Show 1 I TO nm jib JIM ay iy Ut graph ewo iwo 0 7 O general chicago CHICAGO 9 evening A great many rn n y persons jumped into me river to escape the llames but only to drown hundreds of animals perished in the stables aud and streets it is estimated a hundred thousand people are homeless a large proportion of whom are destitute of everything cooked food is in great demand all surrounding towns will be requested to forward provisions and clothing for the hungry and nearly naked women and children as early as possible nearly neatly every city and town east of here has responded to this dem demand arid arld and it la Is hoped ewest th will not be backward later it la Is now believed the spread of the fire southward is stayed at harri hari bon son street buton but on the north side sidel it still drages and thal that entire division of pa thel then city eity deity delty seema seems to have been utterly destroyed d troy ed it is feared that the tho west alde bide bide aide of the north branch of the river will also be burned the inhabitants in n the section nearest the river are already moving further away I 1 later it is now ascertained that the waterworks water works are not nov destroyed and thera is 16 great j jy ay n r CHICAGO the simple fact that the great city of chicago is destroyed that hundreds of millions millious of active capital have been ruined and that a hundred thousand inhabitants are hona hosa eksa bre are enough any attempt to embellish would be but mockery As the awful day draws to a close thousands of anxious eyes watch the dense clouda clouds of smoke which still roll over the burnt districts with evident fear that a budden sudden budden change of wind may fan oan the flames there is however little cause for fod apprehension and reinforcements of firemen from other cities are constantly arriving col J J B S wilson supt bupt is in receipt of dispatches from leading cities announcing that aid is being forwarded for the ahe sufferers the mayor of st louis telegraphs that seventy thousand dollars have been subscribed by merchants cincinnati promises one hundred thousand and cleveland is proportionately generous all this and a great deal more will be needed to relieve the immediate pressing wants about three quarters of the U S mails wern were safe and were taken possession of by col wood of the post office service CHICAGO IQ 19 about 10 on sunday night a small barn on canal porte forte avenue not far from twelfth st west side was discovered to be on fire just such a little fire as has happened a thousand times before the wind at the time was blowing strongly from south south east owing to the extreme dryness everything was combustible buB bus tible tibie the biow slow beginning rapidly spread and soon ie reached ached 1 the adjoining property taking the course of the wind the fire began to move rapidly towards the he heart hearton artof of the city reaching the buildings below twelfth street the flamey flames rapidly devoured everything combustible in the way reaching beaching van Vau vanburen buren street bridge this was baug caught ht and quickly became a prey to the flames and but served to carry the fire across the river at this point the carnival of devastation and titter utter ruin began on the south side of the city in a short time the magnificent depot buildings of the michigan southern bouthern and rock bock island I 1 railroad co s were in lif flames from this time forward all the efforts of themire the nire fire department seemed unavailing CHICAGO 6 p m the progress of the flames in the south division was finally arrested about I 1 p m this was accomplished complis hed by the blowing up and demolishing polishing mo lishing Dg of several buildings on wabash avenue and congress streets by gen sheridan the district burned over in the south division embraces everything from the main branch of the chicago river to the lake embracing about a hundred blocks this district contained all the leading houses banki banks insurance offices hotels lye yle fec A large number of churches including bt marys cathedral st trinity first presbyterian second presbyterian bt st paul ac the methodist church on the corner of wal wai th avenue and congress streets is sa sav sax the michigan avenue hotel on i i corner of michigan avenue and co greba gresa street and the congress ha i directly adjoining on congress t are saved michigan terrace un on michigan avenue embracing the residence of lt gov bross hon mon J young S 0 gregge and arid other leading elti citizens zens are completely burned with the furniture and nearly all the other othen contents all the newspaper etab menta mento are totally wiped out the tribune building resisted for several hours but finally yielded when Mo VIckers theatre immediately adjoining which had bad also withstood with the raging element finally succumbed in fact all the buildings in the district which claimed to be nire fire proof shared sharr r the fate of or chose whick could make no such claim the th great central depot at lake street became a heap of or ruins about 9 most moat of the passenger pas pasi i cars of the michigan central burlington and laud quincy and illinois linb a central railroads we removed on t the e break water and sud saved west of clark dark street in the south the fire extended south as far as hs polk street sweeping everything before it the distance burned overmere over overl here loome three blocks ade ejde andover and over half a mile in length numbering about twenty blocks the buildings were generally of a cheaper class embracing saloons small shops poor residences aa the district burned over on the west side commences at taylor street I 1 running from to jefferson it ran thence four or five blocks north and then nearly diagonally towards the river and finally the west line was es on clinton street beaching thence to the river it moved in this line northward until it reached the northwestern and west side depots where it stopped a distance of nearly two miles from where it started the PF P V W 0 and st louis louls depots were in this territory both passenger and arid freight depots are wiped our al most the entire northern division from the main branch brandh of chicago river to lincoln park nearly two miles in length and one mile wide is completely destroyed include ing the water waier works a large arge number of elegant churches ac this statement embraces the district devastated and embraces almost the entire business portion of the city south of harri harrl i son street in the south division divisio nand and reaching out ont many miles and aud covered almost entirely with dwellings composed largely of the more elegant class is untouched and may now be regarded as safe from injury for miles and miles in every direction the side walks I 1 lawns vacant lots and front yards of dwellings are filled with people who have escaped from these burning dwellings taking with them only a scanty amount of their furni furniture and clothes the sight is truly pitiful and harrowing they must receive immediate relief or many will perish from exposure and starvation of course as stated in the morning dispatch it is utterly impossible tu to make an approximate estimate of the entire loss but it can scarcely fall below one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of course but a fraction of this amount can be realized from the insurance su rance gen sheridan has today to day telegraphed to st louis to the military department there to send at once to chicago rations he has also telegraphed tod toj to Omaha for two companies of ot regulars and one hundred tents they will be all here as soon as they can reach here by rail rall cewill he will also order another hundred thousand rations mayor mason has issued a proclamation calling a meeting mela meia ting tonight to night in the west division to see what the citizens can do for fon forthe the relief of the sufferer suffer erx erp there are at least people who know not where they can get enough provisions rovis lons ions to satisfy the appeals if eif gunger hunger A later rumor from the north division says the devastation is less wide spread than hitherto reported I 1 hear nodest no deaths hs reported by the dis disaster aster yet but undoubtedly many have perished cincinnati 9 the great fire in chicago monopolizes all attention Bu business Blaess is totally suspended the newspapers bulletins keep the people advised adil sed the extras by the morning press were early caught up the great calamity moves every heart A citizens meeting was called at the chamber of commerce and largely attended mayor davis presided committees on transportation and finance were ap pointed and subscriptions and casie cash payments were at once received th chamb chamber er of commerce g gave av e 0 many leading firms gave 1 1000 de 00 e ach each at 12 had been n sub but ascribed scribed bed athala at half balf pasteen past ten mayor daan sent by special train three steam fire engines and hose at the command ot of the city together with men necessary to man them thib this morning a large number ol 01 taa teams were sent by tucker sherman to assist in the removal of such furniture as had been saved sayid from the sherman house aid was telegraph telegraphed bd for to milwaukee at three on sunday morning and a number of fire engines we beret ret ence sent forward by express the banks have bave all been destroyed excepting the first national and the upper part of that is gutted cheva the vaults however are intact wife the hotels destroyed ire are froman buron boron street to the river aud and tid rid from the river io to the lake all were destroyed and the guests sought ought refuge in hotels in other oiher parts of the cie cit and the uhlon union stock yards ills the thie railroads easland south bouth aro are send bend ing duo tio trains out this forenoon as ali ail all 11 the carsin cars in the city over sunday are are pon et fined the incoming trains hib are all behind time owing to fires raging in iii the woods wid and prairies the evening trains will probably swartout star atari bout tout out on time the malls mails at the post office being con fumed of course all the accumulation of mail matters for two days have been consumed the mail for the stock yards are taken from the incoming trains for delivery there the water and gas works are both destroyed probably for some time the only supply of water will be from the lake and a substitute for the latter will have to be employed all the bridges across the chicago river from vanburen van buren euren to the lake have been burned and the only means menns of getting from one division of the city to the other is by the entrances which are badly blocked the newspaper offices have all or nearly all been swept out of exta existence tence and their material destroyed no papers have been or will be issued down town today to day the tho stock yards sun being the only one which has escaped the conflagration CHICAGO JO 10 pm later lster word is just brought that a fierce nire fire ishag is raging on thirty first bt st this street is two miles south of the southern nire fire limit on the south side and a little less than that from the limit anthe on the west side this has been set on fire for the purpose evidently of destroying the remaining part of the city eliy which is largely occupied by wealthy residents it is also known that two men caught in the act of firing buildings have been shot and two others led off with ropes around their n ecks necks As the wind is blowing a perfect gale the end cannot be foretold the village of cassello cas sello indiana on the line of the fort wayne railroad about thirty miles from chicago took fire last night might from the fire raging in the prairie sand was entirely destroyed fires are raging in the peat beds ear south bend bends ind cockerel and companion escaped nevada convicts reported killed have been captured alive CHICAGO 10 the following eloquent and truthful description of the fire has been furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work throughout none but an eye witness can form an idea of the f fury tury ury ary and power of the fire fiend as he revelled bevelled revel led among the palatial buildings and warehouses on the south side with the wind blowing a hurricane at times it seemed but the work of a moment for the fire to enter the south ends of build buildings ings lugs fronting on randolph lake and water streets and reappear atthe at the north doors and windows window si belching forth in fierce flames which often licked the opposite buildings and then the flames belching from buildings on both sides of the streets would unite and present a solid mass of fire completely petely filling the streets from side to side bide 4 and shooting upward a hundred feet into the air above the house tops in their mad career and thus was street after street filled with flames iiames and fire and the exultation of the fire fiend was given vent to in a roar which can only be equalled equal led by combining the noise of the oce ocean an when its waters are driven during a tempest upon a rocky beach with the howl of the blast huge walls would topple and fall into the sea of fire without apparently giving a sound as the roar of the fiery element was so igo great that all the minor sounds were swallowed up and the fall of walls was only perceptible to the eye and not to the ear if our readers will recall to their minds the fiercest snow storm in their experience and imagine the snow to be fire as ii it surged hither and thither before the fury of the fiend they will be arle arie adle atle to form a faint conception odthe of the flames as they raged through the streets of our doomed city many of the buildings situated along bouth south water wafer street buried their red hot rear walls in the waters of the river into which they plunged with a lifes hies 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 bome some of the burning buildings thit that they could not be approached within one hundred and fifty feet which account accounts for th the manner nerin in which the fire worked back and ind often against the wind the fire after reaching the he bustness business part of ran ban dolph dolp dolphard hand and south water streets leaped the rive river onto the north bide aide in an in credibly short space of time and thence among the wooden buildings u on that side it reached the lake shore bhore after touching block after block of bf happy hippy dwellings with its fierce blast A scene of chiore powerless effort to 16 fight an enemy was never presented than this the people tried 0 o combat the nire fire fiend but the combat warnot of long duration for the people bowed their heads in iff anguish of spirit and suffered twe the fiend to have untra milled way sway s adwell acdwell nd well weli and thoroughly has be done his work filid arid as nothing of ot past history of civilized rations bh chronicles ron rot anything to which this chit can ean be compared so in all future time the great chicago fire when mentioned will ang bring to the heart dt oti the sufferers a pang pan g of or anguish to future generations a simile of everything that is fearful and terrible while there are a great many instances of generous devotion on 04 the part of rich and poor in dividing wilh with the destitute there are painful instances of selfishness ona was waa trying to remove valuable papers tro fro from ia an office and asked two firemen to help him bim which they refused unless he paid bald them nifty fifty fl ft dollars the papers were destroyed driver drivers of express wagons have bave taken one hundred and even nive five dpn lip n dred dollars for an hours use of their vehicles in getting distressed people away among the sad accompaniments of the calamity was to see hundreds of |