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Show 'CHICAGO MURIS.' LOSS OF ViCTINS OF REGENT FIRE ! ..HICAC.O. D.:c. 2V C'.rbimas was ?. day uf luo.irninK for i ffklal Chicago. Chica-go. The disaster ct the stackyards Thursday when a lire in the Morris & company l"'ff house swept awjy lb" lives of Fire Chiff Hor:-i nn'l 24 other mcn, covered the whole city with a , pall of sadnes. In Him churches Christmas rcrvices were Joined with prayers of sorrow for ihe dead an.l sympathy for their grlef-rukken fa nllics. F.om the staffs of public buildings, department stores ami many residences flcgi hung at half mast. Eight of the dead firemen were burled today. The funeral cervices were seml-publlc. being attended by all members ot the fire department who could be k pared from duty, lv city official of-ficial and by hundreds of citizens. The funeral of James 11. Horan, fire marshal, will take place tomorrow at the tame time as the burial of twelve other members cf the department. depart-ment. CapU.ln Dennis N. Doyle of Engine company D9. and his son Nicholas Nich-olas Doyle, of Truck company Nr. 11. will ho hurli d side by side, their bodies bod-ies having been taken from the wreckage wreck-age only an nrm's length apart. Edward Morris, head of the packing company, whose bnildlng was destroyed destroy-ed in the fire in which the nun gaye their lives tonight aunouncfd a gift of $2o.0u0 to the citizens relief fund for the ail of the firemen's widows and orphans. |