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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. UTAH FLOOIS SWEEP MIDDLE WEST RAINS CAUSE IMMENSE PROP ERTY LOSS; THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS More People Dyeing! Thousands Legionnaires Active, Using Boats foi Rescue; Vandalism Prevented; More Than Twelve Inches of Rain Reported of women give old gap-ment- s latest colors, and make drapea and furnishings all bright and beautiful thanks to home dyeing. So can you! Its fun, and how it saves WraWsjl ' Kansas City, Mo. Immense property damage was threatened by floods which were bursting Sunday from money L more than a score of rivers and creeks Deep-dyerich colors . or daintiest In southeastern Kansas and northtints. So easy, if you Just use real eastern Oklahoma, but little danger of dye. Diamond dyes do a perfect Job life was seen, as the residents of the on any fabric ovwtiftier colors. right stricken areas had received ample Dye anything; easy as washing! warning. FREE: now at any drugstore: DiaTwo lives had been claimed by the mond Dye Cyclopedia, full of suggeswaters in Oklahoma and thousands of tions, with simple directions, actual acres in the rich bottom lands of both piece-good- s color samples, etc. Or states had been destroyed. The write for big, illustrated book Color streams, fed by sluicing downpours on Craft free DIAMOND DYES, Dept. most of the watersheds of the dis- Nil, Burlington, Vermont Bp tricts, were the outskirts lages in the were already iiAsamc 4 tztrtJFZJZ zuZarboiw t) srn&r SCOTT WATSON years ago tills month u disaster which takes events in FIFTY-FIV- ns one of the lending history. For October 9 is anniversary of the great Chicago fire, and although this country E has known many catastrophes since 1871, It holds a unique place In the minds of most Americans. Just why this should be Is not easy to determine. One reason may be because It was not only the first great catastrophe In our history to send its thrill of horror and sympathy for its victims utl over the nation, but It was the most overwhelming culumlty that hud ever visited any community. Perhaps the better reason Is that Its after-niut- h was what we like to think Is so typically American. Here was a city that by persistent energy, daring enterprise and plans had been built up to a high position with unlimited possibilities for the future. In one night all the effort of 41 years was swept uwny. A hundred thousand people were homeless 'and out of employment, 20, (KK buildings had been destroyed and property worth nearly two hundred millions of dollars had vanished. In the face of all this It would seem that human nature would give way to despair. But the hardy pioneer stock of Chicagos citizenry was not the kind that was easily daunted. For them there was no sitting down ntnong the desolation of tlielr city and giving themselves up to mourning over their shattered hopes. The moment the telegraph wires-ha- d been repaired, her bankers, with nothing but the future grentness of tlielr city to offer as security, were borrowing millions from eastern capitalists and her merchants were ordering new stocks of goods. The case of one merchant was typical. Before the smoldering ruins of his store had cooled, he put up a sign on the site which read: "All gone but wife, children and energy!" Out of her travail Chicago with her motto of "I will!" arose to begin building again and within three years there stood a new city beside the lake, new In brick and stone and new In spirit. Within twenty years congress had chosen Chicago as the site for the worlds fair to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America and the Worlds Columbian exposition of 1893 set a new mark In such celebrations. Fifty-fiv- e years later finds Chicago citizens planning an even greater exposition for 1931, one which will celebrate her centennial and will show to the world that In a hundred years she 1ms arisen to a position which challenges the achievements of any city, no matter how many hundreds of years of history It has behind' It. " To appreciate how great was the disaster that overtook this city on October 9, 1871, It is necessary to review her brief history before the blow fell. The first permanent Inhabitant on the site of Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point nu Sable, a West Indian negro, who built it rude cabin at the mouth of the Chicago river In 179tl. A Frenchman "Jumped" his claim and later sold It to John the father of KInale, who Is often called In 1803 the War department built a Chlctigo." fort on the banks of the river the first Fort. Pear&om whose history was to end so tragically In th. massacre of 1812. A second Fort Dearborn was lullt In 1816 and occupied for 80 yenrs. But even the protection It afforded failed to attract settlers and in 1827 Chicago could claim only three families. First platted and named In connection with the survey for a canal route In 1830. the town covered only some three-eight- s of a square mile and when It was Incorporated In 1837 Its population was only 4,100, although there had been a boom after the Black Ilawk war. The panic of 1S37 caused a period of stagnation and all that kept Chicago alive was the canal project and the indomitable grit of men who foresaw a great future for the city. A steady k growth began after 1842, with a temporary by the panic of 1857, and continued through Cm Civil war. By this time the entrance of rail By ELMO g set-?'ttc- tt&ZVjr homeless. The region afflicted, a broad, fanshaped watershed draining into the Arkansas and Canadian rivers, has been drenched all week with torren-- ' tial rains which in some localities toAt taled more than twelve Inches. several towns as much as eight and nine inches fell' at one time. The first crest of the floods caused by these rains seems now to be passing through northwestern Oklahoma, but continued rains in Kansas have kept the streams in the northern part of and the fresh the watershed bank-full- , torrents that have fallen in the last twenty-fou- r hours are now backing up "from the earlier freshets and approaching in some sections the high water marks set in the disastrous flood of 1923. The cities in the regie are just recovering from a flooa in the same streams three weeks ago that did millions of dollars damage to property and crops. xfiWSfcSrfSfli OFFICE FUFTS roads, the development of manufactures and Its strategic location as a trading center lmd caused Chicago to forge ahead until it was becoming truly u wonder city. By 1S71 It had a popula- tion of 350, 000 from 4,000 to 350,000 in 34 years! In its appearance the Chicago of 1871 was said tb Have resembled somewhat the great city of Paris. Mansard roofs, Imported from Parisian architecture, were much in evidence, as was also the building stone which had the appearance of the famous Paris marble. It had many beautiful homes and gardens and an elaborate park system, so that It was often referred to as the "Carden City. Into the midst of all this peace and prosperity came the fire dragon one Sunday evening. As churchgoers were returning to tlielr homes, they were startled to hear the alarm of fire from the courthouse bell. It was the second alarm that had been sounded within 24 hours, for the night before the city firemen had battled a stubborn blaze nil night long before they had succeeded In subduing It. Cackling geese once saved Rome and a kicking cow destroyed Chicago. The fire of October 8 originated In the barn of Mrs. Patrick OLeary, an Irishwoman living at 137 De Koven street, who kept a cow and sold milk to her neighbors. Tradition has always had it that Mrs. O'Leary was milking her cow that fateful night, but recent researches Into the history of the event shows that it wus one of the neighbors, and not Mrs. OLeary, who was milking the cow at the unseemly hour of 9.30 p. nx Perhaps If Mrs. OLeary had been doi.ng It, the history of Chicago would have been different. However that may be, the fact remains that the cow kicked over the lantern, the barn was Ignited and the great Chicago fire had begun. It made strong headway despite the efforts of the firemen, wearied to exhaustion by their experience of the night before, and was soon out of all control. The flames swept east toward thd river and there It paused, as though selecting Its point of attack. On the east side of the river, between Adams and Monroe streets, stood the South Side Gas works. A blazing plank was blown across the river and lighted on these buildings. A moment later there was a territlic explosion and the South side was In darkness, save for the glare of the flames. Blown by a territlic gale the fire had enjoyed a devastating sweep of four miles through a line of wooden buildings which were dry ns the proverbial tinder, for there had been no rain for weeks. The fire department, driven back steadily by the onrushing flames, had hoped that the harrier of the river would cheek the flames. But when the fire reached this barrier about midnight and leaped across, they all but abandoned hope. Buildings of stone, brick and Iron in what is now the loop district, which were supposed to be fireproof, crumbled and melted before the terrific heat. Apparently aiming at the courthouse, the fire now selected as its avenue of approach I.u Salle street, the financial center of the city, and steadily ate its way along Madison and Monroe streets. Only one structure, the Nixon building, proved to be really fireproof. As for the others, the limestone and even harder stone melted before the terrific heat and run down like lava from a volcano. The cupola of the courthouse was framework and hurst in flames long before the remainder of the structure succumbed. lying after two oclock In the morning, when the framework burned, the bell, operated by a mechanical device, continued to toll Its warning to the citizens, but It was sounding the knell of a doomed city. On the North slds stood the Chicago water works containing the powerful engines which pumped the lake water for distribution through the city. While the courthouse was burning a brard from it went hurtling through the air and lighted upon a wooden outbuilding of a brewery. light-colore- d creeping into home on of the towns and vildistrict, and thousands Illustrations From Chicago Historical Society. From this the fire spread to the tower of the waterworks and soon the entire mechanism was disabled and the water supply out off. With it went the last hope for checking the flames if Indeed there still was any hope. As the fire swept on toward the lake Gen. minutes' Guilt Speech Stirs France Paris French governmental circles are stirred over the speech of the German foreign minister, Dr. Stresemann, at Cologne Saturday, in which. he rewar guilt ferred to the recent speeches of Premier Poincaire,- characterizing them as jarring notes in the midst of the Thoiry conversations, and saying that Germany was ready to submit to any impartial tribunal charged with investigating the origins of the World War. A semiofficial note issued states that M. Polncaires St. Germain and speeches last Sunday and Monday, respectively, were an expression of the opinion of the entire French government. - Phil Sheridan, eonnmding officer of the department of the lakes, whose headquarters were in Chicago and who had taken charge of the situation, tried to check the spread of the fire by blowing up buildings along Wabash and Michigan avenues. A few stmictures were saved in ' this manner, but against tiie gale that was blowing, but little could be accomplished. So from early In the evening of October S until late at night on October 8 the conflagration raged, a vast ocean Mighty Crowd at Sssque Mass of flame, sweeping over the city in mile-lonPhiladelphia More than a quarter billows and breakers. of a million Catholics participated in Before it fled a horde of humanity in a fren- a solemn pontifical mass of thankszied search for safety along the lake front. But giving for 150 years of American indethe refugees soon found that standing in the pendence at the sequicentennial stadwater was unsafeTmd to escape Tty" a ium Sunday. Preceding the mass, mad rush to the south. The horrors of the scene, which was celebrated by Cardinal as well as some of the ludicrous phases of it, are Daugherty, aproximately 50,000 Cathdescribed by an eyewitness as follows: olic men marched down Broad street from the center of the city to the stadThe scene was indescribable. The great, dazzling ium. The great hosts filled to over light, the flash and roar of the conflagration, and the desperate flight of the crowd. . . . They flowing the huge stadium. stood transfixed, with a mingled feeling of horror and admiration, and while they often exclaimed at Troops Capture Mexican Bandit the beauty of the scene, they all devoutly prayed Mexico City The authorities anthat they might never see such another. To the roar which the simple process of com- - nounce that federal troops have capb&Mion always makes, magnified here to so grand tured and willed the leader of .the an extent, was added the crash of failing buildings and the constant explosion of stores of oil. The bandits who on Sunday last attacked noise of the crowd was nothing compared to this a Mexico City automobile party on the chaos of sound, . . . highway midway between Mexico City I saw men. women and children. In every variety and Pachuca. The authorities believe of dress, with a motley collection of effects which they sought to save. Some had stiver, gome val- that with federal troops patrolling the uable papers, some pictures, carpets, beds, etc. highways in the Mexico City region One little child had her doll tenderly pressed In and the prompt execution of the banher arms. An oM Irish woman was cherishing a who murdered Jacob Rosenthal of dits grunting pig. There was a singular mixture of the Woodmere, Long Island, N. Y and awful, the ludicrous and the pathetic. A torrent of humanity was pouring over the the leader of last Sundays gang, travel bridge . . . drays, express wagons, trucks, and now will be safe in the country surconveyances of every conceivable species and size crowded across In indiscriminate haste. Collisions rounding the capital. happened almost every moment. The same long line of men dragging trunks was here, many of Railway Head Asks Warship them tugging over the ground with loads which San Diego, Cal. Request that the a horse would strain at. Women were there staggering under weights upon their backs. Now and United States navy headquarters ou then a strav schooner came up and the bridge the Pacific Coast be asked to send a must be opened. Then arose a howl of indignation vessel to Quaymas, on the west coast along the line audible above tha tumult. of Mexico, to discover what damage By Monday determined effort already were had been done to that city by hurri- being made to bring order out of chaos. Two cant, was made by H. B. Titcomb, pres- thousand extra police were sworn in to stop the ldent of the Southern Pacific railway plundering, state troops were enlled out and lines in Mexico, in a message from his Sheridans regulars took charge. Belief bureaus headquarters at Tucson to San .Diego were organized by the city officials. Immediately and Arizona railway headquarters other cities came to the rescue of their stricken here. sister. Cnrlonds of food nnd clothing were sent by St. Louis .and Cincinnati, Chicago's trade Severe Earthquake Shock is Recorded rivals. To counterbalance the scenes of horror Washington An earthquake which nnd baser human passions which had swept the continued more than four hours and city during the fire was the wave of sympathy had its center about 4500 miles southnnd help which came from nil parts of the west of Washington was recorded Sunerrantry. It was In the form of money and pro- day on the seismographs at Georgetown university. The disturbance bevisions and offers of all kinds to help. For several weeks the problem of living among gan at 2:57 and was described by Dithe ruins was a real one for even people of rector Tondorf of the observatory severe. wealth. The thousands of homeless people found shelter In hastily constructed shanties and lean-to- s and did their cooking in the open. Gradually, Russians Drop Old Glory and Hoist Red Tokio A dispatch to the newspaper however, conditions were bettered nnd Chicago .merged from the devastation and began the task Nichi Nichi from Kakodate, Japan, The debris from the fire was says the Russion Fleet Asociation's of rebuilding. dumped into the lagoon that formerly separated ship, Stavropol, has arrived from the tracks of the Illinois Central railroad from Wrangel island, where is removed the the lake front, filling it up and paving the way American and British flags and raised for later Improvements. Within a year the new the red banner. Fifty Russian emifrom the flames grants were placed on the islnid after Chicago had sprung, phenlx-like- , and exactly two yenrs later the great glass-dome- a thorough exploration by airplane. It building of the Interstate Industrial ex- was found that vegetation was scarce position, erected where the AH institute now but there were a number of stands, marked the rehabilitation of a great ing animals, including bear and fey city after one of the greatest disasters In history. The area Is 2921 square miles. She Added a Lot Palmer Women live ten years longer now, since theyve started wearing sensib.le short skirts. Andrews IPm, tny wife will probably live till shes a hundred and eighty. c To see what is right and not to do It is want of courage, or of principle. Confucius. g Sure Relief they-soa-gl- it 6 Bell-an- s Hot Bell-an-s water sureKeiiet FOR INDIGESTION 5$ and 75$ PMs.Sold Everywhere Clear ThePores Of Impurities With CuticuraSoap Soup, Ointment, Talcum told everywhere. 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