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Show By W. U. Tetcarai.h. ' CONDITION OF CHICAGO. -HOPE-FIX DETAILS. Chicago, 20. The Trillin Ibis morning publishes an exact statement of the number of builOings de.-troyed by the great tire, with a careful estimate esti-mate of the number of people rendered homeless, and the estimate of what is left. The total area of the city is stated lobe over 2,300 acres, including the annexed territory' west of the ; western avenue, and the total number of buildings before the fire about sixty j thousand. On the soutli side the fire ; destroyed nearly everything in the first and second wards, and a light portion , in the north-west corner of the third, f Its southern line on Michigan avenue was Congre-s street, on Clark, Harri- son and Wells streets, a point a little below Polk. The area of the j burnt district on this side is 4-0 acres, j There were destroyed 3,000 buildings, I including 1,600 store, twenty-eight ' hotels and sixty manufacturing eslab-. lishmenls; and 21,000 persons were turned out of their homes, the .greater number of whom lived west of State; strecet, where they were closely packed. I The residents ia the first ward generally j lived in hotels or furnished rooms, ex- , cept where many poor families wore ; congregated. On the north side 1,-00 : acres were burned over, out of the i 2,f)00in that division, leaving intact a small portion on Kenzio street near i tho river, and several houses north of Division and west of Orchard street, ; including over six hundred stores and ( ments. About 70,000 persons were i deprived of homes, and aro sojourning on tho west side or have left the city. Out of a population of 77, OOO.only about 7,000 have houses which they can claim as their own, and thcro are not over (1,000 houses left standing, for tho district dis-trict burned over embraced most of the settled area of the north division. 'While tlie amount of ground burned 1 over in the wost division was not great, ; not exceeding loO acres, and while , much of that was occupied by lumber : yards, eto., the poople who lived there were very closely packed together and between one and two thousand people must have dwolt there. The valuo of the houses dostroyed was comparatively comparative-ly light, they being nearly all l'ramo buildings. It appears then that out of tho 00,000 buildings in Chicago, only about 1 3.500 havo been destroyed; and that whilo 92,000 persons havo been driven from their homos, over 2-15,000 ; have not been affected in that way, ; Tho whole immense area of the west i division, with its miles of dwelling j houses, its stores and business blocks, is almost intact; whilo on the south side remain tho great mass of its , dwelling houses ol the better class, I many manufactories and fioo business ' blocks which have been erecting on 22d St. and archer Avenue and other points, many of its finest churches, and tho innumorabto manufactories which abound in tho Sixth Ward. Tlie west division, however, is a complete city itsolf, with shops and storos, coal and lumber yards, churches and manufactories, manufac-tories, and miles of paved streots, bgw-ered bgw-ered and lighted. It has tho only thoa-tres thoa-tres in the city, Ihc Globe and tho various vari-ous German halls;and hotels which, with changed namos, are accommodating tho rush of poople now visiting the city. Tho buildings destroyed in this division by tho fire were of littlo valuo, and almost enough will bo put up this season to replace thorn. There are, to be prcciso, about sixty churches, sixteen six-teen hundred stores, six hundred manufacturing man-ufacturing establishments and workshops, work-shops, and twenty thousand five hundred hun-dred dwelling houses still standing in the west division, so there is as yet no reason for excessive despondency. Tho north and south side rolling mills arc still furnishing employment to hundreds hun-dreds of workmen. This . samo discovery dis-covery was also made on tho south side, that much as had been lost much remained. The widening of State street has stimulated improvements down on that thoroughfare, while the eastern part 'oft "Archer avenue aud Thirty-second street had been greatly improved. Tho railroads which came in there were enabled to carry on their business, and tho remaining elevators . Iiniro Wn dUa. tv"--ft a tu ill school building has also been light, only ono having been consumed, and thirty churches and over thirteen thousand thou-sand buildings in all yet remain there. The street railroads are unburncd and ten distilleries and breweries are still in full operation. It was on the north side that tho loss was the greatest, for there it wa3 the most thorough; but the water works aro there, tho sewers aro thcro, the filled streets aro there, tho churches are ruined, but they aro . still holy points, the first to be rebuilt, and around which buildings will rapidly spring up; two schools remain, the gas works are left and are ready to supply the north and south sides, while ' much of tho lumber and ooal lying near the basin has gone through unharmed. un-harmed. The bridges on the north are not materially injured, and while none remain on tho river, yet there "ig tho La Salle street tunnel. |