Show CHEAT binns or HISTORY I 1 in anpo AV PO DOV AND AD CHICAGO alid C lies te r las laa an all able ubald article on this tin s luL jett in tile llie din s tian Adro cale tile burning of if rayne home and moscow ore are instanced but tile the gr great e at fire ol of london is id the prine principal iclal one in the ille compa il him hi m with that of chicago the Prore sas aa unparalleled in ill tile the won rapidity of arr growth grafft li c ago its in ashes derives a crumb or of c consolation n aher from llie lie reflection that the magnitude 4 or of her calamity is also alio without a parallel part lil in th the records of human airen mant fire il all llie woisil never before was aa ita area no an large an anil a 0 no O densely built swept by ife fire in so short 1 s a time A we c a arc re prone to lo cam i re the fire of chicago to that or of I 1 london on 0 I 1 oil in as aa tile llie lal lat ter has I 1 been bcd the I 1 L ae most ha dis batroni conil ion in history of a dig aal yal purely I 1 accidental ce i f a ni agin it was vat sabbath VU at 11 icorn morning ing sept 2 when mr BIT secretary ipas whose gr graphic I 1 pages paged give us the best picture of if the scene was waa awakened by his hill servant tenant at three thrpo to look at a firo fire in the lie city apprehending no dae linger gel after a lasly hasty glance lie retired to LIB his bed agn but at al nine the fire began to 0 o serious proportion a it hall hail broken out at 06 ten or of saturday night in a balers shop on pudding lane a crowded alley leading down to thames street near the head of if i bridge that section of tit alie e city was packed with dilapidated pi w wooden houses ribose quaint upper stories projected project ea so BO far ont on either tide side of tile narrow lanes on which they blood alood as an to shut out gilt altoft comple completely icly all light front cam above it was the quarter in which ill the e plague p I 1 agu a bad biad committed its fearful ravages ravages the year lievore the rhe preceding sur summer niner lad had been the dayett in tile aho memory or of men the shop ina a which tho the ere cre originated was waa filled with brush wood which burned like tinder and like all the hou ca in the trinity ty was pitched on the outside the blames caught an old inn nn near by which was packed with 1 hay and io in an instant were beyond control an easterly wind rising droye drove them quickly into the city at 10 0 clock on sunday morning they had burned down all fish street and were attacking tho bridge hurried liuro bcd to whitehall and obtained orders ordera from lie he king for pulling im don do hous esaA rapidly hut but the lord mayor whom lie he met inel in ri lombard street declai decla icil cd it of no all and 4 ge tip in de despair pair lord 11 said lie what can I 1 do I 1 have hae been pulling down flor florins florans ins but tile the fire overtakes its faster titan than wo we ean an do it the people seemed distracted with fear and no means were need ned to quench the lie filinies fl inies indeed as to ward evening abe wind increased inc reared to a gale le there seemed no likelihood of I 1 eseck checking ing then them sunday eire supping tupp ingal it an it alet in across the thames saw tile tho most horrid orrid li wall cious cioci and bloody flame spring springing in IH in a lurid larid arch straight up ilia lie hill hil f from rom the ri riter ter for nearly a mile all day clay mond monday f there was wa no diaries charles for once once was thoroughly to terrified and left tile tide side or of lidy caa r tremaine tle maine to tale take measures for his own safet safety r and nd that thai or of ilia hit people uis hit brother ho be duke of ork was inthe n saddle all day sunday anil and monlay monday directing th alie e feeble made I 1 tile at for far checking becking birts in those dayl were crude enough enouen the only kind of en engine mine in use unc b being eing a 1 cumbrous and worthom contrivance much ro embling fl a big syringe tile the popular tenor was augmented by reports that the fire was wag the work of neen diarl anil and that in an attack irom front the I 1 re feneli n uh was wag to bo be hourly lioi irly expected tuesday morning found a torrent rf flathe milling down cheapside arl beg to leap leapt leip jip the bides al ifft SL I 1 t aln lly ily noon it was wi wrapped rapped in flames flamed ita bhones 11 flying like 1 I he heart or of tile llie city cily war wan rit rim n pill out awl and tile the ly wind jit yn ai ab irvel cvar ili 11 the iho very teotil or of ot ili kile ka tile llie file was lucking linking down donn wat WA t ill alir tower and threat tl ireat ening the virl vast ordnance urd nance stores it contained 1 almighty gulf id alone ran can stop it lur fir vain in ilia lii help kielp ol of nin inan wrote evelyn the conflagration reA reached clied its ill culmination zou ion tuesday night the whole bly was a domo dome of nani which chiew a brilliant glare for forty miles around over the downs of surrey and fields or nf kent whilo while volumes of smoke rolled off on int into berkshire sixty silly miles away next morning fleet feet street and white 1 criari biart w abbes quite nii ditc itc down to like tem 1 em pie anil and to lo north all was burned banel to cripple gate gale christ church guild liall hall the ro koal 3 a I 1 li lachange change all were down hat but during the the wind hid had blackened and by dint ot vigorous effort the ali work of dl on was waa stopped sto pled ou go wednesday parts orthe or the burnt 1 act delfor foia foi afoa a roll might ni bt nearly all aig ahr older wild and more thickly allol cl lly p or lioni f or landon Ln olon six nf in whole territory WM was in rain tha arc Lurn ofa 1 ii liap like i a half bair moon lying along tha ilia thames front from ilia hie tower to the tempie a or of abolt a mile and a north rat but ever a li ill enile nt at j ls wi joel point tind nd cut cm four hundred and shirly six acres 1 ninety N I 1 ali t t two wo churches and thir teen th thousand a u an two aundre I bettges were the jhc whole CAI eflina ima ted ltd los las of to seven hundred and thirty thousand five hundred coundi mt erling m only til six lives W P 0 st evelyn 9 plays aj that tho the day after the lie fire fir two fad hundred thousand hiilei were WN straying about the ilic reduced to lo th alm utmost ex el tre mitie slid and yet lie adda ant asking aling ono ona penny fui fai relief Ail chich liell to me appeared d a qt stranger ranger si high titan any I 1 had bc i 0 o it 1 I iq ii a ofir fat act ly by bolfa that not a i tingle single london arm firm J d an aal d tile lie merchants mer chanti made tin no suspension pension flin of their foreign corres pon dence so much for the irae old english pluck ilnick and prudence a heritage we have hate reason to lo he proud of terrible ai a this thia disaster was a glance sufficed 9 to islina that it il was eliut a compared with that hint of chicago our fire swo pt tin larl times timer a j ar arg or at aol aal ad not liki 11 the Il section nf Lori loridon dnn cover I 1 with ink inferable erable crow crowlie lid together loc ther in narrow lanes lanea and reeling reeking sith filth lul but traversed rather fly noble euon sonio onto or of the proudest palaces of moil mail rn trade and industry the fearful speed faced an and fierceness or of the llie chicago fire crp liaro have never been equaled tile the fire of pome wai nine daye daya in loing its ils worl work that clial of moscow and that thai of london Ijo nilon each about four ilahi cayll if alip chicago aion a much greater area titan than either ran its course in the almost eliy sibby short space if f twenty hours and I 1 hat in ill spite of all our nur modern appliances applit a to prevent t it the lots hips of properly aces cp n account er y in hreve dicag ili I 1 ailing ng into account like ilia in in alj ilni value of money will lo be almost a third greater than that at london P and saddest of all tho the fearful rapidity of nf the gro fire caused a lose losa of life twenty times as groat great |