Show I ea n I r ij 1 IS I 1 i I Is lO S I STOCKYARD I BLAZE Thousands of Stockers and Hogs in Pens as I Kansas City Plant Is IsI I Damaged by Flames I By United Press I 1 KANSAS ANSAS CITY Mo Oct 16 The Kansas Cit City Stockyards company com com- pany pallY in a preliminary statement this noon estimated that battie cattie cat bat tie and hogs were lost in the fire Tire wl which ch con consumed umed part of the yards ds t t today day Twenty-five Twenty acres were burned over the statement I s id All railways except the MisI Missouri Mis- Mis J I Pac Pacific ic have issued an embargo embargo em em- bargo against cattle shipments to Kansas City until conditions regain re re- gain normal By International News New Service K KANSAS CITY Crry Mo Oct 1 is Thousands of cattle and hogs I perished in a fire which broke outi out i in ill the Kansas City stockyards at 2 3 o 0 clock o'clock this morning and burned until daybreak destroying ton acres I of pens cattle and aud Estimates Estimates Esti Esti- mates of the loss run as l high gh as I cattle and 2000 hogs bogs Although officials said it was impossible im impossible im- im pOl possible to make a estimate of ot j the monetary loss it Is believed t f I be bo close to a million dollars i Speculators In cattle were tho I losers Hundreds of cattle I and hogs hots were vero driven from pens and mingled in the lie streets and other parts 1 of the yards so o that it will be impossible impossible impo sible for the owners to identify their property Most 1 of the burned were stockers the beef cattle ing Most of the fire companies of Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City Mo Io and several from Kani Kansas Kan- Kan i sas City Kan Ran are nrc on duty lUty at the this I y yards today trying tring to extinguish the flames which still smolder in tho the burned areas Company B n of ot the Second Second Sec See ond regiment of homo home guards ards was called out Immediately y arter after the fire tire was discovered and within thirty nun nun- utes fifty members were at th the yards The guards are arc patrolling the burned district All of the old frame Irame I were destroyed The burned bodies of hogs and cattle were piled viled high Inmany inmany in many parts of or the tho yards ards W W. v. v H. H Weeks assistant general manager of the Stockyards company said the task of estimating losses lossel would virtually be an Impossible one The run of cattle yesterday was 41 41 I head almost a It record None one of the company officials would say that a war plot was suspected in the fire They said however that a thorough investigation tion would be made in an effort t to learn how bow the tire fire start started d The TIle hundreds of heads of cattle and hogs which became mixed In th the streets and pens will be he sold by the directors of or the tho livestock exchange and the amount realized then probably probably probably ably will ill be distributed py Dv txie cir clr circuit court In accordance with evi eyt dence thence submitted by owners as ns to the number they had in the yards ard As a result rosult of tho the fire there was no market at tho the st stockyards today The fire is one of a series which have burned areas of or tho the stockyards In the last few ye years rs The company ha bias lias been replacing the burned sec sec- I lions with concrete fireproof pens and I houses KANSAS SAS CITY Mo Io Oct fh Tup causo cause of the blaze has lIas not beon been df tie but rumors of or m maro aro arc without confirmation Stockmen today believed tho the fire W was ts caused by sparks from a passing engine The fire lire started in the speculators specula tors' tors section in the north en enl end l of the yards ards and spread rapidly until at 4 4 o'clock it looked as If the en sn- tir tim yards with more than I cattle would be consumed Fire Fir companies companies com corn made rapid headway however howEY r I and saved the major part of the yards yarda Several scale houses houEs were I C Continued o on iago i ii i 2 I IS LOSS LOSSI I Continued from p page e 1 1 but the fire did not reach any of the larger structures J J J. B. B Dill assistant chief of the KanI Kansas Kan Kan- I sas sus City Kan fire department and 1 head of the first fire company to arrive on the tho scene scene- of the stockyards fire said he firmly believed the fire was started by an incendiary lIe He said saidI j I quantities of ha hay were burning In sucha such i a wa way as to Indicate I- I Federal authorities probably will investigate In Investigate in- in I to determine whether the fire tire can be traced to German agents |