| Show tremendous conflagration I 1 in chicago three miles bya hya mile mlle and a half fifty thousand people homeless and destitute 1 t chlo CHio Aad 9 noon the whole business portion of the tha city Is in iii ashes from harrison st north to chicago avenue and east of the river to the lake an area of three miles in length and a mile avalle to a mile and a half haic halcia la width every hotel bank express office with au the wholesale bouses houses in ithe city lArd e i many thousand dwellings atad shad early this marn ing the wind win A meir Veir perfect toot foot gale from the southwest south soth west ast with a sky eky 0 brass no can tall what the end will be bej the be only fal for abo the remainder of the city ia Is in tho the wind keeping its present direction fifty thousand people are hom bom homeless eless and most of them in a destitute condition the unburned streets ifor miles are lined with household goods no one dare think what the loss of life may be the flames iiames swept through the city with tho the rapidity of a prairie fire and many must have perished peris perls hed bed the western union telegraph has haa succeeded in getting up a few wires from a hastily improvised pro office in the southern part of ane the elty eity and establishing communication in nearly all directions magnificent offers of assistance are coming from every quarter |
