Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

by John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder

Book Overview

Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's 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 toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609499077
• ISBN13: 9781609499075
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"