Show LETTER FROM A aho ho great crent calamity faithfully pon tito virster Vir lter ono no of tho cilia tile I 1 loor ioor jai in viler iller tito kite an fill acone 4 of tho itroia the yow now torl orl wo we have been permitted by a rent lenvin or of this city to panne and mako make extracts from a utter received by liim him this ni morning orning flout 1 a I filand lit in ill fuld chicago you are doubtless ns well wall abaro in now new york its i we vvo aro are hero here liow how great grant tin nn AM action bas fallen on oil our beloved garden city but it is impossible that you can funn form tiny liny correct idea of abo full extent of clio dread dreadful rul calamity for even ono possessing ft a most C vivid I 1 imagination magi nation could not possibly beallo to realize or describe di dL scribe tile I 1 kailas to which I 1 bavo li ivo been tin an eyewitness eye witness during tile aits you nho aho have paid frequent fie quent and I 1 I 1 trust rust pleasant visits to my house will mill doubtless remember that it stood in ill wabash Wn bail avenue that beautiful pilo has been utterly razed to tha clio ground by tile fire lland who mho tins bits lioN holfred ered with devastating wings over our city and now nothing but a fuw t liw charred timbers limbers and blackened bhicks maik its cital kital ala the leafy tracei which bich shadowed it tho ilia flower gleaming gardens in which wo we t took ok such tire now us indefinable as is thou though ii a volcano had buried them beneath SC acor IB AND akl cut I 1 must not repine fit at the will of providence pr for lie ile lias has bren been more merciful t to an me than to others ile iio lias bils spared to fill ma my dear ones rind and though of course much impoverished ed I 1 am not utterly ruined having pro property petty to SC elsewhere 1131 il p S i 1 V and hundreds of others whom I 1 could naino baltic phosa fin financial ancial prosperity pro deuty was last week a subject or of to lc anark ind and envy are now literally liter penniless 9 and left to begin the ilia rough battle of life lifa naich afi cli just when nihon they thought though they had re alicd aimed tle the acme of their ambition an annuity of aniu once hut but these clicc nrc are men who possess talent and energy and erful friends in other oilier cities cilie find and thoro fore may in course of tune time bo be ablo to retrieve tilt lliter it fallen fortunes it is tile ilia middle and CLASSES vilio bai a a pi bior I 1 light ight to sympathy sym pithy for ta their e ll 11 r little all lias ins been swept utterly from tl them e m tito the mechanic iho vilh icare of arduous toil had managed to purchase or build a dwelling of hisgun and elioso arnle eprile it WM was that lie he lived rent free happy it in tile mosooi of liis his family is ii now an exile starving it on the plains with scare a crust or log to share with his wife N ire and lilola ones tile tho seener which I 1 have been it a witness to d during J ring tile the past few days defy description the they y are too liar harrowing rowin to tho ilia feelings of one who N with ith all tile evidence ormi of misery scry around him but I 1 will endeavor to give you a laconic account of tho the burning of my lily house find and what subsequently occurred you hava hare doubt doubtless leas left by telegraph I 1 I 1 I 1 ere this IN alien tell tile lire broke out and lit in what locality but perhaps you are not aware of its origin As if to illustrate tha truth of tile old quotation ex I 1 a buy boy who went to wilk milk it a cow in a shed took will ith him it a kerosene lamp chich the animal tin licked kicked ov over c r rind and cn caiseda ased to explode e 1 ilia result is tho ilia almost entire destruction or of one of the ilia most magnificent cities of vi which the new world cou could id boast the loss of about and the utter titter impoverishment of hundred of thousands of honest liard hard working citizens AND roon ALIKE arave suffered but ilia litter latter feel their losses tho the most acutely for fir w winter inter is coming on apace and they who have suffered ailva eions tons in tho the past drad arend it the more intent itly in in tile the future with regard to tho the turn burning of my house it wilt was not until the conflagration fla had biad extended to and cro crossed sed tile south branch of the rive that I 1 had the sli fears lor for its but when tile the flames began to lap tip up with thirsty tongues everything that I 1 impeded in pe do it th their air pro gross and the ell orts made by us nil all for I 1 worked with the thousands of other willing hands to subdue them proved unavailing I 1 determined to take some steps towards providing for the ilia safety of my family rind and furniture tito iro fire had reached tho the rock hock island depot and had spread nearly to washington ft treat act ere cro I 1 ilia im 11 scone of action and went home I 1 found m my y wiro wife find and children in a state of great trepidation from ill the 0 direction of tile tho wind nind and tho the course the ilia lire was isas taking and fearing tile the whole of tile western portion of t ile city would bo be I 1 conveyed them to the hie house of a friend situated near fit tha union of twelfth street and wabash aballi avenue hailing seen thern them safely boll housed ged I 1 turned my attention to carting tha hobt valuable and cherished of my I 1 lares ire and to a tore store near the hie basin basill on oil twelfth street it II was with much difficulty that eliat I 1 succeeded in getting ilia second kitick load to their place of IC for the ilia greedy clement was ario advancing with ith rapid strides tile the streets were choked with a siti surging ging wailing crowd of humanity and my horses were much ter car rifled I 1 never saw my beautiful house apin again my pro progress grobs was arrested long before I 1 could leach it eien een though it was a pit bablo sight it was nevertheless a magnificent spectacle earth and sky eato to lc be united in a brilliant brilli int cloud of amb amber ri or and crimson and the rush and roar rear 0 of tho flame fanned by tile tho virulent wind so seemed e ned ill like a the I 1 astling wings of the like dark angel leitel Lf aabel itel it was majestic it was grand sublime yet paralyzing talk of tilt HORRORS S OF WAX WAR forsooth r or sooth I 1 have been as you know in it many I 1 tiny it a well fought faught fray but never in tile Latt battles les brunt or in it beleaguered beleaguer ed city titor ined by explosive missiles from mans dead engines ol of war did I 1 ever see ace aught to compain with ilia awfulness of tho the scene tito flames ns AS they sprang skyward shot into to space it perfect hail of glowing ambers and all as they ley rell full it beel lied as though gri SEVENTH VIAL TEAL arid been opened find and heaven wits was paul pouring ing out its wrath upon our loomed doomed city if larave ave mens mans checks were acro blitt bli inched lebed to lily whiteness with the ilia fear fi ar of the ill dread here crayons cravens gao agno vitty to to tears and joined lair lamentations with those of tile tho women nad and children who mho heinch si and in hopeless nc hod lif flier and not knowing which wiy tiny to turn to escape tile tho ravenous rury fury of the flamos when all liopo hope of saying saving even an ali infinite infinitesimal sinal portion of our once fair city had pained awny away tile lie unseen clouds 13 above us its opened find and welcome rain poured down lit in toi lents 1111 leina g 0 r filed atad the weakened workers they had i 1 a powerful ally now and in the iho course of a low lew hours hour the hie bright blaze was vins hidden in dark volumes of smoke all is oer now but tile appe appearance alance of orilie ilia place placa is pitiful indeed pur 1 ur miles nothing but heaps of ruins incel the th eye what Wha twits was once an all lidyia is now nov a desert indeed one hundis thOL thousand ISREd starving find and without laim all those attlio ito lavo and they fire few alid indeed ed are arc doing their utmost to alliy tile elli diio ar tr ings ing of fellow towns min lint klinl ii so EO little liolla among 0 o many Welin vo annjo fur for succor to towns and cities far 2 a ciul 1 I near and the llie answers reached are on cn cou raZing lut but unless speedily ipe odily ar litos ives I 1 tun will lo 10 ilie ilia number of aloo thoo inho w have already learned tile dread secret cannot be 10 yet computed lend your best endeavors to thosa in your happy peaceful oty city to ui its tile tiie supplies or of which wo we 11 stand land so much rami in need 11 |