The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-10-13
FIRE al SIOUX
CITY STOCK YARD!
Hay Barns Burn Threatening to
Consume Mostsof the
Pens.
loss FROM $4,000 10 $4,000
Icive Head or Cnttle Terished. But
the Thousnnds Witch Mere
III Danger Mere
Driven Gut.

Sioux City, Ia, Oct. 9.-The
prompt response and efficient wors
OF the fire department was all
that saved the stock yards from u
costly confagration Sunday after
noon, which would have cremated
Thousands of head of live stock and
destroyed much valuable property.
About 2 O'Clock a blaze, presumably
caused by a spark from a passing en-
CINE started in N of the hay barns
at the extreme north end of the
yards. There WIS brisk wind blow
ing from the northwest and before
the flames were controlled they had
licked up two big hay barns, a horse
barn, twenty-five cattle pens and
about five. head of cattle. entaiiinga
loss estimated by the stock yards COM
pany at between $4,000 and $4,000.
AS soon as the loss, which is covered
by insurance, is adjusted. new and
more commodious buildings will be
erected in place of the ones destroyed.
The men comprising the unloading
Agangg,set work about one block south
Of Sthe scene of the fire, Were the first
to discover the blaze and almost 81
fundamentally an alarm Was sounded
from the stock yards pumping sta
tion, located just north of the hay
barns. just then d small sized panic
ensued in the yards. Quite II number
of the employees of commission firms
were in the pens looking after con-
sfgnments which had been arriving
all morning, and they all rushed
through the alleys to the north end
In the hope Of saving the stock in
the yards adjoining the burning build
inEs. When the men arrived the two
big hay barns which ad.ioin each 9TH
,er- were one seething mass of flames.
Out Of the horse barn, adjoining,
twenty head Of borsss We're taken
through the blindiltg smoke.
Five Cattle lfurned.
A force OF. men then, headed by
John Ryan, Walter Strange and John
Anthony, attempted to rescue the
cattle in the pens, There We're about
500 head in the enclosures belonging
to spectators and the gates of each
pen were locked. This was no bar
rier, however, as they we're lifted off
their hinges. The fences were already
nblaze when the cattle were turned
loose in the alleys and driven south.
Five head which turned into a side
alley and We're lost in the smoke We're
burned. By this time the fire wagons
were dashing up the marrow alleys. a
general alarm had been given on ac-
count of the extremely int1ammable
condition of the yards and every hose
cart in the city was quickly on the
scene. The fire was a very hot m
and for about twenty minutes the
tiremen had their heaas full. The
wind carried fir. brands into the air
and dropped them in pens several
blocks south, where small blazes were
started, but the.l were all put out be-
fore they gained much Roadway. In
half an hour after the fire started it
was completely under control, but all
the barns and pens in which the
flames were confined were totally de-
stroyed.
Much Stock Ti1erc.
There were about 5000 head of cat
tie in the yards Mt the time and COM
mission men and yard men were in
their alleys ready to run off their cat
At the Exchange building there was
considerable excitement, as the wind
carried the smoke in that direction.
The lower hall was flooded with water
and the hose and fire protection in the
building was made ready for action.
General Manager John u. Keene,
who was at the fire, said that the hay
barns would be repleacedH at once by
more c~ommodious buildings. The
pens destroyed were q part of the old
central stock yards. About two years
ago they were the scene of a smaller
fire when a scale house, a number Of
pens and about a dozen head OF cattle