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Show I Downward Sweep So Rapid, It! ! Was Hard to Fill Orders ! i at Quotations j CHICAGO. May 21. Prices came! 'down belter skelter today on the board' (of trade. All grain and provisions join-led join-led in the big tumble. Corn and porkj underwent extreme breaks respective- j !b". 7c a bushel and $2.05 a barrel, j jJuly delivery of cornouching as low' !as Sl.G-Hfc and July pork $31.75. ! Belief that a drasticc order would be issued for the railroads to move' I grain on a priority basis was largely i lesiponslble for a selling stampede, 1 that caused the smash in values. Much j ;of the selling appeared to be in the na-i turo of unloading by holders who no i I longer saw a chance for profits on tho j j bull side of the market, j Tho downward sweep of the mar-ikets mar-ikets was so rapid that it was almost impossible to fill orders; I at blackboard quotations. House?. ; with country connections were cs-I cs-I peclally active in the selling. Tight-! Tight-! ening of credits received continued r.o-I r.o-I tlce as a bearish factor nnd so, too. did extension of department store price' ! cutting in widely distant cities. ! i i |