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Show Chicago Is Wild. CHICAGO, Nov, 11. Chicago turned wpoy-turvy in the wildest celebration in its history tuday. The deiirium of iov which greeted the real news of the war's giand finale began ut 1:55 o'clock this morning and steadily increased as the day wore on. With the first tooling of the whistles crowds began to pour from the hotels. Half an hour later, as the clamor of church bells and the shrieking of sirens spread the glad tidings to all parts of the1 city, parades were started. Hy 8 o'clock It was a crowd. ' By 10 it was a throng. By noon it was a mob beating dishpajQS, plowing bonis, waving Hags. shrieking. Jeering and w?feping. j There was no semblance of order in the solid mass .f humanity which surged through the streets blocking street car; traffic. Business was abandoned. Factories, stores, hanks, offices, schools closed. Those who had come downtown to work joined the merrymakers in the streets. Police reserves called from outlving districts dis-tricts smiled and waved their hands helplessly. help-lessly. Tons of paper thrown from ol'tied buildings fell on the crowds and piled high up in the streets. At several points boniires were built on the car tracks and schedules were abandoned. Among the paraders were several funeral fu-neral corteges paying a joyous tribute to the end of the kaiser. One of these consisted con-sisted of a solemn-faced band, playing hopin's death march, a black hearse bearing a black casket, which was inscribed in-scribed '-The kaiser's coffin lie's going where lie belongs.'' and a long procession of mourners with black bands around their hats. Kver "nd anon the procession would stop, and one of the "mourners" would emit a howl and turn a somersault amid frantic applause. And then the procession would continue. Seven persons were Killed and score or more mjured during the dav's demonstrations. dem-onstrations. All of the fatalities'- and Injuries In-juries were due to accident the reckless filing of weapons or automobile speeders. |