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500 Horses Burned.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 26, 1917

     East St. Louis, Sept. 26-Five hundred horses are believed to have been burned to death in a fire this afternoon which is reported to be sweeping over the National Stockyards. Four blocks of the yards have been wiped out at 2 o’clock. The damage was estimated at that time to be $200,000.

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