1 Jf JI f 3 t I I of 7 p. p I 1 I 1 r r J 4 r rY ti r t r Y i r 4 J Jv ti v 1 r 1 v r 4 tl the HID Awful combat between gigantic gigantic gigantic gi gi- gi- gi gantic dinosaur and huge ty- ty on Grant park results in the destruction oftie of ofle tie le immense buildings along Michigan avenue National government sends warships and az d troops to battle baffle with the Invading hordes bordes of supposedly supposed- supposed ly ori c beasts on the thew w la lake e and in the s streets of the city Terrifying scenes in the stockyards when cattle callie sheep and hogs are eaten b by y pterodactyl Q li Art institute destroyed destroyed de de- de- de and people drive nto refuge in cellars II HE 1117 last st dinosaur had been slain The TheT r people of ot Chicago o crept out into the T sunshine from the cellars in which th th- y v had been living for weeks and I g J. J J amazed and helpless at the tho iJ debris o of lf s nm demolished fil skyscrapers and factories F and wandered aimlessly through ruined disheveled parks and boulevards The soldiers anti and the tho artillery brought from faraway far tar awa away arm army po posts ts to do battle with tho the antediluvian monsters that had swarmed down upon the city ctt from the north had departed Tho The torpedo boat destro destroyers fg and submarine boats sent by the government to de do destroy destroy stroy the monster ichthyosaurus which swarmed li Ii In Lake Michigan had returned through the lakes Jakes and rho ho Welland canal to tho the Atlantic seaboard The Tho b the committee of ot public by dynamite corps organized J safety had been disbanded J I City Devastated and Left in Ruins Chicago was again at peace after five weeks weeks' combat combat com- com bat with tho the most terrifying enemy that ever e threat threat- threatened bat ened the destruction of ot mankind The Tho combat had hadj j cost thousands of or lives and left len the city practically in ruins Huge skyscrapers had been crushed b by mighty blows from monster monster tho the towering hulks of or which reached to tenth stories Great Gleat factories had been crushed under the weight ht of ot pterodactyl parks had been ruined railways had been torn up the thc Chicago river was choked with the dt d dt of or torn I 1 j I and twisted bridges and tho the battered hulks of ot big In lake e steamers lumber schooners grain barges dredges and tugs tUbS all rul destroyed by monster I I which swarmed in the waters of Lake Lako Michigan Never ever in years of history had so terrifying a combat been tore forced ell upon a people 1 I Chicago Jests at Awful Warnings Tho first warnings of ot the approach of ot tho the hordes of ot antediluvian monsters were treated with levity by press and public A Chicago newspaper ono one morning in May Mar printed tho the following following- dispatch DULUTH Minn May 1 l. Capt Scott of ot the whale- whale back bacle No 13 of ot the Rockefeller ore carrying fleet ro- ro re reports reports ports that sixty miles from rota Duluth he hc sighted a a. sea Sell serpent Tho The m monster had a huge alligator shaped head eight feet long with eyes ces as bl big as the head of or ofa ofa ora a barrel Only Onh thirteen feet of its neck could be seen above the thc surface of the tho water The first mate and tho engineer saw the tho sea serpent and md vouch for the tho thoi uX CL p tI L I i Startling Dispatch from Tho The newspaper printed the dispatch with facetious facetious face face- headlines and andr the funny editors wrote Jeering JeerIng- paragraphs asking Capt Caple Scott what particular brand brantl of grog h he served on board his ship A few fow ow days later another Chicago jo newspaper printed the following 1 WINNIPEG May la 1 4 A A dispatch from Sifton Sitton in Manitoba province brings an extraordinary extraordinary story told thero thera by of or the tho Canadian northwest mounted t d police who has Just returned returned re- re turned from Red Deer Point in Lake Winnipegosis fers reports that two weeks ago o he ire saw flying In the tho air a huge bird whoso whose wings stretched fully tullY eighty eight feet teet from tip to tip Its head with bill Two was was fully full live five feet long a days later Chivers and his hla escort distinctly saw six of ot these monsters flying in the air r. a Trappers up anti and down Lake are coming into Sitton Sifton by tho the score fearing tearing destruction front from tho the huge bat- bat lIke birds Great ox excitement prevails alls e here fc Terror error and Panic in Canada There were more moro facetious paragraphs in tho the J newspapers newspaper and in a day or so tho the public forgot all aU alli i about the birds seen flying over Lake L. Winnipegosis Winni- Winni Then came a more moro disquieting dispatch from far nr Northern Ontario province on the Canadian Pacific Pa Pa- to the tile following effect May Mar C. C John G.-John John Anderson a 0 prominent prominent prominent nent and ind prosperous farmer tarm r living lI south of Lako Lake Walt Wah arrived hero here with his family and nOlI a few ew household household household house house- hold goods in a wagon Anderson Oed fled from rom his farm tarm last Tuesday in terror after seeing a huge huge- monster r feet long prowling around his cattle yard The beast hail halt a head and neck like a n snake Its body eighteen feet teel thick was covered with scales Its forelegs tore fort legs were shorter than its hind legs and it had IlC a tal tali forty feet teel long sted with scales Tho The monster demolished de do Andersons Anderson's barn with one sweep of ot itt iti J J q i w. w it i 1 I. I t t. t ST Y N. 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V r- r v 4 I V K i 2 TERRORIZED BATHERS FLEEING FROM DIVERSEY BEACH tall tali t l Anderson gathered a few rew ow goods and his family Into a wagon and drove his hla frightened horses horseson on a run into town Hundreds reds of or farmers arc are coming coming- Into In terror They The report that thal tho the huge beasts are arc roaming tho the tore forests ts by scores The excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment is intense The Tho population of ot the tho whole country countr Is fleeing southward Startling Reports cAbout The Tho story from Crom seemed so 50 extraordinary extraordinary nary that the general manager mana er of the Canadian Pacific made Inquiries The Tho response was startling From every overy station elation agent along the line in Northern Ontario province came tho news that strange huge hugo monsters were ravaging the whole country countr north of or tho rail rail- road Agents at Turnbull Eureka Lake Larchwood Sudbury Warren and Verner sent the same reports and in two days tho the Canadian Pacific trains were filled with refugees fleeing from tho terror terror terror ter ter- that ha had come down from Crom the woods of ot tho the north In such hideous ous shape The newspapers could no longer Jeer at the tho strange news coming comins from far northern parts One newspaper sent reliable reporters to Winnipeg g and to get special page stories from the terror terror terror ter ter- stricken trappers and farmers Another r man was sent to Duluth to get g-et the stories told by lI lake lako men who arrive In that port every day to t tell of or seeing sea serpents and other strange strang-c amphibian beasts swimming In Lake Lako Michigan These stories were Jn page articles In the Chicago newspapers and Illustrated with lIth pictures of ot tho the strange huge beasts drawn from Crom excited descriptions 0 0 0 Explained by hy the Professor Prof Proto of tho the University of Chicago stu studied studied stud stud- led the tho descriptions carefully The sea serpent seen by b Capt Scott in Lake Superior he said was nothing more mora nor l less s. s t than an tho Ichthyosaurus a us of ot Antediluvian antediluvian ted lan lanb ay b s 's u ii u VA nl were were strangely el like tho the pterodactyl while the monsters ravaging rayas-lnE the forests of Northern Ontario were the tho Prof Proto in a signed article discussed learnedly the tho peculiarities of or these monsters of prehistoric ages and nud that the they had been extinct for years Ills His opinion was verified by Prof Proto of or the University of or MichIgan Michigan Michigan Mich Mich- igan and by Prof of or tho the University of or Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania je sc Newspapers ers Become Less Flippant The Chicago n newspapers ho no o longer discussed tho the stories from the th north flippantly The Tho rs which tho the Canadian tarm rs were seeing seeing- seemed preposterous ous impossible impossible but but the terror of ot the tho people was gen gen- There was no gainsaying that fact All over southern Canada tho the people were fleeing by tens ens of or thousands Tho The railroad abandoned its freight traffic It made no attempt to sell tickets or to collect fares tares Every Ever locomotive every passenger er freight stock and flat fiat car tho the company could find was impressed Into service in order to carry away tho the terror stricken tion The panic however did not reach rench t Chicago The Tho dally printed pages of tho the strange news from the tho north to the exclusion of or all an other news and every lino line was eagerly read but business went on as ns usual The board of trade and tho the stock exchange held their dally daily sessions State street was as full of or shoppers as ns over Big Dig factories wore working as usual No on end thought of ot his own danger while whilo reading of ot the awesome Events vents transpiring in the far north a Sea Serpent Sa Saw w Tug Tag First Then suddenly came camo tho the awakening A tu tug charI chartered char char- I toted by an enterprising newspaper had started for Lake Superior with a full corps of ot reporters artists and photographers in an endeavor to sight sig-ht the sea ilea ca I serpent and obtain accurate pictures and descriptions It IL happened however that tho the tug did not find the I sea pea serpent The sea serpent found the tug first Late te i y t f t.-t- t. Ii rY i t o l H rr i r r i J of Li l q r r t r 1 r r b 1 J Jr i r r r S ae 7 w. w t. t r 1 I r CURIOUS CROWDS WATCHING GIGANTIC BEASTS In the afternoon while artists and reporters were wore lounging loung-Ing Idly along the rail there came camo a n sudden boiling foaming Upheaval of the waters close to the bow of tho the boat A hugo huge hu e bulk buIlt appeared In the tho waters nl and nOlI a long snakelike neck raised a great head with staring eyes ces far above the tho side of or the tug The newspaper news paper men gave one affrighted yell yen as the tho monster swayed s Its tend head with its ferocious jaws from Croin side to side over tho the deck Then with a sweep of its powerful powerful pow pow- ow erful tall tail against the sido of ot the tug it disappeared beneath tho the surface of tho the water Tho The blow v Smashed the propeller and an steering gear and stove In lit the tho stets stet's planking letting In a o flood of water wales put out aut tho the fires Ores under tho the boilers and loft tho little vessel bl drifting helplessly and slowly sinking t t Escape Seemed Miraculous Fortunately a 0 Goo Goodrich line tine steamer was near at athan hand han and tho newspaper party was rescued before tho the tug sank to the tho bottom of or the lake Tho The steamer carried carried carried car car- ried the tho reporters reporter's and artists to w Mackinac Tho The next morning the papers contained a 0 vivid story and tho the people of Chicago awoke to alto tho ho realization of oC the tho Tact fact that at al least one of the tho monsters Was as in Lake Michi Michi- gan gart But Dut tho the story of ot the destruction of ot a tug in Lake Lako Michigan by a hugo huge and unheard of or monster did dill not create so much of a sensation in Chicago as its au authors authors authors au- au thors had anticipated for Cor Chicago had even greater grenter sens sensations of ot its own within its own observation On the same morning that the tho story of or the destruction of or the tug tug- was printed a telephone message from Racine Racine Ra Rn cine reported that half a dozen monster birds with wings nearl nearly feet across had been lIoen seen seen flying over ovel that town on their way southward The Thc news spread from mouth to mouth as us a prairie lire fife spreads across tho the western plains The monsters monsters monsters mon mon- are coming The monsters arc aro coming were excited cries heard he rd on every side 4 Peo People p eTt L coked i i Ji f or tt Tho The people poured Into the streets Tall TaU office omee buildings were deserted factories shut down stores closed Nobody wanted to work or to buy or to lo sell Everybody wanted to be In the open air aft to ditch datch the first glimpse of or the huge birds which had bad terrorized terrorized ter ter- tho the north and which were lazily winging their way toward Chicago The streets were so chol choked ed edWith with people that all aU traffic was suspended and tho the electric and cable cars ears were unable to force torce a way through tho crowds Never Nevel had hud Chicago witnessed so ao exciting a day Just before booro noon a n cry arose from Crom the tho hundreds of or persons who had haiJ been lucky enough h to secure places of or vantage on the tops of or tall taU buildings Far to the north hovering above Evanston could be bo seen seon a half a n dozen huge hugo birds swooping In broad circles over the thc town Tho The great reat birds came nearer and nearer Although their movements seemed cumbrous and slow y yet t they really were flying with almost Incredible speed As they came camo nearer to Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago their great grent wings beating the thc air ah were ero plainly discernible but even more mOle terrifying were the huge heads and terrible Jaws of or the tho strange creatures The Tho head bend was wan shaped like that of ot a n monster pelican Wings 40 t to o 60 Feel Feet Long The great Jaws were six or seven feet reet long and armed with wind formidable teeth Tho The body was shaped sh like that of uC a bird although as big an at that of a n horse l I rom From rom the tho body extending rort forty to sUet sixty feet on ott each ooch side wore broad membranous wings Tho The creatures creature's legs were ridiculously out of proportion to the rest of or Its body The Tho city was thrown Into a n state stale of ot indescribable panic panto b by the tho appearance of oC tho the strange o monsters flyIng flyIng flyIng fly- fly Ing In th the tho air Tho The tops of ot the high buildings wore quickly emptied of ot the throngs of persons who only an tilt hour before had been so eager to catch cd A n glimpse o of the creatures The Tho streets were cleared as us If by lIy magic and in an Incredibly short time were deserted Every ery man mon woman woman and child in the tho city had hurriedly sought for shelter sheller in cellars and und In III houses and big buildings Everywhere verY doors and windows were barricaded to Ward off oft a t possible at attack attack attack at- at tack from the great s winged mon monsters which wore were lazily circling over the city like birds of ot evil omen No one know l for certain whether these unheard of ot beasts of the tho air would attack human beings or not but no one took any chances 0 Soc Stockyards yards Scene of Terror Meantime a different kind of panic was waR In ss 3 s In the tho stockyards district where cattle 7 hogs hoss 2 sheep and from to horses were In tho the pens waiting slaughter or ship ship- ment The Tho cattle and horses had caught sight of the monster bird bird beasts beasts and frightened bellowing anti and and arose from the stockyards district which filled the ado whole city Nothing so ter- ter as the dull wild hopeless roar of or frightened animals vas was ever lI before fore heard In the city and IU its