Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
Over the stockyards fence jumped the flames, began gnawing at the cheap little houses along Halsted Street. Three blocks of them had been licked up before 3,000 firemen and a shifting wind brought the conflagration under control. Toll: eight blocks of buildings; 1,200 homeless; 25 hospitalized; three missing; one dead. Verdict: worst since...
Almost 1,000 firemen remained on duty, pouring water on the ruins of what had been the greatest, stockyards in the world and eight blocks of yards, homes and business houses adjacent
...Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies-seven black, seven white. Three others died later. From Washington Relief Administrator Hopkins promptly dispatched a special agent to investigate the Federal Government's worst relief disaster this year...
...base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned and ran for their lives. The wind-driven fire chased one mob toward the wharves, up to the water-edge and over into the Bay. Scores drowned. The fire caught others and incinerated them in their tracks. In the early morning the Mayor...