Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1874, Page 1

VOLUME 28, DRY GOODS. ~AT THE POPULAR WOBTH SIDE LION STORE, 167 & 169 North Clark-st, CORNER ERIE, LOWEST PRICES YET REACHED, SPRGIAL BARGAINS THIS WEEXK. popes. All-Wool Cashmeres at 75¢. one Case of Diagonal Serges at 371-2¢, cheap 8t 821-2. g5pcs. Velour Imperatrice at 60c, well worth 87 1.2. Oze Case of Alpacas, new shades, 3C. “1%‘6 pes. Poplin Alpaces, all colors, 3t 40¢, 8 Great Bargain. BLACK DOUBLE-WARP AL. PACAS, of supcrior color and finish, sest brands 1mported, at 25¢, 30c¢, 350, 87 2c. 40¢c, 45¢, 80c. BLA PURE MOEAIR AND BRILLIANTINE, rilk finish and soth sides alike, 2t 50¢, 55¢, 82 1-2¢, 85¢, 70¢, 75¢, 87 1-2¢, $1.00. LYONS BLACK GROS GRAIN SILK, of the celebrated manufac- wres of Guinet, Bonnet, Pcnsoz_], Bellon, ete., at §$1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, 12, §2.25, $2.50, $3, warranted the best value found in the city. Our TRIMMING DEPARTMENT contains a superb line of every nov- elty in Jet Fringes, Beaded Passe- menterie, Loops and Tassels, Bull- jon and Worsted Ball Trimmings, BARGAINS IN LACES! REAL GUIPURE LACE at 385c, 40c, 50c, 60c, 85¢, 75¢, 87 1-2c, $1, §1.25, $1.50, $§1.75, §2, $2.25, $2.50. YAK LACE at 25¢, 37 1-2¢, 50c, 8sc, 75¢, 87 1-2c, $1, $1.25, $1.50, 51,75, $2. 61A’ll’o$ur Cottons and Housekeeping retailed at wholesale prices. ‘We ask an inspection of these goods, con- fident that quality and general style are not excelied by any house in the city. MARCUSE & ROMAN. Exposttion! SPEGTAL HOTIE, The Executive Committes of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition congratulate the citizens of Chicago and the Northwest on the unquali- fied success of the Second Anmual Exhibition, both as regards the exhi- bition itself and also the attendance, The Departments are mow complete and the display in all respects sur- passes that of anything of the kind ever seen in this country, o Ong Should Fail 1o Attend MIRRORS &c: STANTON & MITCHELL, AMANUFACTURERS OF PIER & MANTEL MIRRORS, WINDOW CORNICES, AND PICTURE FRAMES. Carvers and Gilders. 262 sState=-st. ¢ Chicanr Dailp CHICAGO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1874---SIXTEEN PAGES. FINANCIAL. 1 FURNITURE. o “THE STATE SavIngs Istitntion 80 & 82 LaSalle-st., CEICAGO. The Oldest and Largest Saving Bank in the Northwest. Pail Tp Capitel - - - $500,000 Strples Fand - - - 50,000 Deposits, Three and One-Half Millions. Business exclusively that of a Sav- ings Bank. . nterest paid on Deposits at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, com- pounded half-yearly. Seventeen years of successful bus- iness. Drafts in sums to suit on all prin- cipal cities in Europe. D.D, SPENCER, DR D. &8 SHITH, President. Vice-President. A D, GUILD, C. & BOLKLEY, Cashier. Asst. Cashier. SAVINGS Chartered by the Exctusively 105 CLARK-ST,, Higttodist Chureh Block. s 1 compound interes: oa deposits. . Passbooks feco: TSiancy aido paverted for otbers o Bond and Mort: e o amall sums 8¢ 10 por cont 1o erest; 00" cliargo to bsiract or legal axamination nf title. dor S0k Bbattactor Eé" X SCOVILLE, President. War. KELSEY REED, Cashicr. Notk—Depusiis made now draw Intorest trom the first of nest moath GROCERIES. GROCERIES! Buy your Groceries at Headquarters for Cash, and save 10 to 30 per cent On each article. My goods are se- lected with great care, and bought from FIRST HANDS, ior CASH, through which I am able to give bottom prices. ot St Lonis WhitsWintor Wheat Floar, $8.00 Choice Missouri White Winter, - - 7.0 The Celehrated Minnesota Pateat, 8,00 to 10,60 Choics Minnesota Spring, - - - 640 EVERY BARREL GUARANTEED. Depot for Imported and Clear Havana Cigars. C. H.SLACK, Whalesals &nd Retail Grocer, 109 MADISON-ST. PiANOS. ! Fumwe HALE & BRO HAVE REMOVED To their New Warerooms, 200,202,204, 208 - Randolph-st. ‘We have in stock the largest and finest variety of Furniture in the West. We are also sell- ing at very low prices. Our stock is not composed of Bank- rupt Goods, nor goods saved from the late fire. Call and in- .spect for yourselves. Dealers will find it to their advantage to call before buying. HALE & BRO. MANUFACTURERS, Wholesals &nd Retail Dealers IN ALL KINDS OF FORNITURE! EASHIONABLE E URNITURE. W. W, STRONG FURNITURE CO, 268 & 268 Wabash-av. NOTIONS, &e. REMOVAL. J. L HIRSH & G, Take pleasure in announcing to their friends end the public in geccral that they have re- moved to the new and spacious store, 212 East Madison-st., “Where they continue to offer special induce- ments in every line to close cash buyers. Special attention is cailed to their fine se- lections and large stocks of CORSETS, HOSIERY, GLGOVES, Bubreideries, Buches, Bells, Tiss, HALLETT, DAVIS & C0.'S PIANGCS. SEVENTY-FIVE firzt premiums award. ed for HEST PIANOS. 20,000 have been manafsctured and are| now in Franz Liszt, first of living Planists, eaya it ia the most admirablo instrument ever mads £~ These Pianos, both Grand and Spua: eau be socnin Chicago, in large numbe: with vaciets of other manufactures, at tho Piano and Organ Warerooms of W. W. KINBALL, Cor. State and Adams-sts, A large assortmont of new Pianoa xod Organ: AT, Perties wishing (o pay by installments can| be accommodated. REAL ESTATE. orth Side Residencas FOR SALK BY WIL. D. KERFOOT & CO., 85 East Washington-st. Parties desiring to purchase homes on the Eorth Side would Go well to_examine our lit. We are offering Special Bargains east of State-st. and south of Chicago-av. Alzo, @2 Deartorn.st., north ot Chicazo-av. Wehavealroa large hst of racant lots. WM. D. RFOOT & CO. 85 Eost Washington-st. IRNISHED DWELLING FOR SALE. Amastie-front dwelliag, completely farnished, on oae o thy i, for salo at g 0T & CO.. 61 Dearborn-st 0 HORGAN AR Tor 2 Dleazant beme, lllon.luhnnfl; Lo Drdfrrl;nlwn‘ 13) rayments, Jow faterest, and fare onls 10 czuta GEOLGE . CLARKE, Ageat, No. 11 Chamber of Commurce. THIL BIRGAN BY THE OVNER Yermon.ay, nexr Dovgl: 50132 Fi = o x glas-place, H0x13 feet. First- 4 Emprovéments gn ei:fer side. 1 Otis Block. ife-s: ROLLERS, &c. TEHE ORIGINAL HOTT ROLLER COMPOSITION, PRINTERS’ ROLLERS, 133 STATE-ST. G. B. MAIGNE, Mfg. efrion. ¢ per . Country orders LAUNDRY. , MUTNGCER'S LAUNDRY. 2LICES 156 Deasbornaa., 126 Michiganet., 199 Weet ABSOLUTE PROTECTION Against Fire. Citizens and Strangers £ro favited to call at tho offics of BROWN BROTHERS, Corner Clinton and Jackson-sts. At any time, and seo our ‘‘SPRINELERS” In actual operation. SEND FOR CIRCULARS. LAKE NAViGA r10 GOODRICH'S STEAMERS AL, For Tacine, Milwaukee, Shecboygan, Manito- woc, etc., daily (Sundays excepted) Dxm. 2" Saturday's boat con’tleave until § p.m. For Grand Haven, Muskegon, Traverse Cits, Mackinse, etc.. daily (Sundays excepted). For St. Joseph daily (Sunday excep:ed). Satnrday's Boat don't leare until 1 For Manistco and Ludington, Tucsday Thuraday.... For Gresn Bay aad Intermediate poris, Taesday and Friday.... For E:canaba and day and Thursda, "$5.00 Pa FRAGTIONAL CURRERCY IN EXCHANGE FOR Bils of N_aflggal Crrmeney, TRIBUNE OFFTICE. ckages HILLSIDE G0AL AND IRON CONPANT, OF PENNSYLVANIA ALL SIZES OF FRESHLY-MINED HARD COAL, Of the most superior grade, for country and city use, now on hend. 'wing to extensive sheds, we are enabled to sell Cosl at present prices, and insure de- livery of sume clean and drv, whon desired by purchaser, during the ensuing Winter. F. M. WHITEHOUSE, MINERS’ AGENT, Office, 19 Chamber of Commerce. -, ‘Indiana-st. Bridge Docks {Twenty-second-st. Bridge. FUORMERLY, BLARE, WHITEROUSE & 0. REMOVAL, REAL ESTATE CFFICE H. C. MOREY REMOYED TO Room & Reaper Block, Main Floor, No. 95 Clark-st. _MISCELLANEOUS. PLEASE REMEMBER That we can and will save moncy on Foather Dusters, Gnamois, Spoages, and Castily Svap, L st m-_u!yx.\"' CLAM BAKE., A Grand Clam_atd Oyster Bake this af-ernoon_sand eveniag s the ide House, north ond of Lake Shoro Drive. Genuine Sea Waed, .- elc. 5 SADDLEROCK SMITH. Abstracts of Title, Ps CRAWFORD C. SMITH, 94 LaSallo at. ST Ante-fire rates. TO RENT. R RENT. |BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY, and PRINTING furitshed promptly and PRINTERS.STATIONERS. &c. attair pnces by DE. W. TOIN IS, 104 & 1006 MADISON-§T. - &, CLQE{!ING. &c. FRIEND, TSTAMER, STRANGERS, Avail yourselves of the opportunity now of- fered you of examining our immense stock of Tall and Winter Over- coats, Gents' Suits, Silk Pockethandker- chiefs, and Mufflers. We claim for our Children’s Department a finer assortment than ever before shown by us. Boston Sqnare-Nealing CLOTHING HOUSE, 8. E. CORNER OF Clark and Madison-sts. HARVEY'S NOVELTIES Clothing and Frnishing Gogds, FOR FALL, are received, and the public are invited to cail and examine Specialties, s to be seen nowhere else. 06 & 98 Lake-st, _ JUST RECEIVING. SHOENFELD BROS. 101 & 103 North Clark-st,, CORNER INDIANA, ‘Will offer, on MONDAY, Sept. 31 500 pes. Colored Cashmees, 500 pes. fine Lupin's French Merinos, 300 pes. Empress Cloth, All of the newest shades and colors, which we have bolght alt BENKARD & HUT- TON’S large Auction Sale in New York City last week at 50 per cent less than actual cost of importation, and which we offer in the same proportion. 25,000 Yards Embroideries, IFrom 5¢ to 75¢ per yard, worth double. $25,000 WORTET LINEN GOCODS, From the Great Bankrupt Sale of Linens last week in New York City. SHOENFELD BROS. Qor. North Clark and Indiena-sts. STOVES. THEHE 187 4% “HANSARD C00K” The Bost Oven, ‘The Best Broiler, ‘The Best Toaster, The Best Anti-Clicker Grate, The Zfleatt Shalung and Dumping Arrange- ment, The Best Sifter, The Best Reservoir, and is The Best Cook Stove in the World. FOR SALE BY M.W.&F.LESTER, 304 State-st. Imllurlammfififi% Notice! ST WABASE-ATV. 1 beg respee'fally to annouzce to my patrons and the ladles generally, my roturn to the clty & o Taouihe, Guring whi 31 sizablo selection of 5O D1t the Fall 2nd Winter scasons. ry Pard Duvelty compatible witn American 7ast=s has been pro- cured, as weil as Now York modifird Paris sts raageinents havo also beea made in Karupe S shbiail receivo immediate advice of overy desiral thial may occur in styles during the s wiil forward tome Soliday and mid-wia imultaneously wita their appearince I (nat ity 7o invited (o view mr Paitern Bunnoets and H whach ehall be thown with pleasure at all times and with- out importunities to parchase, M., EMILLIE, o877 Wabash =aw. _WANTED. _ TO LAWYERS. A youtz attorncy of several sears’ practice in this city. with o-si rafezonces, wou:a 1ike *0 socure 0d.cu accom: modations with somo leading law Erm or lamzer. Could make bimsTlf valasble w any wellestabllshed lavger wantiag, Dot & clerk, biiten cncrzetic aad capible young sssistzoi. Addross O 7%, Tribaas otace. WANTED, Sitastien as Bookk-cper or Saleman by a jou: that thur)aghiy unders.ancs tan Fioar Kusizcss, 124 3 [o2d pabbin: trade, aud the role ‘cantrol ‘of 1w of the D rands in ths market; also, tas credit 3zd go.d. wiil of diferent mills. _Addres: 029, Tribans ottice. VT, =D Sttuation in offco 2% >alesmsd in ;umber yard, by s young ma3a ex{’:fl‘m“d in I‘I}la huu‘n:sl,".mne a Sl('.“?hkiu'a‘ml B Feting DrTan's Laterast Con'Be Barobase £ F el Trbule alicar = [ ter then beguu. SAD CALAMITY. Burning of a Large Cotten Mill in Fall River, Mass, Forty Young Girls Lose Their Lives and Eighty More or Less Injured. A Nomber Killed by Jumping from the Fifth-Story Windows. In Several Cases Two or Three Mem- bers of a Family Are Missing, The Operatives in the Upper Sto- ries Penned In by the Flames. They Refuse to Avail Themselves of Sev- E eral Fire-Escapcs. And, Rushing About Wildly, Are Over- come by Suffocation. History of the Co!ton IManufacturs 2t Fall River. Number and Character of the Opera- tives. . Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Fary River Mass., Sept. 19.—Again is New England called on to moom, in coucert with one of ber noble cities. Full River is bowed in sorrow. Fire ina busy mill, on the upper stors, crowded with operatives ; all chauco of escape cut off before the davger wes fully knowsn: death by suffocation, falling timbers, and from fright ; an awful holocaust, 13 the stors in brief of this mournful morning in the city's history. Sbortly Lefore 7 o'cluck this morning an slarm from Pleasant street brought the Fire Depariment to Granite Mill No. 1, owned by tho Grapite 3hlls Corporation, which was on fire in the unper spooling-room, at tho north end. A fresh breeze blew southward, helping the fearful flame along. Way up in the attics were a crowd of GIRLS AND LOYS, YET IN THEIR TEENS, totally unaware for u few moments of the disas- They bad arrived bright ava carly, a8 was their wont, greeting each other with the eame familiar nod and bappy-hearted smile 88 on other Saturday mornings iu months that aro past. They, the weary wmners of & week’s wages, camc with lighter heart for the thought that their cares would goon have a Lrief end in a Sabbatl's rest. Lit.do recked they of the close-coming desth, The busy looms sang their soug of in- dustry, and iu 18 refrain all thoughta savo idle chafling passed from mind. Scaice bad they be- gun their daily toil in carncet when a terrible cry startled them with paalyzing force, “ Fng shrieked through the room above the noise of looms in toues of mingled fear aud agony. The finst bush pow gave wey to wild alarm, and, as that wail of death smotc on tho appaited ems of those poor girls, the quictls- curled smoko floated thuckly upward, telling how true was that awful ery. Thea came a sceno too great in its awful fear to be deacrived in words. 1:s terriblencss can never be kuown gave to those who were its witnesses. In that awful craze of 1ind, conseyuent on the knowledge that all es- cspo was gone and desth must soon be met, the poor victims Lnow not what they did; tha: smothering, choking emuke, driving out the suwlight, lit only by fitful flashes of a death-tlume whirled in raven gusts upoa o frightful eceme. Prayers, eolbed oot from throats that grew more parched in the utterance of each sacred woid, were mingied with wild yells from maniacs from that hour, while hers and there s mute form showed oaly its life by the tremblings. Rushing to the singlo staircase they wero MET AND BEATEN BACK BY A LIVING MELL OF FIRE. Groping to their only window, the bare arms outstretched through the panes spoke for help as mo voice ever did before. Bhud- dering at the dizzy heigbt, - thov turned agam only to eeo their death. The bot blast drove them again to the windows, from where they lcaped downwarda only to rise no more. With the loud slarm from bells that always tell of terror went the news, and the brazen biaze from the metal tengues fouud convulsive echo in the heart of many = mother, to whom the news was & death-summons. ‘Ikey bastened to the sceae with haggard oyes, from which fell tears of doubt aud aespair; prees- ing forward, receiving no comfort from the rude throng that hurried aloug beside, and when at the mill they were but kept away from that grandlv awlul fire by curious crowds that seemed 5o thoroughly heartless and unpitying in their ignorancs, each stupid stare cutting, as the keenest knife-thrust, the grief-stricken questiover. Many found tieir fears without founaatioa. Pity it could not have been so for all. Yet the mangied corpse in whoze death went out toe life-light of many aa humble home was taken up as tenderly as only a moth- er's loving hands could do. Some arrived ere their caitd died; others came ONLY TO FIND A CUARLED CORPSE, and as the bodtes wero borag at iutervals to s peighboring mission chapel, loag lines of faces scanued the coriege. Ere the afternoon was over, most of the bodies weie recovered, and the fire was over. As davligat darkened tho crowds souzht their home: portais of #0 mauy of which were daricued by the cvents of thedav. ‘The dripping ruius, gray and black- ened along the upper walls, were s:ill soughs by some wlo came to gaze reain at the disaster, and when tho New England curfew tolled the hour of 9, darsncss had enveloped the d.emal walls and silentiy veiled the city and its grief. Up to alate hour this evesing it was known tha 21 were killed and 20 wounded. Several are yot reported miziag. [7othe Aewoziated Press.) DETAILED ACCOUNT. BostoN, Sept. 19.—The foliowing account of the fire in Fali River to-dav 1 taken from a dis- patch to the Bostca Journal : Mills Nos. 1 acd 2, of the Granite Works, had been ranning about twoaty minutes when tho operatives in No. 1 were siartled with s cry of fire and the escape of smoko from the fourth s.ory. In this, next to the upper flocr, was tiio mule-warp spinning depzrtment, and there were nearly 100 gizlsaz work unaer a male oversecr. On thie upper floor, the fifth, about thirty girls wero emploved, epocling and warping cotton. These wero the youngest of the opcratives. With the alarm the FLAMES SEEMED TO LEAP TO THIS ATTIC, coming f{rom the windows belo# and up’ tho grea: tower in ihe ccotre of the building, in which were ail the stairy commanicatiog each story. The fire canght ia tho mulegpin- ning-roow, in_the nombwest end of the mull, from friction in a mule-head, aad spreadiog, by mests of oil on tho floor aud abou! the machinery, with great quicknees, rushed toward t50 ceatre tower, the only means of e&cape for NUMBER us, those in the fourth and fifth stories, besides four fire-escapes, two on exch gable-end. geiting into the tower, the tlumes ran up toand turough the aingle evtrance to the fifth stury, then suringing to iho roof timbers, filled the two great rooms, 450290 fect, vith aense black smoke and flame. While the flames wera makiug such terrible headwar, the operatives BECAME FAIRLY WILD. The overscers taw there was To war possible to checis tho fire, and gave their eole atiention to thoso wiom they had at work. ‘lhey called to them to save themeelves, and pointed out ways of escape, priucipally Sre-ladders. Tho overseer of the spooling-room, who remained til neadly euffocated, siates that the scene in his room— aud it must have been woisen the room belos— cannot be devicted. _ Caildren ran about crying and beg S,vp.mu.-ly 2 ba saved, yes wrench- ing thewscives away when taken forcibly to the tower while yet there was xome chaace, or to the iron ladder that reached two of the senttle-win- «owy of the south end, opening upon the roof of tue baicony at tue head of the Twelfth strcet fire-ladders. It was imnoasible to get the great majority to take this wethad to savo their lives. Some wauted clotuy, others somot olse. As the the frightencd thom sway from these ladders, they RUSHED TO THE «t the Foutia gablie eud, acarly (J feet from the ground, but dared not jimp down. Cotton ropes were put ou: for them to «lide down by, but no sooner world s rope ba lowered than ihere was a ruzh for iv from below. Too many would take hold, when it wonld break, au ail clinging to it vouild come down in a Lrnch. Sumlar scenes were goinz on ju the mule spine inz-room. Fhe flames bad ascended rapidiy to the eutrance of the tower on the fourth tioor, cutting off their means of escape, but the op uves had two ladders of the south gable Girectly efora tue:n, and were ursed by tha ov. and ciiizens below to take tlhem. Some d: others rusted beadlong upon the balcony and dropped or threw themseives from tuo guaids. ‘there was ample tiwe for every one to have been saved hul the gurly taken the courso di- rected. T1he Superintendent. as soon as the alarm was given, 1ashed to_the upper story, and, with the #il pussible to rive ile. Wheu vided for escage in tie mill were rendcred unavailzble by Lieat, Hawee, and stavke, 1i10 peopie procured BEDS AND MATTR£SSES POR THE POOB UNFOBTU~ NATES TO JUMP UPOS. and many did turow themeelves from windows to, in almost every case, receive fatal or terrible injur.cs. The tiremen worked to kecp tho lames out of the sonth eud, whither mauy operatives nad fled. Laddery, long o8 at cotnmund, were nacd to rescue the giris, and it 18 tatd that four fire- men lost their lives wlule thus engaged. One fiiemau was Jowered from tue rool by brother firemen into the building, and remamed so lonz trying to drive girls forth that be had to be let 26 by these who held bis rope, dnven away by tha smoke, aud he was L MOEGUES AND HOSPITALS wero speedily improvired, the Mission Chapel being tasen Tor ibo latter, and ay fast as tie gitls r the windows of the mill, etretchers were 1cady to carry them to either Chapel or Central Station. At tho lat.er pluco twenty-five bedies wero soon lving, and otber unfortunates hud Leen taken to stativas or to homes. [ a nend ows the weans I L.cr of iustances bodies conld not bo recogmized iliey were 8o disligure grimed avd girt-covered. ln Miseion € were thore WIHOSE ECFFERINGS WERE INTENSE. cetor 1o the city was sul merent. It is not too Liga to place the pumber killed as forty, and the iujured st twice tant number. The iire was under control shortly before half- past 8. Then the entire roof Lad not fallen in, uor bad the walls crumbled it bolow the eaves of the notib side. The flames Lad been kept almost wiaolly out of tbe building south ot the tower, sud 60 & portion of the fourib and fifth floors was left. Tie roof nurthof the tower tell in, and to. & with it the to;sof the gable-end wall, a poution of the tifth floor and some of tho kida walls, crasbing through to the thitd stors. The carding and two weaviag floors remained intact. Tie Gramte Mills bave been for sometime ruuring on full time, and turn oat 5,000 picces of ptint-cicth per weei, and 1: is supposed thac a CONSIUERABLE AMOTUNT OF 8TOCK s rained either by fire or water oud smoke. A argo umount of machinery 18 also rendered use- less, principally, however, that in the two upper otories. Tho mosi excensive is sull goud, snd the engiues and boilers are uvinjured. Tl in- surance, it 18 iharefsre expected, will cover all Icas to the property. It is reported, however, toat the walls will bave to Le taken dowa, as the grauite of which the bui:ding wus coustiucied is cracked by heat. Work iv tue other wilis aas saspended, that ths operatives might assist in the rescae of their co-laborers. ‘L'wo ana three wembers of one family are in several iustances among tie now incowplete lists of killed, wound- ed, aud miss.ng. STATEMENT OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Julia Coifey siates that when she siest heord the aluri of lire, Leavy coluInus Of smoke viisi tarough tue syovl-t0om four. Tha crowd of little caildren surrounded tue overszer, and with him 1ushed for tho staiicase, but they were torced back by the tlames. Then all made fer the elevaicr, but 1t would not work. A: this juncture the leaping from tho windows com- menced. A umber of wen ia this room began B ug a lmg rope to let the opcr- s to the ground. Several wero Isnded in safely, wien it was buraed off twents-five feet from the groucd. Tho smoke had obecome s0 dengs that those who remained crowded to the windows for sir. Sowe, leaping Lead foremost, were killed. Others, sulfocated, feil back and perieted in tio flames. AID TENDERED. Telezrams bave bzen received from Go. Talbut aud the Mavors of Doston, Lawreuce, anJ otier pointe, offcring aseis tauce. A cen eummoued to thorouguly Investizaio the sad eatastrophe. ‘They wiil meet Menday, THE PROPERTY LOSY. The Grauit Mills were wcorporated in 1303 with a capital of $4,000,090, cad employed aboiz 410 malez and females 1n this—No. 1—mill. Insurance $430,000, distiibuted amorg Dorton, Providence, aud otlier Easiern compaiies, The insurance agents es.ato tue luss at €0 per cent of tho amouat, and that the valie of the portion of the mull vot turnt ing spe About 7 o'cluca this wormnpg an alarm of fire was soundod. bul ion coald put properly be understocd, con: ¥ Tae liremen Gia not reaca Granite M:ll No. 1, ou ‘Luclftih and Bea- ford streets, until the lames had made fearrul headwav, Finding themseives unabie to cope with the famcs, a secoud alarm waus strack, and tho remmnder of the departiéns were brougiss to the apot. I the meantimo the results bad become hearireading in the extieme, As far as can be learned under tho present exciiement and ter- moil. the fire ori ted a the tower i the fu: and @n actempt wis made to ex- i . Wwith pails of water, but ineffectu- aliy, During tuis endeavor a.aoor leadiu to the suvol-rooin, wl soush on tae tower rteir to b closed to keep the heip back nad prevent o P bat whea the flammas had galued ench recg:h that it was tosnd impossiblo to quench them, tho cicape of the giris hai been cus oif. “The trightencd and terrined cresinres, with the 1oaring Huzes on toe 1iwer statrcase, rsied in abody for the fire-cscaje. but the dense vol- ames of emoke that pourcd icto the roow, and the biting fame: thew to the northcast end of tha depar: »uica end, unfurtuu- acely, thers wers no means of excape. Slany, in toe meautuse, hal become suffo- cated.” Oikers, preferring death by faliing to the greund, sprung recl £ly {from the windowe, and wers picked up mangled, bleeaing, dead, ud dying. The excitoment was ter rible, everv mull, ncarly. emutying its con- teuts to swell the sympanizing crowd. Al the medical mew in the city were promptiy on band. AMattresses, wagons, eireichers, and all the parapherualia of the hosiital were prompily furmished. and the dead, and dying, and suffer- 1ng were aitended to. 1t is certain that vearis thirty or forty lives, pearly all girls, bave been lost, while the list of the wounded 18 probabl: ae great. The Granite Mills were incorparated in 193, acd Mill No. 1 kad 36,618 spiadles end 8,150 loome, aud employed 2903t 425 malo and female overatives, ‘The Dirccrors are Williara Masoa, J. P, Slats, Edmusd Caase. J. S, Lraytoa, and Iia L. Swi Tation seeins to prove tha: com, from b {mnlescads n charge of 3 Loy named Samual Toung. A3 souu 83 the ilazics were dizcovered by 1he lad, be ehricked out fice, and made his csaspe. Tho spinoers in the room tried to choas the spread of the Once flames with boxes and sticks, whi threads attached to the machines” ?:?::; ‘5\:2:: mado to subdue the fire, but inelectully, Aud whien 12 was at lust found necessary 1o sutiad the alarm, the flames had cathered mach stronsth that toey wero darting from the lower windoss. The upjer story or stiic, used as a spool- Toom, was at tho time occupied by sixty persons, 2ud tho firs: intimacion thoy received of danger was & cloud of dense, binding, and sailucatiag smoke that sweps up the stareese, and forced them to seex eafety in the northern section of the buiiding. A voung’ il named Katio Smith states that her Hist anuouncement of danger was ro- ceived by girls from the other end of the Toum rushiug to her, sirieking and ecrying, Many of them were 80 terror-stricken that” their limus bucame. almost uselosa, Some of the pirls were praying ana lameutin their situntion, wile others were 5o possess ith fears ibat they stood in mute agony, wa'ch- ing the Lrave couuct of one mao, who, rezard~ les3 of his uwa afusy, worked withi heroic ardor, aud, by meaus of a repe, landed on tne groun: 2 numbder of tie giris 1 vafety. Oue man, being completely cus off, wado his exit to tho roof by means of a scuttie, sni, d with & rope, lowered It over the roof aud to tho ground in 207, He staied that Lis comoavios who was d him, iind 1allen back, suTocated. Many of the girly became unconscious from {rizliz ere the flaes reached thea, and thongh the number of lost &t this writing 18 unkaown, it caunot out be great. Some leaped from the windowy. prefe:ring to bo crushed and imaimeod than burned, aud siricking, Leartreuding myhts that met the eya on all sides were agonizing. Tae wail.ng of motieis, brotbers, ang istors over their desd was terrisle to bear. —_— THE CITY OF FALL RIVER AND ITS INDUSTRIES. Special Disreich to The Chwago Trivune, Fart Lrves, Muss., Sept. 19.—This 1s, beyond question, tho reat cotton-manufacturing centre in the United States, Ten years ago it bheld an important porition 1 this branch of industry, fairly raukiog witt Lowell ard Lawrence in thia State, aad with Manchester 1o New Hampshire, —cities engaged n similar pursuits. Thess were then the leadiog places i thie Union where cotton was converted icto cloth, and as such their reputation was more or less extended, LOWELL AND LAWBENCE, howeser, by reascn of their representation, ia great measure, of the capital, and their consequent aseociation with the enterprise of Duston, wers altogeiher tho best koown, In New England, perasps in the country at large, they had scquired great renowa for the special busivess they were engaged in,—their names be- iz eminently suggestivo of calico, eheetings, and the various products into which the Ameri- can staple is wrought. OUTSTRIPPED, Bat, within the decade, Fall River ha3wholly outstrippedits competitors. Itnot ouly rivals, 1t far surpusses them. Uuaided by outride influ- eace, it has worked out its destiny,—achieved its position. To-day, etatistics show that this city has a greater number of cotton-spindles, repro- senta & larger amount of capital iuvested in the Lusivess, and manutactures more yards of cot- ton-cloth, than Lowell, Lawrence, and Manches- ter combined. THE SITUATION of Tall River, aud the vatural advantages it possexses, have couduced largely to ita pros- perity. A portof entryof Southeast Massachu- £otts, it stretches aloug the shore of Mount Iopo Bay, an arm of Narrngansett Bay, itself an in- let of tho Atlantic. The bay forms an excellont harbor,—deep, capacious,—wiiro vessels of the largest tounage find safe anchorage. This, of course, i very favorable to the business of the town,—giving it immediate commanication by water with tho seaports, esyecially with those parts of the country tributary to its trade. €otton is shipped here directly from New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston, and other Southern forts; and the immense quantities of coal necessary to kaep the ma- chinery renning can be iaid down muck. cheaper thaa at places farther inland. The hasbor is of great beoefit, also, in thipping the products of (ke mills, largely abrorbed by New York, Phila- delpbia, and other comuercial cities, YDRAULIC IOWEE. In addition to the advantages accruing from the barvor, Fali River hay sithin its lim:ts a re- imarkable Lydraulic power. Fhis is derived fiom o mail tream WhCnco the town takes its name. “IThio river hus it soutce in—is, in fact, the out lei of—a chain of- pouds lywg to the uorth and cast. Theso cover sn area of some 5,000 meres; have & lengih of about 11 miles, an sverngo breadth of three-quarcers of a wmile ; aud are supplied by never-1ailing spriugs. At the lower part, they form tno stream, or river. Tuis ig half a mile loug, vety parrow, and hasa fali of 108 feet during its course. At its begin- ning & strong dam has been built. This o per- fectly rezulaics the supply tuat the water- puser has been utilized the entire lenath of the river, the sides of which are 8o covered with manufactories that there 13 little space between. Tue river, which 1n rome places is only a few feet wide, bas a gramte Led, and 1s confined, i great part, Lotween high bauks of tue eamo material Tlis greatly adds to ita availadiley. Mills bave beon built directiy acrass tbe river, the wheels p'acod in ita bed, and the volume of water thus econ- vnucally used and easily coutrolled. 1 the carly hustory of the town, the water- Fower was of wecidedly moro consequeuce than itismow. Modesn arpliances, aud the needs arowiug out of larger scoje of actiun, have twown 1t somewnat ioto disuxe. Sicam, in many juszances, bas been added to it ; iu others, bas supplsuted 1t Bat, althongh tho river et b become of comparative insignidcsuce a8 a proneling force, its pure, tresh water, with that of the broad expsuse of ponds above, is of incalenlable vatue in the gencration of sieam. Frow tacm are furnished unfailing supplies, wwhich mechisnical genius converts into a moviug vower more poient than tust of Nature's be- utowal. BEGINNING OF THE COTTON-MAYUFACTURE. The nucleus of cotton-mauufaciaing bors dates Lack to Is13. Tacu, i what was, and what fur several years rewnained, o were village of a few Lundred inbauitauts, three siwall culig were s:arted, Batwecn 1520 0 companics were formad, —tho 1o} mezutime Laving more than douvied. the wuwber of cutton-zully bLad increassd to 2,031 spindles (about ns wany g il nuw Les), aad tie popu- . In 1860, thers were eleven miils, with a total of 192,620 apindles,—aaving #0 1ncorjorated capital of ,000. The pop- ula‘ion i that vear haa Lecome 13,240. Thus viul be seen taat wile, 1 a period of half-a-cen- tury, the lown bad steasily aud sarely grown, tk bad been in uo wise rowarkatle. Ly tiwe, liow eight, containin G-POINT in the bisiorv of the Alihough thea s poisi Of Lup0rlatics in MABUIACURDE PUDSiss, e but faint Lromse of its iuiore. Tuo 1uilx then in exwstence,—there wero barely half- 103 uow there are wore thau four times a5 aere owued maiuly by tue same persons (some of thern non-residents), who had for Tears enjoved, in groas dexree, » monopoly of tho business, They were. 100, 1n sowe renpecta, the outgrowth of other entoipr.ses, which lerge- 1y conteulled the town, and were purtly depend- cut on thoss for capital aud managonent. Lue, in 1859, 8 number of we, breaking away, in & mewsure, from tae conservatism of tue past, be- licving 'in tbo resources of the place aud sogacious of the fuure, icorporated themselves as the Umon MilkCompany. fuey represented a capital of £175.000, in enares o2 §1.000 each, and 1mmediately erected a smail mull, of about 15,000 sriudies. The time war propitious (cotion-marufaciuring, vouknow, wod 4t 1t beut during the Vizr), end tho euccees of the projoct was aimost unponnded. Tne Corar pany paid great dividends, and yet reived o largo sarplus-fund. out of which, in a few vears, they buuds_suother miil, twice the size of the onginal. The earaings of this Company, in proporcion 1o _the capical invested, bave been enormoin, They bave deciated 1o casb-divi- demis many times the amouot of taeir capital- st0ca; 10 fact, sOIL yeara they Lave paid out a8 it 25 L0 per cent semi-annuily. And the con- cern uwns property worta to-day fully 31,600, 090 ; ita w2ocs bawing a cash value of 26,000—it has beea sold a6 bigh au 3,000—a share. NEW ENTERFRISES. The remariable success of cucse mills excited See Sixtcenth Page.)