Cudahy Packing Plant Suffers Damage to Amount of $200,000.
South Omaha, Aug. 21.-Fire in the plant of the Cudahy Packing company in this city caused a loss of $200,000. From the Cudahy plant the fire spread to the Union stockyards plant and hog pens to the value of $50,000 were burned.
Those pens were filled with hogs ready for market and it was necessary to drive the animals into the streets. As a result several thousand fat hogs are roaming over the business streets of the town.
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