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Show RELATIVES OFTHEDEAD. Will Be Cared For By the City and People of Chicago Chicago, Doc, 23 I.ong before the streams of water had ceased playing on the smouldering pyre at the stockyards, stock-yards, Chicago business men and the city authorities sent out an appeal for relief for the widows anil orphans of the firemen who met death In tho ! disaster I The goal of" $."i0.(hi0 was set, and it was predicted that this would be overstepped, over-stepped, liedces of more'thau $."0,-ihio $."0,-ihio were made last night by business interests in the downtown districts, nnd an appeal to the public to assist in swelling the fund will-be made by a business men's committee today. 1'acking concerns in the stockyards district last night made known their Intention of subscribing $lo,00 each to the fund. Corporation Counsel E. J Drundage explained that the Bremen's pension fuud provides that the widow shall receive re-ceive ?o'3 a month as long as she remains re-mains unmarried, that each child shall receive $S a month up to the age of 1C years, and that a dependent father or mother shall receive ?23 a month, the bcnellciarles, however, not to receive re-ceive a monthly aggregate of more than one-half of tho salary 'of the deceased. |