire at the south efl of the remaining cattle sheds had gained such proportions that all hope of saving the sheds was 'abandoned and attention was turned to the stables in which the horses were kept, which are stationed to the west of the alleys, and which were in immediate peril. To-day being auction day, about five hundred horses were in the stables, and men began removing them with as much caution as possible. There t

was great excitement among the animals, many of them ttemptlng to break away in their fright. One horse which succeeded In breaking his bonds rushed madly into the flames and to his doom and a general stampede was narrowly averted. Frcm a spectacular point of view the fire was all that could be imagined. Above the whole wild scene the sky seemed aflame with burning masses of wind-tossed hay and flying sparks, while the feed barn, where the baled hay was piled some fifty . feet high was a pyramid of glowing fire at which the wind dug wickedly. When the flames fell into the mass of tar barrels the spectacular Illumination of the fire occurred. The long tongues of fire seemed to reach to. the sky, w hile cloud upon cloud of smoke rolled over the fighting firemen. Shortly after 2 o'clock the fire had completely destroyed the entire line of Alleys and all the buildings south of them, including the hog j c ns . Having burned southward down the entire length of Alley J the ilames worked their way westward on the remamlng two alleys, the wind having shifted slightly to the eastward and ag!n increasing its strength. Handicapped by the low pressure of water, the firemen fought heroically, but under tremendous odds. As the fire gained its way back of th cattle shed it endangered directly the horse and sales stables, which were about thirty fett west of the north ends of ths eilera

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