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Show FEARFUL CONFLAGRATION IN CHICAGO ! ; 1 100,000 People Homeless ! Chicago, 8, 10 p.iu. A fire is now racing in the west division, which appears ap-pears to he as large as the great fire of last night. Tlio nlarui was piven at y;-15 p.m., from the corner of llalstcad and Canal street, a distance of about two miles and a half from the Court llou.-e. Chicago, '.i, noon. The whole business busi-ness iioiiion of the cily is in ashes, from Uarriou street north to Chicago avenue, and eastward of the river to the lake,an area of three miles in length, by a mile to a mile aud. a half in width. JCvcry hotel, bank, express oflicc, telegraph tele-graph ollice, theatre und newspaper ollice, with all the wholesale houses in the etty, are totally destroyed, and many thousand dwellings. The waterworks water-works were destroyed early this morning. morn-ing. The wind is blowing a perfect galo from the southwest, with a sky of brass. No ono can tell what the end will be; tho only salvation fur the remainder re-mainder of tho city is the wind keeping its present direction. Fifty thousand people arc homeless, and most of them in a destitute condition. The un-burned un-burned street:) for miles arc lined with household goods. No one dare think whattlic loss of life may be. The flames swept through the city with the rapid-ity rapid-ity of a prairie lire, and many must have perished. The Western Union Telegraph Tele-graph has succeeded in getting up a few wires from a hastily improvised ollice in the southern part of the city, establishing connection in nearly all directions. Munificent, oilers of assistance assis-tance are coming from every quarter. Chicago, 3 p.m. The destruction is embraced in a district from lialsted street on the west, Harrison street on the south, straight north to Lincoln park into the woods beyond, which is in ashes. Only one building is left standing, the post office building, and that is completely gutted. One-hundred thousand women and children arc homeless and without food. A lot of prisoners under the old jail are burned to death. |