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Show j jIRE UESIKUYS ) j i i Second Largest Yards in Connie Conn-ie 'sr try Ruined Thousands of 3 k-Jfi Cattle Burn. 9i 'J i j THIRD DISASTROUS FIRE . s ' ; V Conflagration Becomes Un-$ Un-$ .1 manageable Before Depart-I Depart-I :l ment Apparatus Arrives. i KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 16 More ! than one-half of the Kansas City stock j yards, the second largest In the coun-5 coun-5 try, was destroyed by fire early to-' to-' iJay. It was estimated, after the fire ,' 3iad been brought under control after jwo hours' time, that several thousand head of cattle had been destroyed, feome' estimates ran as high as 10,000. . There were 47.000 cattle In the yards J .' at the close of business yesterday, it t was said, and while it was possible to ; liberate most of them, so rapidly did M the flames gain headway that many I were caught and burned. 1 Hundreds of cattle freed from the ft burning structures reached the down- 1 town sections of both Kansas City, 1 Mo and Kansas City, Kan. I J Third Disastrous Stock Yards Fire. Bpf It was the third disastrous fire in i the history of the Kansas City stock m yards. The blaze was discovered by J) ' two patrolmen in Kansas City, Kan., R land before they could summon ap paratus the fire had become unmanageable. unman-ageable. The origin of the fire has not been determined so far. The other two were caused by carelessly thrown clgaxetto stumps. No estimate of the pecuniary loss has been made. Cattle Owners Face Difficulties. Cattle owners this morning were having difficulty in identifying their animals from among the great herd, which was liberated when fire early today destroyed more than one-half of the Kansas City stock yards. By 7 o'clock the fire had been extngulshed. When tlie Tire started, it is estimated, esti-mated, the number of cattle in the pens was 47,000. Of this number various estimates of the number burned ranged from 5,000 to 15,000. At the discovery of the fire, thousands thou-sands of cattle were liberated from the pens and the streets were glutted with panic-stricken herds. Today those animals, many of which had wandered some distance from the scene of the fire, were being coralled by their owners. Many new shipments of cattle were in the yards today ready to be unloaded. unload-ed. Cattlemen were undecided as to what disposal to make of the cattle, but it was supposed that they would be shipped on to either East St, Louis or Chicago. Omaha and St. Joseph also might benefit by these shipments. Very few swine were burned by the flames. oo |