Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — STOCK YARDS FIRE VERDICT [ARTICLE]

STOCK YARDS FIRE VERDICT

No One Held Responsible for the Los* of Twenty-Four Lives. The coroner’s jury which made inquiry at Chicago into the fire at Morris Co’s plant in the srock yards, at which Chief James Horan, Assistant Marshall William J. Burroughs and twenty-two others lost their lives, failed to fix responsibility for the disaster in its verdict. ’ : No one was censured, but many recommendations for improvements were contained in the verdict, which was returr'-d after the jury had teen out twent six hours.