[PDF.96ar] Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle (Disaster)

Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle (Disaster)

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 | #1335055 in Books |  2013-02-12 |  2013-02-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.31 x6.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 160 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting look at early 20th century Chicago|By lindapanzo|Many people are aware of the hazards of the Chicago stockyards, thanks to Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions). What most people aren't aware of is how often, and how dangerous, the stockyards were for fires and those who had to fight them.

A few days before Christmas, in 1910, the Chic|About the Author|A retired on-air reporter for WGN-TV/ Radio, John Hogan is the author of "A Spirit Capable: The Story of Commonwealth Edison."||Alex Burkholder was an investigative news producer for WGN-TV/Radio. He is a founding member of the Fire Museum of Gr

Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse--the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as par...

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