# Isaac L. Milliken # Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Saturday 2 Dec. 1871 (day 9), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-12-03, page 4 # Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (lccn sn82014064): https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014064/1871-12-03/ed-1/?sp=4 ; OCR text https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_clark_ver03/data/sn82014064/no_reel/1871120301/0004.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1 # Page-OCR lines 929-934; uncorrected OCR; written 2026-09-14T06:28:05Z. # STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. ISAAC L. MILLIKEN, cx-Polico Justice, said tho depot of the Rock Is land Railroad was full of passenger cars, which might all have been saved if there had been any railroad men there. There were no switch en gines there at all, nor railroad employes.