Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1874, Page 7

THE FIRE. {Centinued fram the Second Page.? 108. Tugo, Bolle & Bro., merchant tailors, 110, A. Goodkind, olgar and tobacco manufac- tory. 112, H. H. Wilkerson, morchant tailor. 114, M. Walah, wines and liquors. T, Braun, drupgist. TWELFTH STRERT. South side. 81, Hanchott & Cartor, livory stable. Goorgo Otls, votorinary surgeons 88, Ohas. MoOarthy, tallor. 80, Grierna & Kahl, saloon, 91, H. Roganaburg & 00, grocsr. 109, 111, L, O, Mecklo, wagon msnufsoturor. 118, F. Frasch, seloon. 115, John Hogan, ssloon. 117, Martin Crow, blacksmith, 110, H. Brinkworth, pork packer. 127, L. Kuornor, stooking and shirt manufac- turer. . 8, E. Oor. 0., R. I. & P. R. R, Frolght Depot. 8, W. Cor. Goss & Phillips, manufacturing eompany. TWELFTI STREET, (North side.) 49, Allaway & Larsen,paintors; Hard & Good- all, carpentera and bullders. 80-92. H. Willetts, carriages, &o. 86, J. P. Vickery, grocor. #1106, L. Mosk, lockswith, &o.; 8, ¥ Baldon, drossmaker. ° 1065¢. F. Leasard, shosmaker. 108, G. A. Young, meat maikot. 110. Mrs, 8. Johuson, restaurant, 112, J. It Sclunidt, jowoler; D, Barton, coal sad wood. 114, P, B, Orepoan, saloon, 118, J. Movonsingoer, barbor. 126. W. Wontzol, saloou. 128. W, Oldonburg, grocer. 1283¢. A. Goldman, confoctionery. 180, C. Flooberg, olznra and tobacco, 135, F, Miller, barbor. 188. J. Johnson, saloon. 140. Jacob Augob, tallor. 142, M. Gordow, snloon. 144, T. Novillo, carriage manufsotory. 146, R. Ryan, saloon, 148, M. J. Flovin, saloon. Corner, J. Lavwlor, saloon. worELa, Atlantic, sonthwoss corner Van Buren and Bhorman streets, Berg Houso, corner State and Harrlson stroets. Congrous Houae, No. 111 Micbigan avenuo, ‘Wabash Houso, Nos. 818 and 820 Wabash ave- Rue. 8t James, cornor Btate and Vau Buren streots. CHUROHES. Keholath B'oni Bholow, synagogue, 893 Wa- Bash avono. 403-5 Wabaah avenue, First Baptist Churoh. 499 to 499 Wabash avenuo, Kobilath Aunshe Maaralo, Jowieh synagogue. —— THE POST-OFFICE. ‘When the fire was stiil sovoral blocks distant, Jhio employoes of the Post-Oflea were dirsctod by Gon. MoArthur to make everything roady for oving ; and, whon it bocame apparent that tho ullding would burn, everything of value was laced in tho Government-wagons nnd talon to ho West Bide station, Not » dollar was lost. Kho stamps and stamped onvelopos, and the =c- pounts of the monay-order and ragistry depart- tmonta, woro placed in one wagon aud sent nnder ty guard to a placo of safely. It wag afier- ard ascortalned that ¢ THE VALUE OF THIS WAGON-LOAD* was 218,000, Many cases of stamped envel- »pes, which are sent to the Posimaaters in large moodon cagos, woro lett In tho old building and bumod. Thoir nominal value Is supposad to bo bout 100,000, but thoy aro all acconated for In tho books of the Dopartment at Wachington, d it will bo an easy thing to reliove Gou. cArthur from wesponsibility by an sct of in- Romuity, O MATL-MATTER WiS LOST, Even tho papor mails wero carried sway with ont succoss, so that It Is belioved not more an ono or two ont of wevoral hunderod nacks wero burned. The publlc will experioncs little Joconvenienca by the burning of the Post-Ofiice bullding. Bofore it was fairly on firo Gon, Mo- Arthur took mensures for the immediate wants pf the office; snd before the ovening wasovor ho had succoeded in LEABING THE DUILDING OF N. . JONORR the corner of Adame and Dearborn stroots, ho rosoued matla wora takon thero late in the svening, and carpontors Aot ab work to prepare For tho resumption of business Thursday morn- Jng. The building was constructed for hotel, and will be commodious and roomy for public bustnces, The ohoice will be regnrded » mowt Lizppy ono,ns the now Post-Ofilce is immodiately opposito the now Government Building. ——r SCENES AND INOIDENTS. The sccond great Chicago firo, as regards soencs and inoidents, was a very falr reproduc- tion of tho Grst. Thoro was the samo genural alarm and goneral holplessuess. Lvorybody ap- paared to agreo that our Fira Departmont was not alone & lamontabls, but also A DISORAGEFUL FAILURE. How much of justico there wos In this universal acousntion, time alono ecan ‘tell A groat fire Is like » great Datilo, Lv- erything ls glare, confusion, and oxcited rocrimination. The engines ropresont the dofensive artlllery, playing conselessly but ‘vainly againat the blood-red columua of firo, sa, house by bouse and streot by strest, the fatnl flamos advance upon whai ouce was so boautifu in ita atately architecturo. THE POLICEMEN roprosent the infantry of the lino, er, perhaps, wvoltigeurs, for the groatness of the catastrophe compels them to sontter far apart, and 80 they presont no very imposing aspest. The expross- ‘wagons, carts, truoks, and othor whooled convepances represent tho baggage-traing moving to the rear, as, losded down with housebold-furniture, they trundle gloowmily over tho respective bridgos, and through the crowded ntroets, which ara thronged with fugitives, half nstonlshed and half frightonod. Thess ropre- ®ont T ROUTED ARNY ; while the blazing ploces of wood, falling thickly dhrough the bewildoriog smoke, represent the bambsbells. Anybody who remembered the hot atmos- phere, fierce wind, and general destruction of our flrst grand disastor, felt s moral cortamty lost night that we wore again visited by tho drondful enomy o a form attorly boyond our ooutrol. People cast thelr eyos along the mag- nificent facades of our business-soction, glow- Ing ln the sinister light of tho contlagration, and wondered whothor nll those splondid struo- #uroa wero faredoomod to {nglorious ashes, The coumon expreselon was, It [utoo bad!l" but some ground thelr teoth sud blasphsmously ex~ elaimed, God muat have A BPITE AGAINGT US." ] Buch was the expresalon of one venorable goutloman, a4 he viewed tho oruol fumon lapping up the Adelpbi Thoatre with remoisoloss groadie nase. A prosoie man boside bim said, * Bhame, Gearge | 'tio the lumbor and the damned pralrie wind 1" But the chiof expression on the popu- Iur counteunncos was oue of ¢ UTTER DEJKCTION, This dlsaster could not be comprehendsd, It fooked like & lash from Henven, or from the place whiol may be oallod {ta antithosls, What ls tho use of a Fire Dopartmont at all, f thay cannat eavo Lhe city 7" was freoly asked, but very ruroly snswored. Ab each gop o the wall af buildings, panplo would exolaim, *'Thare 18 tho plae to stop it1" and, whou the femas awepl punt, the ory was, *All lulost]” Many poaple keps INQUINNG ¥OR GEN, HUTRIDAN, “TVhero was he P and why did lie not blow down half-a-dozen strests in the pathof the deat* And soms them anawered, * [ls la afrald o gab ng e Nines sitor bim aualy” THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1874 Tho Mayor was vory little inquired after; and, indoed, poor man ! he appeared to be TIE MOST DUMBYOUNDED OITIZEN In Chicngo last night, The writor met him on larrion strroot, near Third avenue, at 9 o'cloole, and gald, * Mr. Mayor, what do you think of the situation now 7 To which ho replied, “I think vory badly of it. I lavo telegraphed for nid in syory direction, but, evon now, the disnator is awful, and I cannot soe what wo are golng to do to obeck it.” Thon the old mnan took out hia handkorchiof and wiped his brow, looklng the vory ploture of puzzled dosolation, Boon afterward the reporter met MAUR SUERIDAN on Tourth avenuo. Tho Commissioner was filled with dust and dirt from hend to foot, and il eyos wora rad from tha ciuders.. “How doos it go, Mr, Bhondan? \hy don't you have somo buildings blown up?" Inquired the ro- portor, “Wo trled it,” ho replied, “but only succeodod in muking frosh bonfires, Thore is no u‘:sa of fighting fira with fire, g0 far as I can foe, = Then Tne Trmuoxz man proceoded on & lino of tnapoction around tho back of the fire. The vaeant lota hatwoon Clark stroet and the river woro crowdaed with NONDESGRIPT FUGITIVES, wlho spoke all the languages of Babol. The wrotched habltuos of the long lno of South Clark stroot dens tbat foll before tho flames formad & contingent by themsalves, and mado the air heavy with malodictiona on thelr avil for- tune. JBods rud bedding lay around in profu- sion. Old womon scolded ; young women cried pwd wruug thoir hands, Dables sorosmed in graud oborus. Exprossmon lushed up their Linsos and sworo. Groups of marauders asizod upon the whisky In tho salogna threatonod by tha flro, and drank to uatiety, Ths outskirts of tho disestor presentod oven A MORE REVOLTING BPXOTACLE than the disaster itself. 'k oast side of Bouth Clark atroet, from No, 589, & low restaurant, t6 Polk streot, was burned moro or loss. Then the flamos took & northonst- arly conrsio, sweeping tho oast mide of Fourth nvouno, from whore tho fire started, near the otl- faclory, down below Polk, which it had reached at 8 o'clock, The westalde of the stroot was burned clear to the boundary of the last-men- tioned thoroughfaroe. Tho roportor renched tho THEATRE OF THE OMIRINAL PIRE aftor nigbifall, and found tbere, fu front of No. 263 Fourth avonuo, sn excited group of poople, made up from difforont nationaltios. About forty paces north Iny tho remains of ou- gine No. 21, whioh was lost while doing good duty in the hands of tho colored fire company. A loquacious Irishwoman, numad Mrs, Dwyer, wlto rents the numbers 202, 264, and 260, from & Me. King, voluuteorsd s stalement of IOW THE FIRE ORIGINATED, on which no dopendenco can bo placed. Her atory was ns follows ¢ T waa ropairing tho housea that I rent, with my husband and o carpenter named Lyons, whon, golng ont into tho yard at 8 o'clook, I ssw & blaze in tho shed in rear of Treor's grocory- atare. Says I tomy husband, ‘Mike, the Jows have sot fire to that old shanty again.' Ho looked, and aaw the biazo tao, and agroed with me. Tho samo place waa sot on fire two weaks bofors, Tho paople who Lopt i wore Polish Jowa, and X hsve no doubt'that Ike Moer and his brothor-in-law knew somothing sbout the affair.” Reporter—What waa tho numbar of the house vou say the fire started in ? Mrs, Dwyer—No. 268, I think. Ths fire ran back onmy threa buildiugs, aud I'm ruinod. Wo live on Thirty-first stroet, but ront the house hera for $100 & month., Dy this time, quite a crowd of Germans, Poles, and Iriuh liad collocted, Tho Polish Jaws pro- teatod that they knew nothing of the conflagra- tion, and that Mre, Dwyor WAS VANRICATING, The Germans, however, were quite axolted, snd swora that “ the Pollaoks" wore the cause of the wholo affalr; wheroupon & gonoral sod fres fight onsued, in which half- dozen of both sldos were Lnooked down and in- Jured more or loss, Tho raporter found it im- possible to get any furthor information from the Dolligerents, but othor peoplo in the looality in- dorsed Bra. Dwyor's statement, and charged the Jown with the mischief. On Third avonuo tho flumes commenced the work of destruction from Nos. 202 on tho west, and 251 on tho onst side, and swopt with rewist~ loss fury on their disgooally northeasterly courae, until they renchad State stroot and Wa- Lush avouus. Tho fre, saon from tho douth, prosonted A TERRIFI0 APPEARANOE, although being out of the course of the wind, dentitute of tho iinmense display of sporks 1o bs aoon from the front of the flames. Of course overy stroet was blockaded with people, and tho sidowalks, south of Taylor street, wore burdenod with articlas of domentio ue to an extont that rendered anyaprogression, oxcept in tho streat, whore thore was constant dmuger of being tan over by excited borses, utterly imposaibles. Yot, strange to esy, our oitizens appearod to take things with much philosophy, avd could bardly bring thomeelves to think that fato had anothor scourge ltke that of 1871in store for them, All available placea were sagerly seized upon by caroloss sight-neers. On State stroet, just uorth of Van Buren, A BIED DEAIDE THE WALK waa crowded by boys and youny men, gezing upon the brilliaot ilumination, About 8 o'cloul the roof suddenly gave way, procipitating s dozen porsons to the ground beneath, a distance of 10 or 12 feet. Noono wera sorionsly Injured, Undor the pourlng rays of a hot sun, the roofs waro everywhero raisod to a hont of from 100 to 120 dogrees Fahrenbolt, and, under the rain of a eonstant shower of burning olnders, It did mot take long for NEDW VINES TO XINDLE in oll quaerters. Dlenty of water and carefu watehfulnoss on the part of the owners and oo- cuplerd of dwellings uuder the los of the firo, preventod many of these from developing into conlagrations; but, notwithstandiug all, new firos would duvolop, nud the efforts of the fire- men were constautly turued towards tho sup- prossion of these advances, but without avail. Every olevated woodon prominonco was sure to catob & burnlag sbiugle and commenoe to burn, evon boforo tho lower buildings botwoen it and the fire had beon ignited. Tho wagon of o rg-scavongor, moving along State streot with his wares, osught fire from a doscending toroh, and wae in Instant danger of total consumption; but hls ocotton ragu weras thrown to the pavemont by the bystanders and stampod out, thelr dispersal causlng grest mor- raw of the Boaveonger. TUE WIND, Persona atanding near the northern margin of the firo, foeling tho cool alr from the north suckod Into the vast, sosthing mass, thought the wind bad changod, and that tho farther prog- vous of tho flames [n that dircotlon would he checked. But it needed simpiy & glance nt tho drifting of the upper smolto to sos that thore was no chznge in the wind, But, at tho surface of the earth, the curronts of air were all towards one point,—the centre of the conflagration, THE HOMELKsE, Farly In the aftarncon tho army of the disin- horited took up tho llttlo remnant of their earth- ly goodu and marohed townrds some poiut out of the reach of the fire, Thouss living on Third aud Fourth avenues and State atract, very many of them, knew not whers Loy were to rest at night, Tho atroets prasonted, 1 all respeots, s most vivid ropresontation of the sounes on the famous 9tl of October. An oxproas wagon piled with honsshold gooda oaught fire from oindors, and (he goods had o ba thrown out to save the veliole, Dafors the resurt 40 guupowder there was » large amount of BIOWING-UP OF INDIVIDUALS. The Aldsrsses aud Wiy oficiali of A1l degrase ‘wore on the gronnd and prompt in the giving of advloo, and, if it was not proporly taken, tho tn. dividual advised was promptly bLlown up. Ald Campboll blow up tho Mayor, the Pollce Board, and Fire Dopartmont. The Mayor{s amd to iave blowsn up alarga oumbor of his advisers bofore Lo ordorod the blowing up of buildings in the track of tho fire. About s quartor-past 5 o'clock ENGINE Na, 21 oaught fira dirootly in front of the thros-story Lrick building No, 277 Fourth avenue, aud wes consumed {n & vory fow minutes. It was mannod by colored firomon, who wera at onoa transferred to othor engines in the vicinity, THE BORNE ON FOURTH AVENUE, in the vicinity of Hunrrison sud Polk atreets, about 0 o'clock, was ono that ontiroly bafllea suy attompt ab acourate domoription. Tho pso- plo wore a8 panic-siricken ns whon, on the Dth of Ootobor, threo yoara ago, thoy fled for thelr lives boforo the firo-flond, The sidowalks were yendered impassablo by the crowds which congregated from evory quarter, and the streots woro blocked by the furnituro which was trans- forred from every house in the vicinity, EPPRESAMEN AND HACRMEN roaped a rich harvest, and as usual took every opportunity to *bleed ® tho unfortunato porsons who, many of them for the sscond time within the past threo years, were renderod homoless and dostitute, Ashigh sa tweoty nnd tywentys five dollare was saked to tranefor a singlo fosd of furniture for a fow blocks, aud in moro than ono inatanco the exorbitant chargo was willing- 1y poid. Thera wore othors, howover, composed of that olasa of Individuals who have made this part of Ohicago s bye-word and a reproaoch for yoara past, who took tho onlamity s A MERX WATTER OY COURSK, ~—a little worso, pernaps, than a *pull,” but st & mattor to ba deult with In a philosophleal mapnor, “A thing thot csn't bo holped, you know; lot 1t rip,” sa & colored fomale of doubtful virtuo observed to & bystander, Beoros of housce of this charactor wore abandoned by thelr ln- matos without any attempt to remove elther thelr turniture or personal property, and in moro than one caso ooarao jokes were indulgedin as the flames angrily seized their proy. TUE BALOONS all round tho vicinity of the new burnt distriot roapod & buge barvest, They were thronged all evening with & thirsty and blaspbo- mons orowd, who vied with oach othor in wmbusing the Fire Department, discussing the causos of tho fire, and in * holst- Ing " into their stomachs the flery compounds for which the ealoons of tho district are &o famous, TIE NATURAL RESULT FOLLOWED, Inflamod by liquor, with no foar of Rehm's men in blue befora tholr eyos, the roughs had full sway, and fights and altercations abounded, At every cornor somoe peacoable citizen received tho *bounco,” and in soveral coses goneral fights followod. The majority of theso, how- over, wero promptly supprossed by tho bystand- ors, who formed themselves into ANATEUR VIOILANCE COMMITTEES snd did thelr ulmost to protoot both life and property. The scone on Btate sireot was of & similar de- soription, thongh if possible it was considerably intonsified. A thorough panic seomod to have aoized the entire popuiation, snd ovon in blooks far romoto from the actusl site of tho fire, ovory ono was on tho alort, aod prepora- tions for & basty flight wore rapidly made, Bedsteds and bedding, furniture and clothing, Baratoga trunke and the humbler, but perbaps not loss valuable, baggage of the “halp” were all piled en the sidowalke, and anxious bargaine wero made with the ghouls wearing oxpressmen's badges, who had gathered in soarch of thoir proy. In many Instancos theso Lmety preparations proved to nave boen premsture, aud later in tho evening the sidewalks were rolloved of thoir burdens snd comparative quiot reigned, During the progress of the firs tho scene on Btate atroot and Third and Fourth avenues por- trayed the wildest excitemont, THE COLOLED PEOFLE loaing controll of themsolves, aud sppearing perfectly hielplosa. Tho houses of ill-famo, located within the boundary of the fire, wore filled with pimps, loat- erd, and confidence-mon in search for plunder. As early as 7 o'olock in tho ovening tho firemen appoarod exhausted and uttorly unable to do anything, while the fire was making hoadwsy to- waxd tho Post-Oftico. At this hour DEPUTY-POSTMABTER S8QUIRES had his men and all tho wagons that could be socured in froat of the Post-Ofice, snd then bogan the work of romcving the mals and all tho valuable papers, ete., in the building, ‘While the flre wan progrossing quite s NUMIER OF ACOIDENTS oconrred on Fourth avenuo, A colored woman, while in the not of earrying down a bodstead, fell from the top to the bottom of ths stairs, aud was picked up with her leg broken. On Btato atreot tho pole of & wagon atruck a man on the head and opened his skull. Ho was carriod off, blesding profusely. At 527 Clark streot, just where the fire ended af that point, assloon and restaurant keeper hod ¥y hands and limbs badly burnt whilo in o act of removing goods from his store, On the cornor of Paok conrt and Wabash ave- nue the Fire Brigade done good Rervice, aad savad the extonslon of the fira at that quarter by gotting on the roof of the bullding snd cut- ting =zway the cornico, for which performanco the Brigado roceived the applause ar the arowd sasemblod. All along the boundary of the fite the arowds wore enormous, and TIHE LAKE STORR appeared a solld mass of human bologa. From &n oarly hour in the evening, North Olark,. Doar- born, and Wolla were crowded with vehicles fillod with furnituro and other goods which were ‘being conveyed to the remotost portion of the city for sntety. THE MIONIGAN AVENUY. JAX, About 0 o'clook BMichigan avenue, from Con- gress to Twollth street, became gorged with teams, presenting s sight not unlike that wit- neused on the morning of Oot, 9, 1871, Londs of honaohold furnituro on drays, truck-wagons, expross-wagons, and hand-carts, iight buggles and baoks londed with trunks, foot passengors with great bundles on tholr shoulders, filled the whole stroot, all moving southward, while tho oross Btroots were pouring a o¢on- tinuous stream into the mane, Tho gorge would move a dozen steps and thon come foa halt, and then start again sud oloss up sgainat an obatruction ; but good naturs prevailed all slong the whole line, andivths endall the teams got out of the ranga of tha fire. LAKE PARK wea early pre-empted by poor people who conld got no teams or who had not the moans of trans- portation, and this convonlent and amplo spaco presented s sorry sight of trunks, bundles, bonschold nutonsils, and clothing, with thelr dejooted propriotors ruefully watching the Mttle they bad saved, Thieves mado thelr ap- pesrance on thix ground and plundered here and thero, Boveral fights and one BROUTAL MURDEN, or attempted murder took place, At aboutd o'dlock & party of mon drove up to Dr, Cook's flouss on Michigan avanue in & buggy. Oueof them vooiferated in & manner thut startled soma twonty or thirty poople who were standing on the sldewalk: '"Ia there m dootor horo? Ie there & dootor hore? horo's » man bleoding to deuth,"—reforring bo to the third man whom thoy had with them, Tho poor safferor bimsel!, who waa ovidently much territiod, ropoated after them: *'I am blseding to desth, I'am blesding to doath!” in the most pltiuble tones. Bomo of those witnessing the wcone, ran inta Dy, Cook’s house Lo oall kim ont, and momo {nlo the houss of another physicisn neur by, Dr. Qook was prompily on haud, bus, in tholr annioty, the pariy had gons off In search of o ihird physolan, soing one having, in tha meantime, informed them that Dr, Cook was } bosom of aloo not to be found. It appoars that the wounded man was burned out, He carried mome of hia goods to Lnko Park. A thief endonvored to stesl some of tham, and being resiatod by thair owner, stabbod him with & daggor or bowie-knife, The poor man blod profusely, both from the wound and from the mouth. At last accounts tho thiof hiad escapod, How sorfous tho wound recoeived by his unfortunsate viotim wo Liave not been ablo to ascortaln, As in the grent fire of 1871, tho STRERTS AND AVENUES LEADING SOUTITWARD wore filled ¢l s Inte hour with fugilives and tholr effeots, going to the houses of friends aud soquaintances, and the sldewalks woro strown with farniture. The stroots wesh of Clark wors likowise chioked with plunder of every dosorip- tion, and many heart-rondlug scencs woro wit- nessod, In ono place four little children wore obsorved fast asloop on & matiross on the sidowalk, whils tho roar of the atroets was thun- dorlng sround thom. Tho steps and passages of the Lnke-Bhors Passenger Deopot ware filled with men, women, and children who had fled thither with thelr baggage as tho only sheltor availablo, THE ILLINOTS GENTRAL RATLROAD commenced runping their cara out of the dopot at 8 o'clook, snd sopn had it cloared of all roll- Ing stock, The Rock Island Railroad made an effort in the same diroction, but the danger was over wost of Clark stroct before much had boen accom- plishod, so the work was stopped. ‘The conl-yards opposite were well dongod with wator, and s corps of volunteors kopt the fonco wot. An army of peopls encamped on the vacant lot noar the United Btatos Bonded Waroe- house, £T. MARY'S OHUROIL One of the miracles of tho firo was tho saving of 8t. Mary's Catholic Churoh, &% the corner of ‘Wabash avonuo and Eldridge court. This edi- fico was In tho very ocontro of tho flames, and wad soveral times ablaze, bat, through tho dar- ing efforte of Mr. P. X Driscoll aud Mr. Albort Datch, alded by persons oo the stroot, the fire wag pus out every timo, and tho building event- ually oscapod through s froak of tho wind. OAMPING OUT. Coming down Clark strect st 11 o'clock ono could notice every vacant spaco full of pilesof honsehold furnituro of all kinds, with the familics lying around to guard them. It was sead and vory suggostivosight, but the night was warm, and, aside from the losses, thero was no real suffor~ ing. On the wost side of the firo on Clark the peo- pla weresitting or moving up and down quistly; but as 000 s ono reschod Van Buron, the omst and wost streets were full of overy kind of ve- Dbiclo full of goods, flecing to the West Bide. Here wero & dozen new oarringes hitched to- gethor and drawn by s alngle team, thoro a lino of hoavy frelght wagons and trucks,—the whole rominding one of tho groat firo of 1871, TS, G W. GAGE, Groat sympathy and interest was excited by the exposure of tho residenco of Goo. W. Gage, of the Grand Paoiflo, on Michigan svenuo, near Harrison street, for a time In the dircot line of the fire, though it happily cscaped. BMr. Qage lott for New Yorle yestorday morning. His wife 16 & sufforor from a rocent fracturo of tho hip. She was removed to tho residonco of W. I, Tuckor, on Prairie avenus, about 6 o'clock, en- duringthe transit bravoly, snd, hor physicisns pronounce, without injury. BMr. Gage's houso wag grently oxponed at the firo of 1871, and on that oconsion, aa on this, entirely joleaced of Jits contonts. Among tho Incldents of the fire deserves to be notod the fact that the guests of tho Grand Paciflc organized enrly in tho evening & coffce brigads, and sent to firemen and polico iv all parte of tha fleld forty gallons of hot coffeo and 1,000 sandwlchios. A NUMJZR OF ALDERMEN assombled at tho Council-Chamber at 8 o'clock, and romained in session till 11, to hoar reporte of the progress of the fire, and be ready to tnke any aotion tbat might be deomed nosessary. Thero wea nothing for them to do, however, A SINGULAR INOIDENT oconrred st tho cornor of Wabnsh svenuo and Eldridge court. A policoman, in nttempting to arrast o thief who was runuing away, boonme so excited that ho picked up s butoher-knife and lurled it aftor him. Juet then a young wan stopped in the way of ihe weapon, and the blado butied itselt in hia log, below the knea, sovaring an sriery, The young man fsintod from loss of blood, sad was removed to & place of saluty. THR COMMIBSIONAIREY distinguished thomsolves by the gratuitous help tnoy gave at tho firo yosterday, Thoy not only nasistod the fire department and eufferors, but aded many in moving their things, Thoy wore Leadod by thelr Bupetintondout, Mr. Van Hoven, nasistod by Capt. Fabor, and boing thoroughly drillod they were able to scb with promptooss and more vigor than if aeting undor desultory and aimloas purposes. They Qosorve thanks for their valusble ald inths timoof the greatest noad. — THE GROWD. Many porsons, on their way home to supper, stopped over, 58 thoy supposed for a short tiwe, to goe what promised to be more than an ordin- ary fire. Thoir oxpoctations wore so for fulflil- od thst the auppors were forgottan, and thoy folned to a large gathoring of poople residing in the nolghborhood of tho fire, As tha fire creps from the west to the esst side of Btate-stroot, aud pushed toward tho north with grost rapidity, the nows seemeod to be aproad among the paople of the Bouth Bido, and, in & short time THR AVENUPS WERE BLOOKED with mon, women, and ohildren, who menaged to koep from the horses' feo$ by some myateri- ous instinot that is reserved for useon such apocial occaslons, One of tho largest and wost futoresting of those oarly gathoriugs was at tho corner of Pook ocourt aud Wabash aveuue. Tor moro than an hour thoy stood passively by, aud saw ono building aiter another topple over in ruing. With tho suro and rosdy sonso of a cerowd, thoy understood, whaot Marshal Bonnor and his aids apparontly did not, that this wes QNE OF THE CRITICAL POINTE in the firo. No engines wore ou the spot, and the peoplo could do mothing but tall. Thelr comments would have done good to the Marshal it ho could have heard them. Thus, it way said, and very roasonably, that ono little etream effectively opplied hers would save millions of proporty, Bonner himuelf came alony and uaid, in s distraotod tono, that bhe would like to know who commanded the Fire Dapart- ment. Engines bud boon moved without his orders, and hiad not moved when he ordored } &0 tho Marabal was disposod to think that the com- mand had pessed from bis hands atthe vory moment when lus words ahould hase boen su~ premo, The crowd wea willlog to work, Al that was neodod to make use of thom was an orgauizing powor of some kind; and thi was not supplied. One buglo-blast would hsve raised 10,000 men for the sorvice of & compotent cominandor, As I wes, NODODY WAS EQUAL TO THE ¥MERORNOY, and the work was horo & litile and thore a littla, Some ontbuslustie youth rolled burrels of liquor out of Batchaldor's saloon ; aud a baud of seri- ous mou pulled down the mgn from a small briek building on the coraer of Wabash avenuo and Pook courtj and & mob, with an éys to the 1main chauoe, asaisted in guiting the elogantly- furniehed houso of Mr, E. G. Hall, ‘Through this and slmilar gatherings of apoo~ tators came THE UNFORTUNATES,— those who had not anything to futerpose betweon them aud the wkyabove. Oue mun dregged with him by one Lund a boy of porlups Gor?7 yoars, while his other arm was olasped sbout & alokly-looking womsn, who onrried aé her broast & baby not many weoks old, The Ight wea fouchlng, but It bad a comical uapeot, The busband aud fathor earriud in what nosinod bo bo & thiva hisod, bub was lu veadity dha louse, the Inat articlo of por- nonol proporty that ha possessed. It was sn old hatohot. Tho man was tirod and siok, o had loat falth in Providence, aud bolioved thoro was no oxtremity worso thau that to whioh bo bad boen roduced. 8o ho hustled hia way through the curlons throng which had gath- erod at thae atroot-cornors, in o savage, rockless mannor, ns mitch na to say to this or that man, “You arooruel; you have a hoart of stono, fow can you witness such sufforing and not weop ?" Ono man stood innocently in the way of tho rad-oyed martyr, and, when he was pushod rudely nside, turnod with angry words on hia lips to anawor, Inatantly the ragged hatchot was drawn from the blonso, Thon was murdor in tho oye of {ta owner, but tho lookers-on in- torforod, and in & short time tho orazy follow was pacified aud wont on his way, Thore woro MANY HOENES OF THIA KIND In which the sufferers woro the actors. One noor woman, whoso housa lay in the track of the flre, had gatborod all hor housohold goods on tho sidowalk, but was unable to get them takon to a place of safety. At last ebo burst into tours, and sbandoned hersolt to the ragings of dospair. One by ono sho sprend along in & row the wot our of fino crockery (which moy plonaantly bo suffered to have como down n hor family as on heirloom), and then, with tearful delibora- tion, she plantud tho heol of hor substantial boot on tho vital part of oach pieco. Then uho criod wgain, and shook her flst at the leaping flamos, as if to smy that she had spolled at Jenst ons delicate morsel that would othorwise have {allon to thom. It wae wondorful to sco the stolid good-humor with which THE COLORED PEOPLE boro thoir misfortuncs, Tho parta of Third and Fourth svenuos inoluded {n the burnt diatriot wora glvon over almost ontiroly to tho nogroes and disreputablo white people. Of tho latter, somothing will bo said furthor ou; our present oore is the nogroos. They soemod to Lave & po- culiar opdaptability of moeting such a calamity ss tho firo must have bosn to them, Not one of all that camo under the writor's sbsorvation was in toars, Home of them wora oven smillng, but in s hard, unsatisfaotory way, that forbads thoir protondod mirth from being contagions. The great mn- jority of them stood manfully by, looking at tholr smouldoring homes without ono word of vain rogrot or wild expreesion of grief, One negro woman, who stood alone, was ap- proacked by tho writer and asked about bher family and bhome, She hed lost everything, Tho body she carried in ber arms was tho youngest of five childron. The otlier four were with hor Lhusband, doing she know not what, Under these ciroumstances, most women would have sat down in tho dust and cried, Bhe folt Inclined to do so ovidontly, but did not, for some powor which sho had, and othors bad not, upheld hor. It was &o throngh- out tho colored quarters, Thoso poople have suf- fored much boforo, and in these timea nohopoof botter things bang out before thom. Now thoy know that tho worst has come and gono; and boforo them atretohes a futuro which may have in store happior days than they bhave dared to dream of. Ono offect of the fire was to draw from the down-town restaurants ALL THE GOLONED WAITERS, About 7 o'elock, when tho hungry men and women coma for a bite to oat, they could got uothing. Tom and Diok, and the other gentlo- mon whose faces thoy had boen acoustomed to look for as & part of the furniture in this or that place of resort, were wissing. Thoy had gono to Third and Fourth aveuues for thoir house- hold offcots ; and their porgonslity and genoral {mportsuce for tho firat time bocame known to ihe ordinary public. THE LATE OROWD was by far the mout boisterons, numbers boyond all comparison greator thun tho one whioh camo together beforo suppor. By 8 o'clogle it becams known in el parts of tho city that thore was a sight on tho Bouth Bide worth iooking at for the moro advantago of hav- ing its incidents to rolate in the futuro. Thore can bo no doubt that thoussnds of men came to soo just that thoy might say they had soonm. These aro tho bores bofore the fact, whose grent purposo In lite for the noxt twelvomonth will be to Instruot tho ignorant public about the Second Groat Chioago Flro. It i strlotly within tho bounds to say thad 150,000 rEOPLE were in the stroet by 8 o'clock. Deginning at the Custom Housa squure, where there was an exuollont opportunity for seoing, rnd stretch. ing awey down as far zs Van Burev streot, thero was & sarging moss of men. It was & woll conducted gathering, Thers was littlo speoch. Tho eyes were too busy drawing in faats for future use. Onco in o whilo n man whoss feelings had boon too long roprossod, would bronk forth with: *VWoll, nll I've got to say is, it's n d—d shamo,” **Yes, ita a d—d shame,” the bystancors would sny in chorus; and then everybody, having thus beon rolioved of o pavaing weight of griof, would re- lapue agaln into silonce. YILL PUDLISK HIM ON THE XIWSPAPERS TO- Monnow,"” said ono domonstrative irishman to & knot of compatriots. Evorybody know who was meant, and thero was & gonoral murmur of satisfaction at this direful threab. Tho raporter cautionsly withdrew on ono sido, lest ho wight bo made tho repository thero mnd then of Mr. Unkuown's proposed publication, and be oharged with shoving it * on™ to-morrow’s newnpaper. Mnr- shal Bounor would not havo been gratifled by tho opinicn of his ability beld in that company. Paseing svound trom tho Grand Pacifio, tho writer came 30 the disreputable stronghold of Cbicago, In tho moighborhood of Poll stroat and Fourth avouue. Tho tiro had spont itsell in this neighborbood, but nob untilit had swept sway, with a touch of flame, somo of the most noted rosorts of sin in thecity, Horo thare wore gathored togethor, on the wout aido of Dourtls avenue, HUNDREDS OF WICKED WOMEX, roprosentiug ell grades in the profession, from tho inistresa of tho most * fashionnble ™ place in the West to the poor inmuates of tho low brothels and the * protty * waitor-girl saloons, Thoss women saw in their misfortuncs o fuir provooutfon for o big tmo; and mapy of thom were toking it in the high- ost klnd of stylo, From tho open win- dows of Bome housos etvalus of mualo coold ba hieard rising sbove tho raitling and whoezlog of tho steam-engines; and now snd thon thoro would be on uprosrious burst of mer- rimont, that indiosted notbiug eo suroly as ua- limited champagop and fivo cigars, This was not the sound mind in & sound body, meoting disantor with & caurageons front; it was the vilo ruvolings of abandonod men and women on tho vory- bordera of thoir follow-oroaturos’ misory. On the steps of thoso housos, aud within tho parlors, though onsily visible from tho sirest, wore somo Of tho young mnon about town who Linve novor before proclaimod their bad ssyocls- tions In & public mannor, Tho contagion of the Lour iu this oave wes too muoh for them, and oll joined m the disgraceful merry-malking with a leartineus pud energy of mauner worihy of Letter pursuits. Dassing aloug to the cormner of Taylor street snd Fourth ayenuo, tho wiiter found THR RENPRLYOUS OF NOURS, Tlhoy wera kept bnck by tho polico from run- ning over the burut dlutriot, but thoro was s#0 much turbulonce, and pushing, and orowding, that the probubilitios seowod o be in tavor of an osly irruption of the entiro choice company throngh tho mow smouldor- ing ruing to the dotached bulldings whloh still hold kome yaluablo contentu, This orowd was not only bolsterous, but profaus and dranken, The mon tramplod on eack other with apparont Indifference to consaquunces, the rute baing thut s man must take mhal ke got, or Bght, Hers thme had bewm botr fud iy lappud and in, st (ho expenso of soms liboral but un- known lover of lils race, who seomed to beliove that {n this ko could suitably rocoguize his lu- dobtodnoss to Providenco for esoapo from & Bery furnnce soven times hiotter than mny known to Qod's early peoplo. Tho scencs woro ropotitfons of thoso which nre familiar onongh in tho violoity, Almost ovory- body about Taylor and Olark streots gots drunk, a8 & mattor of course, onco & weok ; and thia was o spoaial occsslon, and evorybody's benofit, On Clark stroot, not far from Twelfth, was the baro spot whore the fire commenced, sud from this point ono could look away to tho northesst for three-quarters of & mile. NOTIING BROKE THE PROSPHCT, The smoke cutlod up from tho surronnding ruins, but It was onrried away in eddics, becom- Ing reddor and lghitor as it moved from the spootator toward tho bright blazos in the north- enst. Horo thoro was & small vumbor of intor- osted mon,—hiatoriana ot the future,~who looked intently upon the vory boginning polnt, though it wes not ensy to distingulsh it from the woste that lay about. Hore, too, tho vain .ropetition, “It% a d—d shamo" was nncommonly frequent snd vigorous, Mon seomed to fool bard, and to sposk hard, all at once, catobing tholr broath aftorward with & dosp respiration that moant mischief to somebody or thing not montionod, but well romombored. It wes an ensy jnunt from this point to tho cornor of Btato and Van Buren atroets, opposito the Bt. James Hotel, whore, at 10 o'clook, somo- thing liko 2,000 psople wore hemmed in bya rope in the hands of self-coustituted policomen. "Thero was nothing to ece but the flamos shoot- ing from ono side to tho othor of tho strost, gnd the firomon working manfully agunst thom. low TIERE WAS S0ME SYATE, 3 and the result was the moking of good hoadway Ly tho mon. Tho crowd was passive, but nol opathetio, It stood and Jolned iu henrty con- gratulations, that the end bind at last come, Tha poople were glad thot it was not worse, yot they underatood vory cloarly that it was bad enough. At s late hour tho stracta in this neighborhood werae thronged with people ; but, whon it bacame ovidont to the most timid that the fire was undor control, they bogan slowly to disperse, and by 1 o'clook the atroets wore almost dosorted. —_— A LATE OBSERVER. THE PIGUT AT VAN BURKN §TREET, The line of Van Buron stroot was very well maintained by the Fire Depsrtment, eapocially aa that body was roinforced by onginea from Joliat, Aurora, Bloomington, Milwaukeo, and athar places, IT WS GENRRALLY PELT that it tho flames got below Van Buren stroot the chances of saving the bLusiness postion of tho oity were very slim, Fortuuately thoro re- malned sevoral gaps since the first firo, and thoue helped to kill the force of tho conflagra- tion ond brealk {ts strength, Tho housus on Btate etroet snd Wabash avonuo wore pratty fairly supplied with houo, which, being attachod to the hydrents, did good eervice from tho house- tops. Pochaps THE MOST MAGNIFICENT S1GUT of tha ealamity was the burning of the Michigan Avonue Hotel, whiok was run by John B. Drake aftor tho Qotober fire as the Tremont House, situated on the southoast cornar af HMichigan avonue and Congresa atroet. The firemen mado & bravo effort to save the build- mg, bub the volume of flame was tao strong, aud, at balf-past 11 o'dlook, the kotel was blazing from basomens to roof, The dromon then rallied on the srt gallery, just vorth of tho daomed structure, sud, aided by s *gap” In the street, Auccoeded in making goad their ataud up to 1 o'clock this morning. Tho hotel, howaver, blazed up in majestio fash- fon at 12:30 o'clock, and shot & column of flame, farger thau the talla of Afty comets into the clouds. Even In tho fire disnster there was nothing that approached this scone in aubimity, Tho whole city over, oven unto the West and Nosth Divisions, wos {llumined by the gigantic glare. Tho fire sto away at tho timboers for a considerable tima, when, suddonly, with & stu- pendoua orash, ROOF AND YLOORS CRUMILED and the ed flames, loaping above thom, seemod like bloody kunives, brandished by some savage victor, over the body of a victim. Tho walls soon followed euit, and, then, the flames began to woalon, while tho pooplo seomed to regogniza tho fact that the main portion of thoir beautirul but unfortunato city would bo saved. Tha carelossnces that always attends a calam- ity of great proportions waa fully manifestod Inst night aud this morning. TOE LAKE SHORE was coverod with porsons of both sexes, fast aslaep, whilo the terrific nproar of tho fire was raging within a few rods of them, and sparke end cindera fell sround and upon them in frightful showers, Tho area around the Ex- position Building was also orowded with aleop- era, and ovory doorway had its somnolent garrl- gon. This showed that somo Chicagoaus, at lenst, wore not going to be disturbed by what is called +* tha besom of destruction.” Great fears woro entortained that TIHE EXPOSITION BUILDING, with its valuable stook of pictures, ready for the exhibition of to-day, would be consumed, as for a long timo tho heavy wind bore n that di- rection. At midnight, however, tho wind ohauged, blowing almoat due enst, whik carried the inflnmmable fragments out Into the lake, whore they could do no barm. Tho pliotograph- ors wero around the bullding in crowds, some arguing that everything had botter bo romoved, and othors holding that it wos best to risk the valuables where thoy woro, Finally ell the portraits removad from tho huflding carly in the ovoning wore roturned, and tho exhibition will procoad a6 it nothing bed ooourrod, O! course thare wero opporinnitios for the DISPLAY OF COURAGR during such & momentous event, Among the many heroio acts porforned, one of thue bravest wss by Mr. P, &, Driscoll, who rescued two ladies at No. 270 Stato street, from a terrible doath, Tho ladios who were in the third story, found thomsolves, out away from tbo stairways by the fire, and ap- poarod atthe windows oalling for help. Mr, Driscoll immediately rushed up stairs, through smoke and flame, and auccseded in bringing the bowildorod women erfo to the sidewalk, whore thoy, womanlike, Tainted from pure gratitude, Mr. Drucoll was elightly scorohed during the porformanoa of bia brave déod. It will be amnzing if future reports do not rogord o vaet srvay of 1 RUN-OVER ACOIDENTS," for peoplo with horsos, a3 usnal, manifosted a high-toned Indifferenco as rogurded the lives and limba of pedestriane, Exprossmon wero amongst tho most brutal in this respect, and drove, at rockless spoed, through crowds of peopls who were unable to usothe sidowalks Bovoral of the Inttor broks through on Olark and State stroots, dropping the people who over-weighted thom, & cousidorable distanco, but nothing of & fatal charactor, from this olass of accidents, waa 18- ported up to a lato bour this morning, ‘the stampede of the domi-monds from Fourth ave- nue would have overjoyed tho hearta of reform- ora, could thoy hava witnessod the hurried exo- dus. Hospitality is, howovor, not coufined to any ona ¢lasa of peopls, and tho * soilad doves ™ who wore burnod out on the east side of the thoronghfare, found sholtor with thelr ¢ birds of & fouthor " on tho other sido thoreof. DATWKEN § AND 7 0'OLOCK the oeus from tho top of the old Soandlnavian Hotol on Fourth avonue was grand whwost be- soription, ‘The space betweon Clark and Stato satroots and south of Polk, was ono surgiug arss of flames, The colored Methodist Oburol on Fourih avenue, and the Gennan Mothodish Ohurch on the coruer of Third svenus and Fojk atreet, ware bolh sunding up their tary tongues tar wbove ths other bulldings, ahd the rosr was Nks fbs euwrglugs of e woumlt rocky const in m torm. A vory Lrong attempt was modo by the firoman af, tiye * corner of Third avenuo and Polk streot to atay the flamen from tholr northwest progress, Twg bulldings on tho south ‘alde of Polk had hoep - blown up, and the Gorman Oburch was also on firo on the roof. The wator wag kopt flowing frooly, und tho mon worked liko domons wgeq to tho hot rogions, but tno flatnes camo op . ond on, and prosently tho covoted pofnt wag Riven up to tho common rutn, while tho firomon botook themsolves to position still in frout of tho red foo. 3 — c A GREAT FIGHT ocourrod al Hnrrison streot, where the flames oncountered for the firat timea continuons brick wall. Bouth of Harriwon stroot, nlong Wabash - avenuo and Btato street, the woodon buildings ' wore {n a majority, and thers woomod to bono ground on which to stand and make o dotorminod fight. But at Harrison stroot tho case was diffore ont, and there was something Lo work for, - A - tuls timo the firo was confined boe twoon Wabash avenue and Stato atreob; {t abandoned the west side of Btate streot, snd md‘.m thon crossed Wabnsh avouus to the oag A BOLID PRONT OF BRICK faced the flamaos ta the northward et Horrlson | straot. On ono cornor stood the Dout-Oftico, . formerly the Wabasl Avenuo Methodist Church, .., the southorn ofroutt of that point of the great : fire of 1871; on tho Stata strcot augle wes & large, firo-brick building, 60x180 feot, fiva storos high, occupled by L, 0. Olaso & Co., P. Q'Nelll, * and othors, The only break to the wall of brick was the alloy In the rear of the Post-oflica. Here | was & chanco, the firat thut had offered, toatay the ¢ northward mnrch of the conflagaration, Tha Fira Marsbal eaw this and mnde tho mostof it, Ho ! masaced his forces on Harrison street, and all that human power waa czpablo of was dono to chook the fire thero, But the Firo Marshal could- ot wipa out tho ugly faot that tho south lina of * Harrlsou was wholly mado up of woodon build- ings. The roadwsy woe crowded with enginos, u dozen stoamern wore g PLATING ON TIE TTNDER-BOXES i in the valn hopo of subduing tho intonulty of tho heat, no that tha brick buildings opposite * might bo eaved. All this proved to bo la- ' bor lost. The bLeat was not subdnod ' in any noticenblo degree, but soon bo- : camo 50 awtul that the firemon wero driven away and compolled to abandon what hsd seomed tobo 8 gaod stratogio point of dofongo- Firss one of tho tnrrots ou the top of the Pout-OMce caught fire and burnod ilsclf out, down to the stone work, A minutoor two later, tho Stato - sitreot brick bullding had sucoumbed at tho cor- nico, and it was burned with gront rapidity. Tho'' Post-Offica wau not long in following, and thns | tho strugglo at Harrlson streot wont for nothing, Iron shutters on tho Chase building would have been of great value in saving tho east lino of * Btato streot from further dostruction. At bialf-post 8 o'clook the Pout-Offico was on- * veloped lu flames. An unoccupied building stood noxt door to tho north, and this wont vexry quickly, A vacant Jut of about 50 feot separated this building from the storo of Bigge, Spencer & Co., but the hent was so groat that tho biank wall of tho latter bullding ecomed to boat through and sot fire to the intorior. ANOTHER GREAT POIST 8 was lost at tho cornor of Wabash savenme and Congroas straot, by tho neglect of tho Fire Da- partment to use their axes and hooks in puliing down the one-story wooden sholl occupica by | Ponnoyer, Shaw & Co. 88 & caminge ropository. A vacant lot of 50 feat froninge noparated the wooden eholl from tho ! burning building of Biggs, Sponcor’ & Co., and there was amplo timo to mako kindls | Ing-wood of the formor, and reduco its com- . bustible qualitien by loveling It to the ground. - Bnt thero scomed to be no one to dircct tha operstion, and the flames in time Inpped up the dry boards and shingles, dooming to destruction the Adelphl Thoatre, which stood across . Con- gresa utroot. The Adolphi roof csught Dre and burned alowly, but no stream waa high enough to ronch ¢, and {t took its time to burn. AS about 20 minutes past 9 o'clock : THX ADELTHI WAS HOPLESSLY 1N FLAMNES, and thus Frank Aikon's unlucky veuture, and® Loounard Grovor's happy hit, was wiped out of | oxistenco. A fortunate thing for the proporty on Stats street was the fact thata frontago of about 150 foct on tho northenat cornor of Van Buren atraah waa wholly unocoupied. The burning of tho St. James Hotel, & largo brick building on the oppo- sito corner, must has inovjtably communioated . with any bullding wh wo0od on the onst eide of the stroot. As it wns, thu oanrost building waa that of 0. 0, Holton & Oo,, furniture deal~ ors, which was 80 far away that it was saved, nnd the ravagos of thoe fire on tho anat lino of Btate slroot were chacked at this point. e A CIRCUIT OF THE FIRE. An bour before nightfall u circuit of the fire oould not bo mnde without difficulty nod peril. Every thoroughfare was crowdod with men, womon, and childron, and unmanagoablo horsos, A fow policemen tried o clonrpassage-ways, but constantly oawme in contact with the rotranting burnt-ous throngs, and thousands of sager alght- goors from other divinions of thocity, Ho donso. wos tho thyong on Clark stroot fust nouth of the Grand Pacific Hotel, that it scomed almost uso- fons to attompt to force n way southwsrd, Yob* the result sttnined componuated for the offort, Noar Vao Buren street, on Clark, o stonmor was stationed. The terrible hum bissed foreh from it rondored tho lamentations of TIE DESOLATE FOPULATION nandibie, Looking out upon the stroots from the windows of the Grand Pacific were Lundrods of ladies and gentlemon of luxury end elogence. Had thoy beon burned out no great suiforing would have resultod. But where could the poor paople ga? No filendly doors woro oposn te thom. Prosaing further south on Clark to Harrison, the oxaitiug scones beeame moro numerons, The denizens of thu lacality wore demoralized. Panie. stvicken, they somod uot to know whethor etand or fly. Tho Jewish portion especially. wers oxcited, Becond-hand and ready-mode olothing wae gotng off with startling rapidity. Evory concelvablo vohlclo was pressed into sor- vico, But one clasa swovrod uudisturbod. Ont of tholr polluted nbodos on Third and Fourth avenuos, the hot flamas bud scorched ¢he absudoned inmates; yob, with the flory flenf bhisslng in their ve-y ears, scora of TRRAL STAMELESS WOMEX doflantly plied their vountion, 7T'hey wers slmply byrned out of hiouse, for home thoy nover bad. Turning from theso brazon, palut-bedaubod facos to othors in tho street, it was cloarly die- cerniblo how groatly the poor had suffored. ‘Thus far tho coutiagration had licked up only thie humblest abodos ou the Sonth 8idd, Many of the Inhabitants could, und did place all thelr housohold offests in @ single oxpress wagong and, galloplug to the Weat or North Sldos, tholr facen blanched with terror, buudredu of thase tamilios flod, In ono of thoss was n old womau, vorglug on 80, who, a8 the rade wagon sped rapldly over the pavoment, cronchad wpon - the load, tranafixed with fright and apparontly {neenaible to everything transpiring. Amid tho confauion thero were . 6OME NOTABLY OALM INDIVIDUALS, The telegraph repairors workad uu steadily ax on the most ordinary ocousion. The Wentarn Union Company's wircs being on the east side ot the atrect whava tho bnildings had gone'. down, wera scorched badly; so whils the fire waw yot dangorously near, the entore prising manegors were tranaferring the wirea aoross tha stroot, and hurriedly ptanting a fow poles, maintained unbroken cuiomuaiontion with tho world enst of ua, Reaching Twalfth stroet, It saomed possibie to got round sonthoast of the fite. Tha wind way uwooping north-northeast, Twelith, belug the mont northierly passsule sbreot, was densaly vrowded, Indiferont VRLLOWH, WITH KONK MONRY TITAN DNAIND, wera ridiug around pudte tiieeh Fuped “a 3 | | 2 T - REIATE oR