A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle (Disaster Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago&’s storied meatpacking district.Chicago&’s Union Stock Yards made the city &“the hog butcher of the world,&” but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous history includes 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 part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, &“It&’s all right, we're fully covered.&” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 179 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781614238621
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781609499075
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/17/23
- Copyrighted By:
- John F. Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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