Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1872, Page 5

of the wind, the course it Indicated. iany o the residonts of the ehnded quartcr, east of State and south of Chicago avenue, dwalling in houses surrounded with grounds and oceasicnal 1y flanked by open’ sm'kg, ‘made s desparats fight for their homes and their churches, ~ Thanks to an abundant suppiy of cistern-water, Mahlan D: Opden mcceeded; but the moment the Water ‘Works gave out,the others absndonod a ruiticas urdertaking, and fled for their lives to the nare row sand-beach, or to Lincoln Park. It was 8 o'el Jondey morning when - the flam skip) over & quarterof a mileof territory- the great browesios souta of the Water Workh, attacked that building, and scon compelled the workmen and_engineers to stop, and, with the lauthfl.\mb of theg Imassive enmgimi.the pulsations ©of hope stopped in many & K On tho North, a3 on the.South Sido, tha e in its onward course overleaped entirs blocks, aud then worked backward and" destroyed them. At the same time, notwithstanding the wind, i8 worked steadily westward. Up fo 8 o'slock. thase living north of Chicago aveaus and wes$ of LaSalle street had hopad to escape. Daceive od by thoriver, they sl put faith in 2 handred- foot street. But the flames, running up Clark stroetand catching Purner Hall and the new builds ing northof it, worked west and got into the briek. blocks on the east side of LeSalle stroet, nnd then crossed over to the west side at about the same time it crossod Chieago avenus, and seized upon » planing mill a block north of there. S8 little sn_sppreciation of the situstion had the peaple in the neighborhood, that they carried quantities of articlos to a vacant lot ad the tiorner of Frnnlhnl kli l;nd Elm ublraef:; bud nearly eve ing left there was bonrnt or Slen. The . fe. miored steadily st among the myriad frame buildings of that quar- ter until i} reeched the North Branch, and then burnt northward, until, when it rcached Bincke hawk sizeet, it began to edge toward the ef and finally, by Mondsy at midnight, sto] near the comer of Fullerton avenue and Clark strect. At the southern extremity of the Northy Side it had extended no further west than Mare et atreat, leating untouchod the buildings o Kinzie street, ‘near the river, and the old Iowa elovetor, at the junction of the branches. Bas on Division street it got a8 far west as Halsted, and stopped there simply because thers wad nothing left to burn. This may serve 2 an ine dication of what_wonld have nappaned on the West Side if Saturday’s fire had not happoned, and there hiad been & line of tlame an Jefferson straet, from Taylor ta the North Branch. DESTBUCTION OF PEOPERTY. The fire commencing at 9 o'clock Bunday even» ing, snd Tasting 41l Monday at midnight, barmed - over o tomitory shout four miles in langth, acd an average of two-thirds of a mile in breadth, and comprising ebout 3,687.89 acrps, hour. On' the West Side lbcntfioflbnfldiézg ' Di~ ANSIVERSARY e OF TEE - GREAT I'IRE. A Year's Elistory .of Chiczigo. The City Before,: During, and After the: Fire. Losses and Irisurance. The World’s (Charity. Operations of the Relief Tho thiren clu hero prozentad reprosent Ist, the old Tamy: Puilding; 3, Society. : The Great Rebuilding. Tiing from Hottom W iup—, o~ o woang exclusively for the use of printess end other employes of the Termuxe. All tho rooms will be heated by stear. The cost of tho former Trinuyk building, ex- «clusive of machinery, was $208,000. It is estimated that $100,000 was eaved in the form of interior walls left standiug, foundations, 6xcava- tion, iron besms, columns, and coilings. The new building has cost $165,000 additional. It is one story higher than the former building, and in most respects euperior, and especially £0 as regards tle floors and roof. It will challenge comparison with any building in the United States, public or private, for durstility snd fire-proof qualities. The architects of the new building are Burling, Adler & Co. Theprinci- pal contractors were 28 follows: The Gindele Stoue-Cutting Company, stonework; Carter Bros, mason-work; the Union Foundry Company, iron-work and corrugsted ceiling; the Fire Proof Building Company, iron Inth and cement flooring ; F. A. Doolittle, Agent for Hargreaves & Cravon, Jackfield. Shropshire, England, tile floors; N. B. Warwick, car- menter-work: S, I Russell, doors and window-casings; E. Atwatsr & Cn., ‘Alon- +treal, plate-giaes; S. W. Swift, the glazing ; the Philadelphia Arch-Tron Coinpany, e rooi und cornice ; Hlincis Pa Company, the paving of the prese-room floor; Swiney Bros, the furniture for tko counting-rocm; A. H, Andrews & Co,, furnituro for the editorial-room ; Simons & Co., the compeei Hayes Bros, No, 203 LoSallo street, tho sky-light: B, & J. Lindsey, of Ko, 73 . Fulton streot, New York, the tyge; H. Watts, the plumbing; Wim. Soveriz, the Siting up of dachinery ; Chatles Yet, tho i etairwase Bros, New York, the nlenwn‘:rcii\btnn & co“'.h":;:&flfii’nmdm i&k‘;r &imlkh",sl’ha hrfiafing apparatua; W. H. Patterson, 5 0 presses ; Kava~ DD & Mersiam, the sldewallc; Chicago Faving Compony, Taving shes. il TRIBUNE BUILDINGS. ; e the Inzgest of the thres cuts, situated on tho southeast P Destbom and Madison sizents—72 Ly 121 fect. Thoodloria, compos- i tvping, snd press rooms are now sufficiently sdvanced for oceupen; - ey ahiais. o buldany wll not bo completed 1n allfta paia foF verheps = menth to come. We abeil therefors postpone a completedeseriotion | Hotels, Newspaper Offices, Pub- | 5¢icuntl it s zesdy to b inspected by tho public. Far the present wo will ob- i i ildi save thal it is ntened b0 b L et 6F Enghioh. ton of wetimaciol sot. i o - a R lic and Private Buildings. oy o thote, of tho bsement and tho Composing-room—tbe {oimer being of aspalt, and tho Iatter of artifcial marble, both incombustible, The e oodmork entering into tho construction of tho bullding ia in the window Trade he | Trhes, doors, and watas-closets, fao burming of all which c<zid in no wiae im- Lt and Commerce of the | IiE: tailaing in other parts, ' The buildig will bo provided with & passen- zer-clevetor running from the first to the Bfth story, and spesking-tnbos com- Year. B oating with all the rooms. Thero are also W &ets of iron stairways ran- give cherchies from Weshingion street down to | 2 rate of increase which elsewhera would be con- = “} ghould be made of the thanksof Chicago for ; ; Twenty-second etrect; which was then looked on | 8idered marvellons, as ggosusabuxbm:' purt of thocity. It was B,c‘i‘;f the night was coming when no man wasto X N t meons generosity of which it was the Real Estate and Insurmnee | Ssterontsmeons soeod o sy toan ¢ expected, by the more sanguine, that {:mda CAUSES OF THE FIRE. woald graduclly 2dvenee southward, but elowly, Bat with all these superb buildings, these Tnterests. tho flames that destroyed the city, and which mesees of brick and stone and iron which cov- lasted long =fter they had died oway, _ Never before bod thero been &o goneral fery elowly, a block in ono or twa years. ered somuch of the northern portion of the THS NOBTH SIDE, Soxth Division, the pride of our citizens and On s 08, ond o rapid a Tesponss to the wants - Our Municipal Governmenf. } o » distressed community. The sight of |too, hed assumed = Jofinito charecter, It, t00, | tio admirstion of strangers, with an apperently badite sitractions, and if, too, its contrasts, | efficient Fira Depatment and o supply of water much suffering “made the whols world % 3 ;:_L" namedgchcitywhae it had not ex- | though net as vivid ss thse which existed in &f&gfigg& :!prg ‘l‘md?m‘_g gd m Apusement Record---The NeW | isiod betora. It gushed forth unexpected, liko | the Soath Division. With fhe axception of its Sanstraetion, G the cify: wis fn - e waters from the rock a6 Horeb, and flowed | sonthern estpemity, it wna slmost exclusively | Sgie (350; Sofectivg, 1o o Doparion Theatres. 1. { i & constant strenm antil the necessities of the | devoted to residenco plrposes, that portion | and the water supply dopendantupon the mezest 3 oufferens wero appeased. Rival cities, distant [east of Clark strest being occupiod by | secident. Tho fizst difiiculty was almost inovi- il Sates, communtios slien in tongue and |iho pleasant snd sttractive residences of | teble. It can only bo fully appreciated afier A te. Ete. 8 5 % such & fire as we bave had. Even after that, ex- Bley, Btog, e, reparated by brosd oceans, all shared | the wealthy, while west of it were thehomes of | Torienco Tan o own that it e s in the work of relief. Neither eculptured }those who wers not so wall endowed with world- | can be but elightly allevisied. Tha other monmments mor officiel acknowledgments |1y zoods, of thoss wko wore pooz, and who were | troubles should not hiave exieted, bnt they came will gofciently sing their prafsos, Their i moderate circum: - i nbout 0 npaturally that no ome can gratefc] opprecistion is engraved onihe i e ho auioh Soses & thg | Tessonably blame Rimsell for nob having most 2] 21 Frearts of thoso whem they succored, and from river gnd pessing through the quiet stares atthe | 1o5ided for them, In the prairie tovns remots orsble than all others in the history of Chicago. fem must com the most eamest snd gincere esstern eadof Kinzio and Michigan streets, we | from Chicago the cost of o e The date of its first settlement, and the time - anderedelowiy along benoaih vows of foarih- | greatly enbancod tho cost of umber, whila the e o ¢ 5 7 when it was organized as s city, will be siike f thenks. hurm.s!.hesm of nun:‘.;m ful of her great city. What sheco ing-room furniture ; and Monroe, end Wells and Merket streats. That was suficiont, and in & mozent the entiro eide of the houso was nbleze. From this build- ing the swift infection passed to the wooden shantics on * Conley’s Patch,” in the neighbor- hood of the Armory, end the fate of the South Side was sealed. "The messenger, hurrying around to inform the firemen on the West Side, of the changed aspect of affairs, had not reache his destination when the firemen themselves bad noticed tho leaping blaze and rising smoke on tho other side of the South Branch, and the Chief of the Department, nkenéyflndin&l;imnefl unable to cope with the perplexities of the situa- tion, ordered whatheconld scross the river. Hod they reached their new fleld of labor earlier they could have done little ; 88 it was they ac- compliched nothing. From that time on, With- out a commander, without system, and, 800D after, without water, they fought gallantly and stubbornly, but disunitedly and - withont success. Inaminute or two, apparently, after | viceablo. On the South Side, the First Nationad the fire had gotten herdway on the South Side, | Bank Building, on the corner of State and Weahe it had resched the southern line of Monroe | ington streets, THE TemuNe Puilding, the east street, all the way from Wells to Market. Jump- wini:,( the Court House, and the Fost,Offica ing Monroo street, it seized upon the stables of | building wero guited, but stll stahding. J. V. Ferwell & Co., and at the same time it | Portions of the walls of tha Fare crossed Wells stroet and continued eastwardly. [ well Block, and the front and ‘This neighborhood, thus repidly burnt over, was | part of the side walls of the Pacific Hotel, gf thickly eettled with disreputsble characters, | and were afterwards used. The side! ‘m thieves, and prostitutes. The strests were sud- | vanished ; the pavements wers in some places denly filed with women, some half crazy with | mere honescombed charcoal; eight bridges wors liquot and others with fear. The speed of the | destroyed, and thousands of treas hed Been kill- flames was snch es to leave no time to look after | ed, The rails of the stveot railwsys bad been anything but personal safety, and b that many | twisted from the leepers, The roads were of tho creatures were unmindful an choked with piles of smoking dsbris. ~Watar carlier victims of the disaster. It took this | thers was mone. In estimating the loss, sl} branch of tho fire but a short time to dispose of | spoke of hundreds of millions, with the excep- these wooden buildings, and, bfl_n quarter to 1, | tion of an Iows editor, who talked of an ime it had worked as far as on and LaSalle | mense destruction to the amount of half a mil- streets and the borders of the more substantinlly- | lion, Buthelivedin a provincial town which built portion of the South Bide, would not have brought that amount st afair sale, A little prior to this time, the fire had again| Inthe first placo, the Auditor ssys: *Tho crossed the Sonth Branch near Van Buren street, | amount of risk in the burat district 18 $100,995,~ where the rows of wooden buildings on Market | 780. To estimate that the property actually in~ streot and the remainder of Conley's Patch gave | sured was coverad by risks, on an asverage, to it o eure and easy foothold. Working eastward- | the extent of two-thirds of its ‘value, would 1y even more rapidly then the other, and com- | make the valus. of. the insured rty 8150,~ pleting the destruction of whatever its_prede- | 339,670. I eatimato that Within it of the cessor had left untouched, it Teached LaSalle | burnt district, there wasin round numbers, ex- street about 1 o'clock, and united with the ad- | cluding the lsnd, 850,000,000 in value of proper- vance column from that point, sweeping every- |ty upon which no insurance’ existed, im zm;gbexm it, as it purmued its almost due | which amount I include intangible property northenst course. The wind, thereas elaowhers, | which is never insured. This sssumes thaf carried the fire far in advance. ~ Buildings long | excluding the valus of 1and, Insurance oovered® distance shend of the main body of the fire were | about one-helf of the actusl value of all proper- ablaze, and destroyed soomer than those in the | tyin the bumt district, and thst the fotsl o2 rear of them. Tho Orientsl Buildings were | such wealth, in round numbers, was 8200,000,000. kindled, while Wells street, to the immediate | From this amonnt deduct the $35,000,000 whichy southwest, was still untonched. Thus promi- | I estimato as the value of the tangibleand in- nent buildings like the Chambér of Commercs | tangible property not-destroyed, and it leaves sms,noq‘ow 83 tho value of property not de~ In the second gflme,tlm Aunditor tskesssm basis the sssessed valustion of property foo State snd county taxation, which had been com~ slsted but & short time before the fire. After leducting the value of the land, it amounted ta. §23,500,000, which was, On a0 Avernge, omee fourth of theactual value of the mmuw ed, making the actual valnafi&. ,000. He estimates further, that ene-third of the property in the city does not find o place upon the As~ sessor’s books, religious, charitsble, and publio Proj being exempted under the 1aw, and much which ehould pay texes eacaping the obe the West Side, near the ccrner of Clinton and an Buren streets, apd femned by the violent southrwest wind sproad rapi dly towerd the north 3ad east, firding in_its path wocden dwelling- Eouses, planing mills, and Zumber yards. The TFire Depariment was soon trpon the ground, but not before the flames had cbteined a firm foot- hold. The firemen fought «ssperstely on Clin- ton and Jackson siveets, hut the conflagration swept unheeding. Tho bealliancy of the light attracted Efop from all directions, and the streets in the vi *.z were jemnmed with pecple. Violent gusts of wind lifted. mp blazing shingles and smouldering brands, snd carried them for blocks. At the corner of Market and Madison streots the sparks foll almost incessanily. Large picces of wood, yot red, fell at the esstern end of the Washington strect tunnel, and smaller ones waro caxried 28 far as Wells street bridge. The sky wos alive with sperks. There wasan incessant fall of meteors, and from moment to moment all to windward brushed them from clothes orhat with huryying hand. Thowon- der is that » fire did mot start somewhere on the South Side that evening. It is true that the current. of sparks did mot pass to any great extent over the frame buildings ncer the Armo- 13, but it was the merest accident that the fire wes not then communieated to_the South Side. No ons eeemed to fancy it wonld lesp the river, 2nd yet thero was great xesson for fearing it. Had it hapvened, the disaster of tha following ovening would Lave been.anticipated. The en- gines were far in tho rear and could hardly have Teached the scene of action in time todo any good. But it i3 probable that, bad the fire crossed then, the destruciion would not have been so b&es&. Vory littlo, if any, wonld have burned below Van Buren sireot, snd the build- ings in the rortheastern portion of the South Division might have bcnaa\'flfl. But it is use- lesato ite on such & subject. The firo did not cross, but extended northward on the West Sido till it reached the speco occupied by the railroad tracks under the visduct of Adams strect bridge, which was badly scorched. An ares of eighteen scres was burnt over, and the loss - was _ostimsted thet oveningat & million dollars. The coal heaps an the left bank ufihc fire, and throngh the early morning of Sunday, 2nd down to noon of that day, the steamers con~ tinued playing upon them. After the fire of Sundsy night, it was ques- tioned whether that which preceded it had been & blesaing in disguise or an upmitigated evil. Those who held to the latter opizion thought that, if the firemen had not been wearied by the 1abors of the previons evening, they would have crushed tho condegration at the outset. But that is bardly to be believed. The trouble with the firemen was not 8o much that they were” tired ns that thoy were badly handled, which would have been the case under any circum- stancea. On the other hand, but for the fire of Eaturday, that of Sunday would not have been checked at Van Buren and Clinton streets, but wonld havo worked up along the west bank of ioeats ss b as Vel rd might: SoncAgiog as bare a3 Wells, an considerin the infammable nature of tho buildings, Aave dono still grester injury. It would certainly havecut off all retreat from the South Side acroes Madicon, Randolph, and Lake street bridges, and from the north side seross Kinzie, and thus added incalculebly to the loss of life. THE STH OF OCTOBER, 1871. were destroyed ; on the Soath Side abont 8, including 1,600 atores; and in the Norih vision, 13,300, making & total of 17,450, On the West: $ide fi;.’sl) persons wera le homeloss; on the South Side over- 21,000, and on the No: Side over 74,000, making s total of about 99,03% On the South Side, north of Congress, there re- mained only Lind's Block, at tha cornet of Rsn- dolph and Markst streets; and on the North- Side, Afr. M. D. Ogden's House, a few buildings atthe eastern end of Kinzie street, and soms just South of Division, neer Halstad. The de- struction wes radical. There was a_remarkabla absence of ruine. Evi ing had been utterly consamed. Marble walls ‘melted nway, and the cellars of immensa blocks wers “too. large to hold what remained of the superstructures, On the North Side, the Water Works " building and the Water Towar were scorched, but stil ser- THE FIRE. At 1sst the revolving eeasons have brenght zround the anniversary of that day, more mera- ing trees, past pleasapt housessot farbackfrom | ground beneath their feet ofien furnished an obsioared. Its new era bogins with the 9thof v, thes s did, feels < that her own -] : imewith | Ebundant supply of materiel for tho manufac- tho street, sarronnded with gronnds smilicswith | EGeY PPN FRCTS a6 tho grest lume i i flowers and flashing with fountaina. There the | por merket of tho world. ~The piceries of tho Octobar, 1871, and the years of its gm@er;g ity greatly depended upon that of the Me- |Jibrary of the Histarical Society anda great | Northirest were tributary to her, and sho took all o numberod o the hour when it T be- [ OF 2800 ol wertumest, Medica College seam tobare found their st | 107 her own o tithea of thelr produce. Lum- h“‘:e S lbm“?:md' it plmrioe to b This charity, thus promptly azd generously | sbodes, and it was with a singular sense of in- ‘“:Q s dP:;m pidly heo fl‘:f mf:‘. dg amein “]i;ukm, and 1-,:“ trade ;:egmm nig ‘bestowsd, wes wisely and economically pdmin- | congruity that ano found that this guiet section “I’“b“:“"fim, was everything, and durability was ties. At un:‘n st this St twelso.month of | isterod. Complsints Wero "-?";f ‘_flmd’"?”m its ne w history, and on this memorial dny, ?:e,butfim:m"mm“qukflm ‘nothing *i8 wiser, nothing more instructive, mg,o Behmmef o .’Aid éadcmsty ":my s a% &iodsl of the city was boanded in its northeastern cor- | not a matter much cansidered, street after street ner by 5 colony of immense breweries. Tocross | was lined with wooden buildings, not with oaken in some ects, nothing is pleasanter than a0 & % et look bao fig«m ‘the proat disaster snd the pro- | worthy of imitution elsewhers, hopld eimilar Clark girezt was to become involved insxnet- [ bema and floorings, Bu¢ an, sgeregation of ! it nd infammable pine. g st e, e e | A1 08 Y9 Lt sond od and untlesn. Hore all was ¥rish ard | the first essays were made in tho chespest mate- thers all wns German. The sky of the New dfl:l fiwm‘g‘lfldfl‘ m““ l"i‘i"m'dim he e are ho it into marble, so hers :)chdl‘fld lol}‘a:cm dfi::ng?kym::::nu of the wgywn‘;kded in wood, until Euccess eec:ned o ‘This g‘lfl* p“‘ {Hn' mlt\'flpfl petusted in stone. conceded to the Garmans, aod thoy bad given u;geomifio L, g Iperlons of U ant o i1 isti There other cities iven the cavic authornties toit many of g:]‘: mmm&muh& ke e astabliah ro imite, which at tho tima of the their Tarner 70 begen on tho Sonth Side at the 00 Sunday afterncon concerts. At the portheasi- Twenty-second Etrect and ran to State, on Stato emn end of the Division was Linccin Park, tho | to Weg;-h, “fi“&?fi;m"m k, ‘&"‘31;‘; Vns by = = i Buren, ence enco an special pride of the inhabitants, and, to wome | & e th Brank. On (oo West Sida estont, of all Chicago. It waa approsched | ) (oot iq the territory south of Take, throngh an sbandoned cemstery, whoso unasted- | oacd of Fialsted to Madison, and east of Clinton for graves and leaning heedstons did not, how- | petween Madison and Van. On the North ever, incline to solemn and sober reflections Exi:}iu they covered all south of Ilinois strect wooded: one handred fest on each eide of thosewho et o stroll along the Paths, | ells and the stroets east of it, mearly or quite or besido the pleesant lakes, or upon tho 8andy | 1y (o Chicago avenzo. Small in extent as this ‘beach of the grest Iake whosa many-hued sur- | territory e it had been sécured with difiiculty, faco stretched fareastward, 48 ths North Divis- | and against the opposition of these who thought jon wasin point of popalationthe smallest, it was | moro of immediate profits than of future seca- > Py rity. One-half of the buildings within this ares s8isthe case withlittle communities, tho | Co7) op wood, As Lazarus sat st the gato of most patriotic. Itsdenizens werealwaysprompt | Dives, go decaying wooden ehsnties and tone- to maintzin the euperiority of that part of | ments, filled withthomost degraded and reciless the city. The amenity of ite climate, end ite mexglba;:: .‘fi‘i n{“,'i‘é’f.““‘”’ umdmme‘d:;:éz superiorits for residcnge purposes, wero themos | 88 g oon franted immense business blocks which they were nover weary of discussiog. They | or Jnrked in their rear. Coal aud” lumber vards looked downupon other Chicagoans es South | lined both Eanks of the river, and frames, Cerolinians didupon other Southerners, and | cither in patches or dotted around like they pointed prondly to their park, their Water- | ontinéls, ~and — always. Droserving, -4 i ‘been wmade since - | circumstances ever occur. Exoss o \0ha e Thess are things which mever gheuld, snd trey ely endnred, and perils gallantly met, ] : mnnu u"a ngreeabls in tll’m retrospact than st | never will be forgotten, bntla::: ::se that molh! the mamme: 3t they wers encountered. The griefs ever;ym mwcaedm‘ é:th :‘nyom o mawmrzh“ of the pa 7 become the p_rgflgoi the present. § the enngs‘,vm X:Ele ‘;m e o Now, too, itis possible to takes bester and \ day once eaw e e ey broader vie. ¥af the confisgration of last October that we will have only v andof itsr esnlis than was poesible for months gmwt.hu(mamty:gpopflnhun:gwcflm,ma‘. sfterithapy ensd. The smoke rolled sway from that advencement in culfure refinement H i which should accorapany it. theruined ci v lang before it ceased o b¥ad the ke £ TriE TR ] IXBEE it yae, in At et fi“m%fiifi,‘&é Chiesgo, at tho beginning of October, time hae eho ®n il not bo flillod. Bay | 1671, was o city whoso mpd erowh S0 ? men have); commerciel importan 5 :::;‘ed, :fim f-:l&mh:vebeen nbfain:d 'gev{finnot the world. meltmnuupos:,hmkfim that robably ey ‘e il be, it is possiblo to acrive | s-villsge on an unkmown ‘”‘;‘:“’m"“"‘m‘n == ut precise and ¢ lefinite conclusions concerming | rupc* m_‘“”‘“l;i“g m:'ndérim ool (et tho firo and what :ifQid. Thero was nocessarily | to By & city which beld Bmdey K5, 50070 0 muchrumance wri Een ont this gubject lest No- com-mv!m“flfimmmflm e vember and Docer sber there s no reason why { and wer'd of it. It tod ,mflim any chould be v tzen now wheat, ol Ml lmmber, anil othes pdnetoge 1 ‘But whils there 135 mnch to be exld of the fire | regions suxrounding it W mihosds, FoRTE which destroed, thero is z1uch more tobe ssid | in al direct, ione, mado o centeel patp of that energy © ihich has restored The old | of the West, Fiftyyeam 250 otifleres citybelongatotl 12 past. Wo get only visionary § tion wonld no,t hiave me& & ‘“."“;:sm n glimpees of it th xmgh xolling clonds of smoke. ;ioainmemmwuflfl-malmmw“m Tt livosonly in . phutogesphs. The new one, § in 1671 spresd te.tZOV Kuks, borne by the upper current of the air. 0 Oourt Hose, protected by tho open gronnd surrounding it, had been looked upon aa fire- proof, but after a hard contest, the wooden roof of the old portion canght fire, the watchmen were driven from the cupola by 2 o'clock, and it wasleft toits fate. The prisoners in the jail wero reloased when it was geen that they must otherwisoe perish. The minor offenders were Toft to tske care of themselves, and a faw, charged with more gerious crimes, were hand- cuffed and tsken off by the police. All the County Records were destroyed, and not an ef- fort was made to save them. The city offi s 5 4 =2 ¢ the icials tshich hasrisen Eie an exhalation to replsce it, § financial centres oy 2 8 city withe 0 means of comm from k o Bo P ks ¥ inwh 2 " Chi population | (wors g0 their lovely and secluded hozmes. s T ‘Ere limits chounded. | .. Sandzy ev , about a quarter after 9, ors |¥ere rmore prompt, and the Board of Public | gervation of the Assessor entirely, Therefors,. fstheanein wh' mh we should take tho grestest.d In187l, Chicagow - 135 ono side to another of the £8 zhon i u‘“‘% . Works saved a portion of its records. jod arx. ong 50,500 buildings, and THE WEST DIFISION, The law was constantly violated, wooden Little later, a firo broke ont in & barnnsedasa farhy mcmwl’qfl, Tho West Sidnbre had niot %3, adds ;9;!;090,00:’ to f.?e yrel:eding a}:gmf. cow-shed, In the rear of a house neer the corner of DeKoven and Jefferson streets and two short Dblocks north of Twelfth strect. The Sonth Branch was two-fifths of a mile distant, and Madison street nearly a mile.. DeKoven was a narrow street, lined ‘with wooden buildings and ulated alost exclusively by foreigners-Irish, and Bohemiang, It is & commonplace ‘manner for such a conflagration to begin, and does rot scem half so credible as the story which was told long fter the fire that it was the work of the International Society.. But tho re- spactability of a fire depends on “itself, and not its parents, and this one was great enough not to'be ashamed of itshumble ongin. It was Sunday evening, and numbers of neigh- bors wero up. Thoy mado no particalar effort to fight the fire, but thoee immediately east of it began to{fi:th&l up thoir valuables, while soma turned in the alarm. In about ten minutes an engine was on tho ground, but by the time it arrived there, a great change hiad taken place. ‘The fire, instezd of being confined to the dplnca ‘where it originated, had extended to the adjoin- ing sheds and buildings to the north and east, end already the swelling wind was carrying burn- ing brands along with it. While tho fremen wero fighting the fira in these luw—lyigg build- ings, they suddenly discovered that it had jump- ‘them, and that Batcham's planing mill, to the east of where they were, was in flames. - Other engines soon rezched the ground, but the torri- tory between Jefferson snd Clinton, for two ‘blocks north of DeKoven, wasalready in s bleze, and the fury of the fire increassd as its circum- ference wa3 enlerged, The firemen, finding it usolees to fight it in rear, loft their origiral posi- tions, and tirew themselves in the front of the advancing column, But no sooner had they made their connections and begun working, than the fr;f‘h'.inl heat drove them from their Ezosw, and -they retreated two or throe blocks, aving behind them here some hose and there an engine, It wasao retreab from Alascow,—a poren’ "‘,fi’ fight gone thrqugh within &5 man; ours, The tire, for g time, moved ncrthware in 6 parallel colqmns, between Jefferson and Clinton and Qlinon cnd_Canal, leaving elmoat untorcked ‘the district immediately plong the South Branch, and much of which Was esceed: ingly inflatamable, * It moved on from Ewisg to Polk, and from Polk tq Mather, sweeping over a territory eutirely built of wood 3nd swerming with life. House after house disgorged its sereaming gud frightened inmates, who, sngtch- ing up what they'could of their misgroble pos- i £0_poor and yet 8o precious, for they curried westwgrd, till they de) in what they fazcied to be s the engines toiled, and still tha {lswies advanced ; the former graduslly forming 1o the westwerd with the hope 'that tha fire, prevented from’ extending in'that direction, ‘wonla die out bétween the Sonth Branch and tha burnt district, commencing at Yan Buren strset. They did not ¢ven then dream of the gnasilnlxty of the fire crassing to thé Soutk Side. It had not dane &o the evening befors, and no, Jowonld then, ot thinkinfy that t b farther back and had lisd o fonger Fun. other tangible property, and the intangible erty in mgemhm%u of bankers and oth. mng:gt' stroyed would amount toat least ,000,000, which. deducted from 188,000,000, leaves am- estimated total loss of $153,000,000. T In the third place, Mr. Cotbdrt, in his History of the Fire, gives a vary detailed and elaborate cstimato of losses, footing up $290,000,000. The discrepancy between this and the ing . eStimates is, however, ounly apparent. M. Colbert sllows largely for consequental dame ages which must ba deducted from his Wegl . Thus he includes the sum of 388,000,000 for the d?recinfion of 80 per cent on real estate, He extendod west of Jefferson street, but had work- ed slowly backward east of Canil, among the Iumber and coal yards of that section, lu:n§ had again crossed the river near Taylor street, firing the tan-yard of the Chicago Hide and Leather Company. Thence it burned north till it reach- ed tho starting point of the earlier Sonth Side | fires, and east till it reached the open ground along Pacific avenue, which was the boun of the conflngration 2s far north as Harrison street. MONDAY MORNING. At 4 o'clock Monday morning the line of rain in tho South Division extended from below Har- rison northward to the main river, 5 distance of amile. To the eastward it had reached Dear- born street, baving disposed of the Michigan Bouthern Depot, tho Ogden and Bigelow Houses, both the Honore Blocks, Lombard and Rey- nolds Block, Farwell Hall, the Chamber of Com- merce and Court House, the Sherman, Briggs, and Tremont Hotels, Crosby’s and Hooley's Opers Houses, the Dearborn Thestre, and the Museum, and all the newspaper offices with the oxception of TrE TeiBuNs. McVicker's was the only theatra left, and the Palmer House tho only tirst-class hotel, Itwasthenhoped thatthat portion enst of Dearborn street would be saved. Everything east of there, which threatened dan- er, seemed to be disposed of. The walls of onore’s Block wera down, and the buildings acroes the way were untonched. The forca of TE TRIDUNE was still at work, though destitute | Boots, of ond weter. But the firo was still at \vmfi:s on Third and Fourth avenues, six or eight blogks to tho southward, and the water was gone. Soon the flames crossed State street and { 3, came sweeping northward, tsking cverything in the bueiness quarter that had been left by the first _sweop,~tho Palmer House, McVicker's Theatre, tho TRmUNE buildicg and whole acres of masgive stores filled with costly goods, In spite of the wind, tha fire worked south- | HoIF: & 5 ward, and in that quarter the citizens and fire- | Tapmiture of business Ofaois. . men made their last effort to stay its progress. | Manutactosies (stock, muchim ‘Thero were & couple of engines thero, but they |~ duct were powerless from = lack of water, and_resort was had to powder, Tha sonthern line of Hprrison, from ° Pacific avenme to State, was cue&fl!yw m‘.qhe&!: zud tha wooden bl Tothhasasnscs ings on tho two northern comers of State aed Harrison weee blawn o, 1€ betng Lo Iata o B e L s 3 gave anything north of there. The three-story 2,700,000 brick, just cast of the northeast corner, was then 3,100, disposed of, and soon sfter o small wooden building befween it and tha Mothodist Church, on the corner of Wabash gyenue, That clearing awey, aod the solid. walls of tho chrarch, formed o |an effectusl barrier o, the progress. of tho flames in that quarter., Bptween Wabash ave enue and the lake, even batter success was had, [ O and the fire waa partially stopped on Congress street, The east threa buildings were pratected by vacant ground and did, not, ignito, and, by 1] omn&l;y those on tho, corner of Wabash gy~ enue, the conflagration was fully checked. 2 THE, NORTH SIDE. - Shortly after’ 2 o'clack, and “while the Sher~ ez House snd tome other buildings in thgt guarier wero yet standing, the conflagration had sterted at several points on the North Side, ‘Thers was naturall; [ tbg'g::o le then. = i mlation, andin territorial ares, | were improved contrary to law, and the cupidity i e oot S . s | o B s o o o = - 5 = W, who in arn [ear the un- tanta with all the nocessaries of life, butit was | oo oarity which a strict enforcement of civie hardly looked upon 28 8 business partion of the | ryrglations might heve brought upon them. A city. Nearthe river there Were numbers of | men who mb'l\—cg a large kz;.}: for frume uild- roanufactori; hich gradually farcing ing was unsble tosce Wl 0 ehounld replaco i awaydis mh‘;u o5, :flnm n{ it which bygn'ngnm mfidmu&l allinnmm, e thongh by elling 7y retainin one he mennced the property was bunt aver was chiefly covered by mmsll FOCRE G DR (o cte Genorous to excess snd crowded buildings. Along the Nerth and | in giving, the citizens of Chicego often fonght South Branches wers coal and lumber yards, and | too againet even salutery measures, when here snd there the ungainly bulk of an, elevator | they apparently lessened their recolpts. 9 2 oo \s Sllod with | Even the grender edificon which adorned tho uplifted itzelf, There woro depd chief _thoronghfares ware, in_many instances, & flour, meats, park, exd pther produce. There d.el\zs'mx:in aa:x ‘snam.n\\aodren mofi,‘ur Toofs distilieries and packiog houses which inel- | covered with compositions, of whick tar was a iy i e e o in tr0 b ““‘m“sfii’”fi: Sieana hat o upes james Wi i '0-] ) branches, and cusod tham to offend tho smell &T_‘h mfim ‘}20"“?}, mfiu mjecg‘e!v.nl moet grievously. rom their fronts. 2 shu rarely guard- ) cks which were tho pride of oar poople, a0d |~ g o¢rered shrongh ail thesa divisions were im- | ed upper windows, end when they did, thoy wero coden structures whichrecalled the |, o, -Boases, ide of the city, | 8Dt ta‘be fiited into wooden window frames. ‘ - by T fhatriot, paca lowr | o0 echioakboases, tha psil T, | heide, they waro often bat vast skella of brick, | thiody fror 2 a repo tition of the celamity which | earlier dsys of Chicago. i!l*l:d‘m:“’ %0 Jom | tiongh not of the children who dwelt upon their | (2SS D7 WE0 IeC, L TR SRS Pl | etals and swampy, “bad bosn raised ap o that opper floars. Thero were eugine-houses far- | jo "'ifhg beams ywere fitted into holes cut in | ride. Thecth rr.vas the elow growth of years. § of 234,210, divid g ghsmasentis :;emmmlb of r.g:,eunmnmud clflexingnnmzaf_flm"r? %flfis’;fi lsbor of asingl gryesr. Last October there was | of which, haweser, in f.be.‘d. e . melancholy plarsure in pointing fo ruins dw,an§nm mp:m:. wmmw ey andtomiles of homseless streets. This October | its starting point on South ;M ool weheve afar] jweiier plessure in pointing to § ness Lad token pessescion Zfi Eparhnm i 5] edifices smn to lang lines of dwellinge. nheSantthvmnn_ncflho( m‘: ke this dista: 228 of fi1ne, too, theraisnoreasen mgmdu:;ymormgm:x&n_rfl fisfiupnzp ing intc 1=cy of thse errors which Were £0 pa!sh—eafis,‘.heughpnr!.emstdmc mflms&-. aye ar sgo. After such & disester, odaqubasl_:andmdng-_na.gnieg, Mors : gocijty demen e geepejyoct, enditis verysptio | idated ebnnties, used for a&rfin, mmu:h g fall pon tke~ Arang indsviduul. Itisnot eatis- | poorer class of etores, Al u'pm‘fim : fiodbvitn the v erdict that theze i8 mobody to | the western part of that im!;.u:imu 7 «bilame, and the s fau'its of long-established sys- thasuuwmme;;uubmm hstacs m:m e L -a‘ a0t tbe mmt::_::a ihe opers houses, and "8 fod * respc sibie, are luid at the doors = : 3 if‘i E'mflz C;ZQICZ 13lso ;;ousibln now to con- | thers were the more important gnbhé‘:ni!mii traa{the good _vescl 1tions which were made with | There stood, elmost gide by side, tho gigan the Jttlo prof rress : made in carrying them ont, | blo 4o 500 bt syw muc & hes been done to_preserve | the ehably a depreciation which we now know has not oc~ carred. also includes $10,000,000 on account. of the interruption of business ocoasioned by the fire. The amountis doubtless correct, dut the item dn:s&gnt findfi h:gnmmn el.;.'.f"“ of roporty destroyed. lncting these i fiialt}ghl is reduced to $192,000,000. Ho includes’ several legitimste items not thought of by the the Auditor. Although this estimate Waa. pre< paredat o time when all things were exaggerated, &nd thongh some of the figures have been ascertained to ba toa large, yet it is probably aa | near thetrath as any of calcalation that ;:n‘ been made. = E : The losses in detail were about 2s followa: g e erroneons judgments of | susceptible of pecfect drainage. Tthadallbesn | ;g wirn steamers of all sizes, and of the | ¢no party-walls, and 2a they burned through and lg i biend sl thi lsm:d paved. Containing all the large hotels, W5 | oy o rnrouoq mekes. The force which hsd | fell, they dragged the down with them, et tons, Lt neae pent e Hiissny ot V10 8 3 ichh SirRngers AW F . | aad'the fiames epread into tho adjoining build- ronduot of the c itis :ens of Chicago after the fire, +that partion of the town of which strang 377 1 charge of them had generally shown itself ef- | & thote wire, oidinances. bat- they Wero e e msesved, ot | the moet, and of which they carried awey the |20 80 L3 2 ookod to with confidence ead | i2gs: | Thoro wero ordinances, but they wors D o e ‘roverench and | most visid memorice. 1t was amizture of the {" 2P0 I Tl 10 ey crest feth n e water | Bere prr Hittosob ke, g xespect for Irw. While the wildest ramors fiRed | great 2nd the mean; aenccession of 16 MO |y grayn from tho fake, throvghatunnel | Any city byl ke Clicago musty i e, Laso 1 £he e, sod kil » 1l warozendy to belive say- | siling coniriote. A fot S BTG CUC fuhiel pamomed for e wmile beeeth He | IS E0% SRR o et whon no t2hing, they-retair el wnshated, their respest for | from tho etolely ToW of WS T T8 B UG bosom. A fow sesrs provioun $ho breatiog of |y wotchok. Tie peculiar googranlical posi- yperson &nd property. The palica wo Tifih ove. |8 weler main acroes & tion of Chicago inteasified the daugers grovwing ores ‘beng insuficient, thsy tomlledomn structures upon Tifh W¥C- 1,03 ot tho West Sila poerly materloss for | out of ite defectiveconstyuctios, | it 1ay upon lemented i oud ey pareed st |20 56U (0 BTSN el |l e e e, | ne s ey it come s, 2 E boitrying; seasop ¢ :succesding the fire Wi > < Tecgrrence of 8 e H Tro LaXe are generally wet, end hard- D b ant tiote, 3 it with mons pesce d quist | bomes of the dwellers around “““‘m‘”‘e’zh""‘“ua, Tmmense engines, constntly in oporation, =nd | £27E I8 e e oes f ety € gntheybadbe 3 during the week preceding it. | massive buildings, towering bigh ov 2 | whose total 20 wnjted faluro was laokod upo | Had n fire moved frozm east fo weat. Thoso from Ty met dimst = vith uashelen compomes | iood ane vl vad 2o Po D oo the queston, foced o water bruagh | the v oud sspesily U STt Sy it bt i lo, and whose eec % the city. Looking forw Wever, @ re- d dry, and befoze et thoy ad extract- & o ttsworla. et Ghicego couldboas groshin,| almostlevel with the sidewsl. Titlo by 1641 1o oseornone of tho not disteat futrre, steps hed | bRIGES witus e I NERe Moy S et e aringesith o boenin doing. ‘fthese xepima u‘_fh another dey Tflm_“:imimf‘ been faken for the ercction of supplemental | £5rfthom 35 dry oo tinder. | Tho business guar- i it B ho besi breglwater sud the ey " and | its protection from fire, Bat a mal S, andto it oub how sbuses which bad g:ub fifit‘:&nfie sido by 5 narror park, | 110 ineessing Fgmm?‘flg‘n fidfinafi i“fiflaflfi itaelf, and does not depend upon iginated fraw (fhe efforts of partisans to re- s ioole uitt | the great retums of business, Biven | men. 'The location of the business portion_ of I8 power, sné |waich, under ordinary circom- | aod, during the summer scedon, Jively with |\ otus to the erection of more zabstentisl | Ghicago, 2a well aa tho fmcaimess of tho iy, eces; woul | Bove mmpnmine% e Al Bt person weat souths sleng State strest, o hics = mfif&;fi;fi e | s ons secmsar mntorsanats flmt‘:fie}‘;fs‘ s> ab the it 1i i bty anipie idings shoula be where they are, et it isin- o ciioiont City Government, | foend it Lo fln‘;fi;":m‘]i’:‘;‘agm Sre-proof, pnd which was Jookod,upon as p | Bufiegs: s . folly of m meh of the legislation of the past gevirally ‘af ' ozo 208 |model of itskind. An immenso stons struc- | “ipgiheso wooden buildings, driod by south: b by the light of the fames of | thero giving pleco fo tho ore Pretontlons |, 1,3 srisen at (o sonthwest comer of Stete | westerly gales, lay on tho weak: sido of tho struc- B tan? _ | endthe widening of th wae ed needed no insuratce to rske its owners trating them at olf points between thoso ex- ngeehas elsacousod importan changesfa | peoplo o erect. Bub if b got off et #hOr | oony Orer messive pdifops of stono and | EERELRUNE Yuch B RRECIRE e U S e ets * locations «of fhecity. Whilo tho | cushfere, ar Clazk strect, and on suy of s S nsem | Leiaen And chen by thasiata ofthe o e fary oc ztosh far f120 pocsession of public | avenues, he soon found himeslt ina purely resi- 6.0f | 13 conrernsd. | Tho South Side his gained in ildi altodin mothing, yeb trade, com- | dence quarter. Wabeshard Kichigan avenues T that fhere will be no wooden buildings near tho lm,nflmg ;fi don foc & 1ime the placs it once | werz nnderstood to bedevoted fo other than | “ AW mas ‘salmetion and 3 in i}w aia@%‘_fgm%egngoothnm tonfirecagningtmxg Pemlfl- am( \ght scsorx nodetions in hitherto | business — purposes, end oy person | Chicageof the 1stof gptobé.r;fl,:lu&n flbxgfl Ch!ia gc%én,hxdfflry £3r8 hesn exposed ton -;d'aecfin a8, Returni og gradnally toitsold | who ettempted fo jnvade tham, hsdwnxgdfihmmml?;flf_ msl‘% o of destrictive fire.’ All “that was raquired w8 e e e R ano, much yoie- |0 start b stor, wms Jooked on |of whati hud dono and of whetls mestodo of | RO NG ortain’ cirommatanoss, Wi, Mnr,ina’ i certa in pomta on the West and Sonth | with disfevor by his neighbors, and was 2ssured :i—-e’:mnndmits pening of the canal, whish s ac’pg{d 3 We:m:fi_fl:ngi; :f"“-,fl"nmnloggg €5dce, which Will cgatinne’ to be sabordinate | that bis fll-dvised experiment would result in toy&wnpony?nimufini;\_mm“gd‘“ L i dry e Wm-“s‘dams".“ghsgm‘ f-a& fatlure. Mickicen svenne prided itself on its { of trauhle and poverty; :dla its é;_mi?cto 2 parsh “"“l"“mm mw:tmnsp"rhnwt, and & gale of wind ‘At the sema “tizzo fiamy acial 2ad other embar- | outleak upon the lake, 20d itsrows.of comfort- |18 term) d‘_d xw;fl ads s Boposee Tt | Stronk enough to carry ‘tho fire-brands across £ hast: grown o ot of the fire, which | oble and fine-looking buildings; Wabash avenuo “‘]‘gzfl 1% é’:}’xb%‘g o its chprehée, sad of | the Soath Brunch énd the river. On the Sthof e Sab poctiy o o4, 170t which waro atll | pon ifs clurches and ita trees. Tho lattar was | poooier 0 1 S00ie P00 E I naventt | October oy happened togother. gislstior has partly cay y 5 R - 2 3 i THE CONFLAGBATION. :mmmim encugk , to desery o & pussing mention. | especially devoted ta religious purposes, and the | cith the Feders] ccnsus, w?:?‘ :&b’.:gd%g Saturday eyening. Oct. 7. & &5p broko out 03 168 w0 831 ;g thavar mowed ackaonledement | ptrunges wad oalled uoun 10 adimlre it Aucses wvavnuds of people, and) TenmRRaro py E ¥IRE CROS TEE RIVER. The n‘s?nm ;ox;imnscsffme firo; outstripping the otker, had nearly resched VanBuren Street e g {aat smong them, zog L all s tha I eereeroeeestssetesmts '8, 8 €] east 0] ells sireot i ranc e atassmrssnstsiestones mone, dims soi weak of Btgto, Tulowad with sl the rapidg | OF tils amoiaL tha dbare of A ¢