Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — FIRE VICTIMS BURIED [ARTICLE]

FIRE VICTIMS BURIED

Nearly Every Section in Chicago Sees Funeral Corteges. Funerals of the victims of the stock yards fire was begun in Chicago and continued until Tuesday, when the bodies of the last of the twenty-four men killed by the- falling wall were laid awAy, Three of the funerals. Including that of Assistant CL ! ef Burroughs, passed through crowds making ready for Christmas. Nine more were held Sunday. Eleven of the heroes, including Chief Horan, 1 were carried to their graves Monday. While al] Chicago felt its bereavement as soon as the results of the fire were heralded, its true meaning came home to thousands of citizens who watched the slow processions of the first funerals, marked by long rows of uniforms and of carriages filled with men known in public life. Almost every section of the city ssw at least one cortege of s similar nature. Mayor Busse formally appointed Assistant Chief Charles Seyferlich to succeed James Horan as fire marshal of Chicago.