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On the morning of February 14th, 1929, word of the massacre at the garage on Clark Street began to spread throughout Chicago.

Police detectives soon arrived on the scene, and passersby gathered on the street, eager to find out what was going on.

A delivery driver for the Chicago Daily News noticed the commotion while he was dropping off papers in a nearby store.

He gleaned that there was a shooting, and judging by the police presence, a bad one.

So he borrowed the shop owner's phone and called the newsroom.

The city editor quickly dispatched a photographer to the scene.

And soon, photographers and reporters from the four daily newspapers that serve Chicago all arrived and began documenting the entire gruesome array.

One photographer set his camera up at the very back of the garage in order to get the whole space in his shot.

Two other photographers set up a tripod on top of a parked car in order to get the highest possible angle.

Meanwhile, reporters pestered the police for information, but they had nothing to give them.

Officers fanned out to nearby buildings to interview anyone who might have been a witness.

Sergeant Thomas Loftus, one of the first officers on the scene, eventually left to go to the hospital where the lone survivor Fred Gusenberg had been transported.

When he arrived, he learned that Gusenberg was still alive, but barely.

Another officer had questioned him, but he'd again refused to identify the assailant.

And when asked who had shot him, he responded that nobody had.