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Chicago Conflagration 3 CHICAGO CONFLAGRATION, v: THE ORIGIN AND I HAIR-BREA1 CA CL Ooxxoot FOH .SALE BY ST. I,OMtt BOOK ASI> NKUS < O. r , 20 O J?S. LAWRENCE J. GUTTER Collection of Chico.goo.na THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO The University Library THE GREAT CHICAGO CONFLAGRATION. THK FIRST NEWS. THK SATURDAY NIGHT FIRE. the St. Louis October The lire started in tne large planing mill | From Times, lltb.J situated bat ween Clinton and Canal and What -will doubtless prove the most de- Van Buren and Jackson streets, about the structive conflagration of modern times center of the block formed by these has been raging for two days and nights in streets. The wind was blowing very fresh and the flames spread with almost our sister city of Chicago, laying waste incredible rapidity, and in a few minutes alike the dwellings of the poor and the pal- the entire structure was a mass of fire. aces of the rich, magnificent stores, with The immediate vicinity was built up with small wooden tenement thir millions of merchandise, hotels and mainly houses and two-story frame buildings, oc- public buildings, gas-works, depots and cupied as groceries, saloons, te. The in- waterworks; everything, in fact, that ;lay mates of many of the houses, startled from slumber, had time to rush from the in the broad swarth of the destroyer for barely houses in the scanty attire of night, leav- miles. The city, which at the close of the ing their household goods to destruction. week was bustling with prosperity and In several instances children were hastily wrapped in blankets and quilts to break in its greatness, is now. for the great- proud the force of their fall, and thrown from the er part a lurid waste. A hundred thou- second story windows to the ground. sand are homeless, and thousands beside INDESCRIBABLE SCENES. The scenes in the vicinity of the confla- are beggared. It is the gration the brief telegraphic dispatch said GREATEST FIRE IN MODERN HISTORY. were indescribable. Half the population Considering the magnitude of the inter- of the city seems to have gathered there. in the river were in towing ests the wholesale Tugs engaged involved, devastation, to places of safety the vessels moored in the untold wretchedness that it has caused, the neighborhood, while locomotives were the effect upon commercial interests ana hastily pulling out the great number of transportation that must follow, it may be cars standing on the track in the path of set down as the greatest calamity of a sim- the flames. ilar character of which there is any recent. The loss in property by this flre, which We do not except even swept over about twenty blocks, has never THE GREAT FIRE IN LONDON, been carefully estimated, being submerged fol- for the aggregate losses will undoubtedly by the overshadowing calamity k of the be greater now than then. If our later ad- lowing day. vicea are correct that upwards of ten thou- sand buildings have been burned; it already THE SUNDAY NIGHT VIRE. approaches the London conflagration lu magnitude, when but thirteen thousand HOW THE FIRB ORIGINATED. houses were destroyed. Our fears are that Late Sundav evening a boy we at into a it may even exceeait. stable on De Kowen street, (marked There seems to have been two distinctive K. on the map,) near tne river, fires, one occurring Saturday night of on the west side, to milk a cow, carrying which notice was published in the Sunday with him a kerosene lamp. This waa morning papers, and which we were led to kicked over by the cow, and the burning believe had been brought under the entire fluid scattered among the straw. This waa control of the department. the beginning of the great flre. A single extinguisher on the* ground, or active work street and Michigan avenw, and soon of the police in tearing down one or two McVicker's theater caught fire. In a few shanties, would have prevented the spread- moments the Tribune was in flames, and at ing of the flames; bat the engines were the last moment the sleeping men were waited for, and when they arrived the fire aroused and rescued from the flames. By men, stupefied by exertioa at the fire Satur- 10 o'clock in the forenoon this remaining day night, worked slowly and clumsily. block was in ashes. Now was to be seu THEIR EFFORTS WERE UNAVAILING the most remarkable sight ever beheld in The wind from the southwest blew a gale. this or any other country. Rapidly the flames shot from house to THE FLIGHT OF A PANIC STRICKEN MULTI- house tnd board yard to board yard, until TUDE. the district burned the night before was There were from 60,000 to 75.000 mn reached. Meanwhile the flames crossed women and children fleeing by every the river north of Twelfth street on to the available street and alley to the southward South side, and made for a brick and stone and westward, attempting to save their business block, the railroad freight depots clothing and their Jives. Every available and manufacturing establishments. The vehicle was brought into requisition for full extent of the danger was Chen realized use, for which enormous prices were paid, for the first time. The fire department, al- and the streets and si >le walks presented ready tired, worked like heroes The the sight of thousands of persons mayor and his city government, who had and horfes inextricably commingled; t supinely rested, now began to exert them poor people of all colors and shades selves, but and every nationality, from Europe, China THE OPPORTUNITY HAD BEEN LOST. and Africa, mad with excitement, strug- The time when a thorough organization gled with each other to get away. Hun- could have blown up buildings or prepared dreds were trampled under foot; men and lor the emergency was neglected- It was women were loaded with bundles and their now a fight for life. A stiff gale had pos- household goods, to whose skirts, were session of the flames, and the beautiful clinging tender infants, half-drested and buildings, Chicago's glory, lay before barefooted, all seeking a place of safety. them. Harrison, VanBuren, Adams, Mon- Hours afterwards these might have roe and Madison were soon reached. The been seen in vacant lots or on the streets, intervening blocks from the river to Dear- far out in the suburbs, stretched in the born street on the east were being con- dust. sumed. Three quarters of a mile of brick FIVE HUNDRED BURNED TO DEATH. blocks were consumed as if by magic. It is fearful to think of the loss of life. THE FURIOUS INTENSITY OF THE FLAMES. It is conjectured, and with good cause, All that men could do was to blow uy that near five hundred have been burned buildings, but this availed but little. The to death. We saw four men enter a burn- Times, Tribune, Post, Republican, Journal ing building, and in a moment they were and other newspaper offices. Western News overwhelmed by a falling wall. There company's block, Field & Letter's estab was a crowd of men around the corner of lishments. a brick block recently built. the bulding, trying to save the property, Farwell & Co. were soon in aehee. Ic when, the wall yielding, some of them seemed that no sooner had the flames w^re buried beneath it. These were on the struck a wall than they went di-n.-.tly South side. Ou the North side twelve or through, and a very few minutes mrtioed fifteen men, women and children rushed to destroy the most elaborately built cruc- into the building of the Historical society, ture. The walls melted and the bricks a fire proof building, for safety. In a few were consumed. minutes the flames burst up and they were The wooden pavements took flre.making burned to death. a continuous frheet of flame two miles long by one mile wide. No human being could AN ACCOUNT BY AN EYE WITNESS. possibly survive rnauy minutes. Block af- ter block the fell, and red hot coals shot The following eloquent and truthful de- and and further higher higher, spread and scription of the fire was furnished by a further, unHl the North eide.Lake side and gentleman who participated iu the work South was a vast sheet of flames from the throughout. No one bur, river to the lake At one time so hemmed AN EVE-WITNESS in were the people that it WAS expected can form an idea of the and of thousands fury power must perish. the fire fiend, as he reveled among the pa- THE WORK OF A NIGHT. latial buildings and warehouses. On the One block in all tne vaet business section south side, with the wind blowing a hurri- remained at daylighr, the Tribune block. cane, at times it seemed but the work of a The custom house and Honore block, on moment for the fire to enter the south end* Dearborn street, had burned, and those of the building* fronting on Randolph, who had fought the flames here thought Lake and Water streets, and reappear at at last this tuock could be saved. A t>atrol the north doors and windows, belching of men, under Sam. Meriili. swept oil' the forth in fierce flames, which often licked live coals, ami put eut fUmes on the side- the opposite buildings Then the flames, walks, and another lot of men, under the belching from the buildings on both sides direction of Hon.
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