Never in 6,000 years of history had so terrifying a combat been forced upon a people. Great factories had been crushed under the weight of pterodactyli parks had been ruined railways had been torn up the Chicago river was choked with the debris of torn and twisted bridges and the battered hulks of big lake steamers, lumber schooners, grain barges, dredges, and tugs, all destroyed by monster ichthyosauria which swarmed in the waters of Lake Michigan. Huge skyscrapers had been crushed by the mighty blows from monster dinosauria, the towering hulks of which reached to tenth stories. The combat had cost thousands of lives and left the city practically in ruins. City devastated and left in ruinsĬhicago was again at peace after five weeks’ combat with the destruction of mankind. The dynamite corps, organized by the committee of public safety, had been disbanded. The torpedo boat destroyers and submarine boats sent by the government to destroy the monster ichthyosauria, which swarmed in Lake Michigan, had returned, through the lakes and the Welland canal, to the Atlantic seaboard. The soldiers and the artillery, brought from far away army posts to do battle with the antediluvian monsters that had swarmed down upon the city from the north, had departed. The people of Chicago crept out into the sunshine from the cellars in which they had been living for weeks and gazed, amazed and helpless, at the debris of demolished skyscrapers and factories, and wandered aimlessly through ruined, disheveled parks and boulevards. Parks turned into deserts, great skyscrapers leveled by blows from the tails of the monsters, and entire population threatened in the panic and pestilence that follow the invasion. Hordes of gigantic beasts swarm down from the north and overwhelm the city, leaving it a mass of wreckage, tangled iron, piles of brick and stone. Never fear - dinosaurs did not destroy our fair city.) (Spoiler alert: This is a classic April Fool’s prank played on Chicago Tribune readers. This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Ap.
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