Chicago Firemen Escape Blaze Which is Fatal to One.
Chicago, March 20.-One man was killed and 300 head of cattle were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a square block of the huge network of pens in the Union Stock Yards here.
The body of the man trapped by the flames was found in the wreckage of a viaduct that fell among the perishing beasts below. A number of firemen narrowly escaped being crushed when the structure fell. Various commission firms owned the cattle destroyed. The loss is $25,000.
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