Fire strikes the Chicago Stock Yards
Subtitle: a history of flame and folly in the jungle
By: John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder
Contributors: Burkholder, Alex A.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781609499075
Subjects: History; Fires; Fire; Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago
Description: "Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including 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 roll 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 ... For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Life in the jungle; title: The great fire was only the start; title: Death in a very small place; title: A city in mourning; title: Horan and Custer; title: Prophets without honor; title: the flames that almost swallowed Chicago.