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Topical Budget 138-1: Chicago's Tallest Chimney Falls (1914)
 

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" Wreckers shore up the base of the 265 foot chimney with wood and set fire to it, bringing down 5,000 tons of brick crashing to earth". Sign for wrecking contractors S. Krug over arch at base of chimney. Piles of wood are set alight; people leave the scene. Long shot of chimney as it crumbles in on itself; clouds of debris. Long shot of the site; spectators walking over the demolition site.