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Show LATEST FROM THE CHIC1G-0 CONFLAGRATION ! VIVID DESCRIPTION BY IX EYE-WITNESS. The Situation down to One o'clock this Morning, Belief Pouring in from all Quarters.; Chicugo, m. About ton o'clock un yundiiy night ti mull barn on Cuniil port avenue, not far from Twelfth 8t., West side, was discovered on fire; just such a little lire has happened Ihou.-utids of times before. The wind tit tho tiino . was blowing Rlronly from t!ie soutli- 1 south-east, and owinir to tho extreme dryness every tiling was combu&liblo. ' Tli is slow beginning raidly Bjireud and reached iidjoiiiinjr property. Tak- ; ing tho course ol the wind, tho lire bo- j frnn to inovo rapidly towards tho heart ! ol' tho city. lleaehiiiR the buildings ! below Twelfth street, tho rlamea r:i p- i idly devoured everything combustible in llio way, reaching 'anburcn street, which was seized and quickly became the prey to the llantes. The flro was curried , across the river at this point, and tho carnival of devastation unit utter wide spread ruin began on flic tJouth side of the city. Chicago, 10. The railroads cast and south aro sending no trains out this forenoon, fore-noon, as all tho cars in tho city over Sunday wero consumed. Thu in-coming trams aro all behind fimo, owing to the lires raging in tho woods and prairies, prair-ies, Tho evening trains will probably start on tinio. Tho mails at Lhu post ollieo being consumed, of course all the accumulation of mail matter for to-day bus been also consumed. Tho mail for the stock yards was taken from tho incoming in-coming trains for delivery tliore. The water and gas works are both destroyed; and probably for soino time tho only supply of water will bo from tho lake. All the bridges across llio Chicago river, from Van liurcn to llio hike, have buun burned, and the only means of getting from one division of the city Lo the other is by the tunnels, the entrances en-trances to which arebadly blocked. Tho newspaper ofliccs have all, or nearly all, been swept out of existence and their material destroyed. No papers have boon or could bo issued down to noon to-day; the Stock Yards Sun being the only ono which lias escaped tho conflagration. con-flagration. This morning a largo number num-ber of teams aro sent by ALossrs. Tucker and Sherman, to assist in the removal of such furniture as has been saved from the Sherman llouso. Aid was telegraphed for lo JVlilwaukeo at throe o'clock on Sunday morning, and a number ol lire engines wero at unco si-nt forward by express. The banks have all been destroyed, de-stroyed, excepting the Fiist National, and tho upper part of IhaL is gutted. Tho vaults, however, are inlacl. Tho hotels aro destroyed from Van liurcn street Lo tho river, and from the river to tho lake, which wero all destroyed, and the guests sought refuge in hotels in other parts of the-oily. The Union stock yards and the village of Ciis-sell Ciis-sell oil tho lino of the i'ort "Way no railroad, about Lli irty miles from Chicago, look lire last night from tho lire raging in the prairies, prai-ries, and wero entirely destroyed. Tho fire on tho south division was linully arrested about 1 p. in. This wis accomplished accom-plished by blowing up ami demolishing several buildings on 'Wabash avenue and Congress streets, by lieuL-goiioml Sheridan. Tho district burned over in the south division embraces everything from the main branch of tho Chicago river lo tho take, embracing about a hundred blocks. This district contained all tho leading houses, banks, insurance insur-ance i llices, hotels, and a large number of churches, including St. .Mary's Cathedral. St. Trinity, l'irat Presbyterian, Si!coml Presbyterian, St. Paul; Swedenborx.ian, ifcc. Tho .Methodist .Meth-odist church, on tho corner of Wabash avenue and Congress fired, is saved. Tho Michigan avenue hotel, on tho corner cor-ner of Michigan avenue and Congress street; nnd Congress ball directly adjoining, ad-joining, on Congress street, arc saved. Michigan terrace, on Michigan avenue, embracing the residences oA lieutenant governor Uross, honorable J. Young, S. C. (jroggs, and other leading citizens, aro completely burned with iho l'urni-turo l'urni-turo and nearly all other contents. All tho newspaper establishments are totally wiped out. Tho Tribune building resisted re-sisted for several hours but finally yielded, when McVickors theatre, immediately im-mediately adjoining, which had also withstood tho raging element, finally succumbed. In fact, all Lho;buildings in tho district which claimed to bo lire proof shared the fato of those which could muko no such claim. Tho great Central Cen-tral depot on Lake street became a heap of rttius about 'J o'clock. Most of the Sissenger cars of tho Michigan Central, urliugton and Quincy and Illinois Central railroads wero moved on the breakwater and saved. On West Clark street in the south division the lire extended ex-tended Eoulh as far as l'olk street, sweeping everything before it. Tho distance burned over here is some three blocks wido and over half a mile in length, numbering about twenty blocks. Tho buildings wero generally of the cheaper class, embracing saloons, small shops, poor residences, dzc. The district burned over on tho west side coinmencos at Taylor street, running run-ning from Dokovor to Jefferson. It ran thence four or llvo blocks north, and then moved diagonally towards the river, and finally tho west lino was established es-tablished on Clinton strcot, and reaching reach-ing fhenco to the river it moved in this nno noruiwaru umu it. rcacneu mc northwestern west sido depots, when it stopped, a distance of nearly two miles from where it Elartod. The P. F. W. and C. and St. Louis depots were in this territory; both passenger and freight aro wiped out almost entire Tho Northern North-ern division from the main branch of the Chicago river to Ijinoolu park, nearly two miles in length and ono milo wide, is completely destroyed, including the water works and a largo number of elegant churches &c. Chicago, l'J. Tho simple facts that tho great city of Chicago )s destroyed, that hundreds of millions of active : capital havo been ruined, and that hundreds of thousands of inhabitants aro homoless, aro enough. Tho mayor of St. Louis telegraphs that S70,UU0 had boon subscribed by tho merchants; Cincinnati promises S100,-! S100,-! 000 and Cleveland is proportionately genoroiu. All this und a great deal more will be needed lo relievo Uie immediate im-mediate preying wauls, About three quarters of tho li. S mulls wero safe and taken possession of by Col, Wood of tho post oilice sorvico. Tho district devastated enibra ccs almost llio entire businusd paction of the city south of Harrison street, in tho south division. Pur miles and miles in every direction, tho sidewalks, lawns, vacant lots, and front yards of dwellings dwell-ings aro tilled with people who have I escaped from lo I timing dwellings, taking with thorn only a scanty amount of their furniture and clothes. The sight is pitiful and harrowing. Tlioy must receive immediate relief or many will perish from exposure and starvation. starva-tion. Uf course it is utterly impossible to make an approximato estimate of tho entire lo;, but it can scarcely fall below j one hundred and fifty millions of dol-; dol-; lard, of which but a fraction of the I amount can bo ran lined in iho insurance. insur-ance. General Sheridan hiu to-day telegraphed to St. Louis, to the military department there, lo send at onco to Chicago 1X),000 rations; ho has also telegraphed lo Uuiuba for two compa-I compa-I nies of regulars and uno huudred tent:. I They will bo all here as soon as they can reach by rail, ilo will also order another hundred thousand rations, i Chicago. 1U, :;:.'.n p.m. Later word is i just brought that a fierce fire is raging on ! Thirty-lir'st sttv:l. This etrcet'is two J miles south of the sou' hern lire limit on the south, side. This lias been set on i fire for the purpose, evidently, of des-I des-I troy i rig the remaining part oi' the city, largely occupied by wealthy residents, i It is also known tliat two rnon, ennght in the act of firing llio buildings havo been shot, and two others led oil' with ! rones around their ne-k-. As the wind j is blowing a perfect iralc. the end nw ! j cannot ha fm'ei-iiil. I'liriioT i,ev,s wilt 1 I be forwarded a.-, souu us received. ! Vivid Description of Mic Terrible ! Chicago, hi The following e!..'pmit ' j and truthful dosenptiou of the lire has ; been furnished by a genileman wiio 1 participated in the Work throughout:! ''.None but an "ye witne? can form an ! idea of tho fury and power of the lire- fiend as ho revelled among tho palatini building and warehouses on the south side. Vith tho wind blowing a hurricane hurri-cane at times, it seemed but tho work of a moment for Iho liro to euler the foulh cuds of buildings fronting on liandolph, Lake and "Water streets, nnd reappear at the north doors and windows, belching belch-ing forth in fierce il nines which often lickoil the opposite buildings; and then the flumes belching from buildings on both sides of Lbo streets would unite and present a solid mni9 of fire, completely com-pletely filling tho slreeU from side to side, and shooting upward a hundred feet inlo tho air above the house lops in their mad career; and thus was street nfler street filled with flames and fire, and the exultation of the fire-fiend was given vent to in a roar which can only bo equalled by combining the noiso of the ocean when its waters aro driven during a tempest upon a rocky beach, wilh the howl of tho blast. Hugo walls would topplo and fall into the sea of tire without apparently giving a sound, as tho roar of the Uery element was eo great that all tho minor sounds wero swallowed up; and tli3 full of walls was only perceptible to tbo eyo and not to tbe ear. Jf our readers will recall re-call lo their minds thefiercestsnowstorm in their experience, and imagine the snow : lo be firo as it surged hither nnd thither beforo tho fury of llio fiend, they will be able to form a faint conception of tho flames as they raged through tho streets of our doomed city. Many of the buildings build-ings situated along South Water street buried their red hot reur walls in the waters of tho river, into which they plunged with a hiss like unto nothing earthly, throwing up a billow of water which would gradually subside until another wall would follow. The heat was so Intense at times, from some of tho burning buildings that thoy could not bo approached within one hundred nnd fifty feet, which accounts for tbo manner in which tho firo worked back and often against tho wind. The fire after reaching tho business part of Kan-dolph Kan-dolph and South Water streets, leaped the rivet onto tho north side in an incredible in-credible short spaco of time, and thence among the wooden buildings on that side it reached tho hike snore, attor touching block after block of happy dwellings with its fierce blast. A scene of more powcrloss elibrt to fight an enemy was never presented than that of Ihis. Tho pcoplo trying to combat the tiro fiend; nnd tho combat was not of long duration, for tho people bowed their heads in anguish of spirit and suffered suf-fered tho liend to have untramniollcd sway. And well and thoroughly has hodono his work; and as nothing of past history of civil izod nations chronicles anything to which thiscan be compared, so in all future timo tho great Chicngo lire, when mentioned, will bring to tiic heart of its participant a pang of anguish, an-guish, to future generations a simile of everything that is fearfnl nnd terrible. While there are a groat many instances of generous devolion on tho part of rich and poor, in dividing with tbe destitute, des-titute, there- aro painful instances ol selfishness. . Ono was trying to remove valuable papers from an office, of-fice, and asked two firemen to help him, which tbey refused unless ho paid them fifty dollars. The papers were destroyed. de-stroyed. Drivers ol express wagons have taken ono hundred and even Ave hundred dollars for an hour's use of their vehicles in getting distressed people peo-ple away. Among tho sad accompaniments accompani-ments of tho calamity was to soo hundreds hun-dreds of men and boys beastly intoxicated intoxi-cated around the streets of tho north division, where tho saloon keepers' stock, turned into tho street, furnished fur-nished a convanient opportunity for tho gratification ol'slakish propensities; and Chore can hardly be a doubt that many of those poor wretches found their death in too flames, from which they wore too helpless lo escape. One poor man had crowded for rofugo into a water main, lying in the streets near the water works, but tbe flro fiend found aim even there before ho could got his body wholly in safety and robbed him of his life. In the city there is no water except what is taken from tho lake. Very grave fears of outrages by tho thieves on lbo west side are felt on overy hand. Uonoral Sheridan, who has been a Lard worker all through tho lire, is still asking ask-ing for troops from diflercnt points to keep order. All business arid work is suspended, and everyone is intent in securing first something to eat, next shelter. The suffering on tho north side is heart-rending; men, women nnd children chil-dren 50,000 of them nro huddled together to-gether like so many wild animals, in one place; in another place 17,000 Germans Ger-mans and Irish, praying for relief. Helpless children aro asking for bread from heart-broken parents, who know not which way to turn or what to say nothing to do but await the distribution of supplies, which at best must bo a slow proceeding, os thero aro parts of the burnt districts over which it is almost impossible to travel. Women in tho pains of child-birth, and palionts who have been aroused from beds of sickness sick-ness to savo lives tliat nt .best wero nearly spent nil wero exposed to tho rain of last night nnd tho cold, rnw windi of to-day. Several deaths have occurred in Lincoln park, and throe women have brought children into the world only to dio. Thero aro people who in tho bitterness of their souls ascribe tho calamity to God's judgment. A German said to me, "this is a second Sodoin and Gomorrah Go-morrah and the curse is on it," Another' Ano-ther' night must be spent in Lincoln park, and tho brick fields at Division street, and yet another and another. JCaeh train and extras aro loaded to their fullest capacity taking people away, who in many instances havo no place to go( yet can't stay here; and every train is obliged to leavo live times as many as thoy take. Every precaution is being taken by tho authorities to guard tho people tonight, to-night, and if morning comes without robbcrijs, murders, or a renewal of the lire, then all will thaun. God and go forward for-ward with courage. The expression of -ympnlby on nil hands is most gratify j i, but more help must come. Tho Jour.uU will publish a paper to-night. Other papers will follow fol-low to-morrow. Relief for Chicago. Buffalo, 10. Tho council 'of this city has approprialed$100,00J for tho relief of tho Chicago sull'ercrs. The board of trade has made other generous contributions. con-tributions. Now York. 10. Tho governor of Now Jersey,, by proclamation, urges upon all in tho Stii to speedy contributions in money and clothing for thu relief of Iho suffering in Chicago. . London, it). The excitement in regard re-gard to tho lire in Chicago increases intensely as tho full extent oftho calamity calam-ity becomes known. Subscriptions will be oponed for tho ueliol'qf thu sufl'opors. Tho banking house of J. S. Morgan &, Co. tolograpiied their correspondent in Now York, to draw 5,000 in favor of tho relief fund. Boston, 10. A mooting lo-day was addressed by Sumner, Wilson nnd others. TliO1' trcasuior 'of tho meeting was authorized ; to telegraph iho mayor of Chicago to ((raw for $10,000 at once. Tho work of subscription is going on. Now York, 10. Brooklyn authorities promise $100,000. Leavenworth, Kan. ,10. The Leavenworth Leaven-worth Typographical Union has raised $100 for tho Buli'uiing printers or1 Chicago. Chi-cago. Contributions mo coming; in from all societies and organisations. A train load of supplies has gouo forward. for-ward. Kansas city, Mo., is subscribing liberally lib-erally io ti.o Luliuf of thu stricken of Chicago. Ihoiisands of dollars havo been raised and largo quantifies of provisions pro-visions donated. I St. Louis, 10. Largo additional sums 1 of money havo been raised for the Chi-; Chi-; cftgo Sdtrcreri and a groat quantity of provisions, clothing, bedding, Sic, has boon collected and forwarded already. Tbo interest in tho works shows no 1 diminution. Scores of sewing machines ' aro in operation by ladies making gnr-monU gnr-monU for the destitute women and ct.il-dren, ct.il-dren, and will bo kopt at work as long as any necessity requires. Four large boies of clothing were- made this nftoi-noon nftoi-noon and forv.ardcd to-night. A Urge quantity of government rations and other supplies went forward to-night, i New York, 10. At a meeting to-day of the Chamber of Commerce, to Conceive Con-ceive a plan of relief for tho Chicago sutloreii, the ubnujiption; was raised immediately to ipio.OOO. Private citizens citi-zens aro anxious lo contribute to t'je extent of their ability. Mechanics in lorgo works, aim employe in large factories, fac-tories, are giving from one to tivo (lavs' labor. All the theatrical managers hero and in Brooklyn announce benefits, and many people aro sending contributions to the newspaper offices for the sull'er-i sull'er-i ers. There is tbo most generous outflow out-flow of sympathy ever known in the city and vicinil V. The 'J-ird streol furry , ha; been crowded wilh carriages con-' con-' taining wealthy ladies bringing contributions contri-butions of clothing, money, lood and delicacies, t" be sent. Several hundred . inatlrasscs have also been sent to the j same dcp-l, and a iica y traiu left tu-i tu-i night over the Erie road. So great have I been the contributions that Jay Gould ' has ordered a special lightning train to .leave at 11 lo-morrow direct for Chi-' Chi-' cngo, lo have the right of way over the ; v.-hoto track, will; relays or engines. ; The iVe Masons are holding a special , communication to aid th.'ir brethren, j and all the- clergymen will invoke aid 1 from their congi egaiiona next Sabbath, |