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Show AM1LU0ND0LLAR FIRE ; ... . Chicago Su3V,r3 Prom the Most Disastrous ( I'm Eiuce the Great Goaflpgra- tioaof 1871. ' V PANIC STEIOIEN MUSEUM FSEAK3 A Fine Girl Baby Born Amid the Crash of Tailing Walls and the ShouU of - Piremen Other Firei. , ' v - . CniPAno, April 13. Chicago yester. V day evening suffered the most destruo- ' tive lire that nas occured since the fir .-.; of 1ST1. The loss is fully 11,000,000. It was almost in the geographical cen-ter cen-ter of the city that the llames started and, like the terrible disaster of twenty . : years ago, began in a stable. In this . case the stable was the property of the .) j well known furniture manufacturer and v1 ' politician, John M. Smyth, and was lo ; cated in th. rear of his big bourse furnishing fur-nishing establishment on West Madisou ' s ' street. The llames speedily spread to the furniture establishment, and a moment later to Kohl & Middleton's dime museum. mus-eum. The upper story of a three-story building on ttio northwest corner of Madison and I'nion streets caught fire. ' Flames lodged around the fifth story of the HayniHrket theater building and. was soon stretching along under the mansard roof. Just west of the Hay-market Hay-market the live-story building of the Peoplu's outlining company caught tir in front. . The Fri.ka Fxelt.d. . The first intimation the inmates of Kohl iVr Miudletod's museum had of the. close proximity of the tire was when. I some one opened a window on the third lloor, through w hich a volume of smoke-poured. smoke-poured. A wild panic followed among" tho 400 persons in the building. C.H., Messenger jumped from a wiudow and v, was frightfully injured. The excitement among tbe freak who were on exhibition on the thiroV floor was pitiful. They were practically practical-ly unable to help themselves and were) - v with difficulty restrained from throwing; themselves from the windows. Madame Carver, the UOD-pound woman, seized her son, dragged herself to a rear win-dow win-dow and was about to throw tbe child ( out, when sho was restrained by Man i f , ager Helmout, who with difficulty es corted. them down stairs. A. D. Lafayette, the father of tho hi headed boy, who was so top-heavy thu' -t he could not navigate alone, Beized )!; , t' V boy, and while leading him out fou' ..'" . the Albino girl, almost blind and gr iog about in the smoke. W ith the i headed boy under his arm, be s . ' tbe Albino, dragged her to tq stairv and soou reached the street. ' The tire in the llaymarkt theater was discovered jw?t Ve?irV5f iiiiijntes I.- . " V ton-(tin cVDr-tit,the Inst f, 3Ji - 1 smoke was barely pereeytible whea, j j nmnairer KteppYdtra the stage and fA s t I , to persuade the awlttnce to iile 8f. JL ! order. At, thi 'Hitmictit terwio ' ,7 (yelled fire am! a pauie neerrtett" '--tmthh j ' nt-nt. 1 he iexeitsiuie.it w-vs jpartiailT '; s , subdued by pryiiupt woik bu tne Jrt vf f 1 the ushers, and the theater a a,h- -. Cleared without any one gelling hart. V V 4 4Jy-l Ii.by Born. " . When the fire "Tiroke out. Dr. J. 5?. , ' Bergeron whs attending Mrs. Sara lb ' Macks in a flat in one of the buildings -subsequently burned. When the nr got too close, Bergeron seized the suf-' fering woman, and wrapping her in some blankets, descended three flights of stairs with his burden and carried ' her to a refuge nearby. In less than , . fifteen minutes a fine girl baby was born, amid the crash of falling wails) and shouts of firemen. Both mother and child are doing well. The ICpiscopal cathedral on Washing' ton boulevard caught tire .from llyinj; t sparks, but tbe llames were extinguished extin-guished before any damage was dono. t i ; One of the exciting incidents was tho panic which sie.ed the boarders at tbe , llaymarket hotel. When tho flames-leaped flames-leaped across the street about forty occupants oc-cupants of the hotel, including servants, made a wild rush tor the back stairway. The latter is a narrow, winding affair and became blocked, resulting in the) mob being badly bruised aud frightened, before getting out. Lou ud Ininraoee John M. Smyth's loss on stock and building is fully 50,O!)O; Kohl & Middle. ton, museum, iffo, 00(1; Nee ly Bros., boots and shoes, $'.'o,000; A. Kamptior, jeweler jewel-er 45.0fK; Alfred Peats, wall paper, ' -tfiiO.OOO; Mirrmann. tobacconist. $.'5,000; Hanna & Hogg, liquors. '.'0,0i0. Tl.a . k miscellaneous losses of the other firms and the llaymarket theater will bring the total up to a million. The insurance insur-ance is light. Smyth carried but $125, ono. Kohl & Middleton and Mirrmann had allowed theirs to lapse, as they ex- pected to move iu a couple of weeks. The insurance of the other sufferers it ' ( light. |