The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1871, Page 4

4 CHIC AGO. No Renewal of the Iire---The City Tranquil---Sheridan in Control. AMONG THE RUINS. A Smouldering City—Districts Without a Wall Standing—The Bodies in the Ruins— Searching for the Dead—The B.unds of the Firc--- Brick vs. Stone. SEVENTY BODIES IN THE MORGUE. An Awtlal Spectacle—Heartbroken Crowds Flocking to Iden- tify the Gorpscs. Business Reviving—Newspapers Re- appearing—Chicago Hopefal— Creditors Mercifai, Relief Coming from All Quarters, “Gud Bless the Noble-Hearted People of the World.” CHICAGO, Oct, 12-11 A. M. ‘There was No renewal of the fires last night, and nothing irred to disturb the city. General Sheriden has complete control, and cont- Gence is fully restored. At a@ Meeting of the various committees from other cities last eventog the /ollowing AYPEAL TO COMMERCIAL MEN AND CAPITALISTS tod States was adopted:— urvey of the unparalleled cala- erwhelming en careful si Amcricaa peopie, to nour of ial. ‘Their Extend to them a generous ibe- es whd @Xxteus ons, and the ees of money, so thal the ptetures in the Opera House. gallery were destroved was toorrect, Mr. Atken, superintendent of the gallery, was enabledto remove its entire contents, together with many pictures in Mr. Crosby's private A GAPRITEER OF THR UNITED STATRA, To give @ list of all the cities, towns and villages im the country that, without waiting for a reanest, have forwarded bountiful supplies of provisions, biankets aad clothing to sufferers it would be neees- sary to furnish a complete gazeticer of tne United States, THR WHOLESALE Gnocans held a meeting this afternoon and agreed to ask no compromise with creditors, but only ask for time, ‘They aro deiermined (© pay all their accounts ia fall, it has been ascertained from oMictal reports that FIFTY MILLION FRET OF LUMBER were destroyed, leaving 24,000,000 (cet etitl on hand, One bundred thousand dollars were subscribed to- day towara , REBUILDING THE CAMBER OF COMMEROE On the site of its ruins, and work upon & will be commenced wt once. Wholesaic dealers in pro- vistons, our and lumber refuse to take advantage of tho situation, but continue to SELL “MRIR GOODS AT THR OLD. PRICRS. The same is true of coal dealers who have any stock leit, Temrorary buildings are being erected m every direation, and by Saturday night there will be HUNDREDS, OF HOUSES ready for occupation. There is a marked change In the spirit of the people. The first fecling of utter Prostration has given way to one of confidence. ‘The burned district ts no longer an object of mter- est, save #8 to the situation of sites for rebuilding. very man who can find a shea in which to resume has begun business agata, Country DEBTORS ARE REMITTING THEIR CLANMS and the insurance solvency becomes more and More promising. Business will be resumed as usual at the live stock yard to-morrow. General Sheritan makes @ request of the people of the country to dissuade tuose who are anx.ous to visit Chicago trom MERE CURIOSITY from coming. Thousands of this class are here how, without shelter oF a¢commodation, and they Must be fed and cared for the same as the sufferers. CARING FOR THE TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. A numpet of telegraph operators in this city wero wurned out of house and home, ‘ihe operators of St. Lons have forwarded suppttes of clothing and provisions, aud General Stager, of the Telegraph Company, In order to prevent extortion being prac- ticed apon the employés by grocers and otners, ordered a car load of provisions from Cleveland, Which are now here for thetr use, THE WORK OF A PRUSSIAN SUELL, In ho private ofice of Mr. Cowles, the business manager ol the 7r/vune, was a large Krupp shell, a velic of the siege of Paris, which exploded, making & breach in the walls fifteen feet wide from the foun- dation to the roof, A LYING DESPATCH—NO KABELS IN CHICAGO, A private despatch from St. Lonis says that a de- spatch was sent from this city yesterday to the eect that “St. Louis rebels were here setting fire to the city.” No such despatch was matied from Chicago, it may have been sent by & special correspondent. ‘Yhe whole statement 1s @ pure invengion, as there is no knowiedge of any occurrence of the kind. The city Was never more orderly. KIGHTY DAD BODIES ARE NOW LYING IN THS MORGUE, end may be restored, the @ud its greatuess re- QUE CORPSE IN THE WATER MAIN Ri The bo ly of Lue man who craw: into the water as beck recoguized as that of A. Leckson, of venue, TWESTY DB were taxon from the basemen ihe north neat Chicago avenue RELIEY COMMITEE is now thoroughly organized, with 0. E. Moore President, and David A. Gage Treasurer. The com- Iniftee met in conjuuction with the Council, and de- cided that ali money should be received by David A. surer. Probably 2D PEOPLE V E FED YESTERDY. Provisions are stiil coming tn irom all directions. J. W, Prestou has general cuarge of the receiving of supplics. AN ADJOURNED MELTING OF THE BANEERS of Chicago was beld this morning. A conmmittee was appointed to draft resolutions, which con- sisted of S. Smitu, President of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, and others. The following resolutions were nuanimousiy adopted Whereas this city has been visited by a confagra- non scarcely equalied tn the history of the world; whereas (he bunks have suffered ag severely as the business community generaliy, we feel th ut if left to * peacetu: adjustment Of thelr ailairs they can PAY ALL L'ASILITIES JN PULL, witte any attempi on the part of banks to foree im- mediate payment from their debiors would aug- meut aud intensiiy the widespread ruin and desola- Hoa witeh 18 ipon us, be it Kesvlved, Taat the banks of this city Will open for business a3 soon as possible, giving due notice of time aud place; that ther Wil pay inmediate instal- ments to Dot wore (han Pi PREN PER CENT iu the case ef any riduai bank, and will con- uunue to Pay addittoval imstaiments as fast as asseis be made available, until the entire Hal liquidated, 11 bemy an advautage io the ci fo reserve a portion of their cash Mnodations ty surviving comm solved, Tuat nati assets can be examined and the conaition pubdlic that tie Prestdents and ive and pay vut deposits as trus- reported and acca: i sanizauic » purpose of dovislug means to thee! the exigencles Upon Us. ived, That the overwhelming penerosity of | * world Hils our eyes With tears, Our hearts are full to express the gratitude that weiis m te om of every inkaoMant, We can only say, iOD DLKESS THE NOBLE-MEARIED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD and spare them from such @ calamity. DR. PREAR, |, WAS DO! suffocated, a a well known physic posed, The Franklin Insurance Company of uners a loss of $619,000, wiit pay in full. The report that the Union National Bank hal jost its Money, papers, &c., 1s untrue. A large number of wholesale merchants ate en- tering temporary quarters on Lal Park, direcdy on the Lake front. ATPEAL TO MASONS ‘The Masonte Relief Committee will issue a call to the traterntty to send money and cloilung to UC S sup- Priladelphia They send word that they Cregier, Masonic Temple, Chicago. GOVERNOR PALMER CALLED THE LEGISLATURE TOGETUER. It will assemble at commitiee from this ci Suggost measures of reli GOVERNOR BAYES, OF OHIO, har been here for the past twree (ays assisting In the goorl work. He issues suggestions to the people of Ohio o pusu energetically their efforte to raise COMI LUHOBS, er" Wooo FO BE TED THROUGH THE WINTER. Mr. Joseph Medill, of the Tribune, estumates the bamber io be provided for during the coming wiuler at 70,000, LARUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN has issaed the following oruer:— BSADQUARTERS MILITARY Division Missouri, ) nica t. 12, 1871, To fis HONOR THE MAYOR ¢ preservation of the peace and good order of this cily having been entrusted to me by Your Honor, am happy state that no Case of outbreak or a@iwworder bas been reported; that no authent- cated report of an attempt at incepdiare wm has reacned me, and that the people of Chicago are calm and weil disposed. The force at my disposal is ample to mainiain order, should Jt be Necessary TO protect the district devastated by the fire; still I would suggest to citizens nut to relax their watchiulness until the smovidering Bres of the vurned duildings are entirely cxtingnished. P. H. SHERIDAN, Licuienant General. CLOTHING AND PROVISIONS THAT WiLL KEEP. Mayor Mason Issues the following appeai:— Clotaing and au protectives from the cold will be needed through the winter as weillas now. send anoh articles forward in as lange qaautities as pos- wable, ci money and held it subject to our order. Send In provisions that wil keep. COOKED MEATS MAY STIL. before we can gistribute them, Aid arrives liberally now, ad we Want to husband our. resources a3 possiule, Jor a long Wiuled is jetore ngs and will comigue unili our laboring classes Hed LO sustain (herr families, Springfeid to-morrow. will go down A to-night to | MONEY, | his head and body. mostly f.uad on the north side. it is certain that this ts but a small portion of the number caught in the fiames and utterly consumed. The Coroner yes- terday held an inquest on sixty-four bodies. ONLY TWO OF THEM WERE RECOGNIZED, one, Henry Uliman, a banker, aud the other Peter O'Brien, DHE TORGUE. The Uodies of The Buracd—‘eventy Riacke ened Corpaes—A Hidosns, Barrowing sp: tarle—The Seekers for the Dead. Cricado, Oct. 1, ) Via CINCINNATI, Oct. 12, 1871, 4 The sickening sensation of yesterday was the establishment of a Morgue for the exhumed re- maine of the mighty fire. This shocking repository is the hearse and carriage ri ot A LOWER CLASS UNDERTAKER, on Hubbard #irect, pear Halsted, a few biocks from the freight depot of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway. Ii ts little better tnan a barn, and yet is incorporated with tae dweiling of the proprietor and the stable for his horees. Tue place was guarded by armed policemen, who founda it aiMcult to keep off a coustan'ly renewed crowd of people, with HORROR AND ANXIETY DEPICTED in every pale and pitiiul face. At the far end of this room was @ partitioned space, lighted by dirty, cobwebbed windows, and on the floor, arranged in rows, first all around the three sides and then down the middie were TUR CHARRED REMAINS OF SEVENTY i homan beings. The first noticeable onject of this dreadiul company was the form of @ sister of soue Roman Catholic ordet. completely shrowied in her | browa habit, wiih THE CROSS AND TL. MH. & in white lotters stitehed upon the bosom, The face was thickly veiled, and even the feet were carefully covered. “She was smothered, but not burned,” observed the grim master of ceremonics. Next was the body of a young man, partly clad. THE HAIR WAS COMPLETELY BURNED OFF Tae features were biackened } and distorted with pain. ‘The sw nD lips were wide apart, disclosing the glistening teeth and im- parting a horrid grin, such only a8 agonizing death stamps upon the iace. ‘fhe flesh was bloated to an astonishing size. The poor wreich was roasted alive. Taere was one charred form of a Woman IN THR ATTITUDE OF PRAYER, but every feature of the face was gone. The head Was nothing but a biack lump; the body a hideous, | blackened shape, Some vedies of men coaid ve distinguished by the remnants of clotuing and boots, but nearly all traces of humanity were gone. Then there were REMAINS OF CHULDRBN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, but they, with the majority, were nothing more than mere blackened charred corpses. Those whose iimbs or arms remained exhivited a supplicatory attitude, as if begging mercy of the destroyer. Tu this GHASTLY, UIDBOUS AND MELANCHOLY SPECTACLE Were admitted, im litle parties of four or five ata time, those who had friends or relauves missing, No language can deseribe the scenes of heartrend- | img agony those grim visits elicited. A family ot | little children led vy an eller sister comes and, alter the first sickening shock, TRIES TO DISTINGUISH THUS LOST MOTHER; a frantic wife, attended by @ iriend, comes in search of her unreturning husband. Brothers scek sisters lost and sisters their brothers gone; but who can tell in that undistinguishavie charna! what home the living being once made happy’ All personal Identification is gone With the obliterating fire and noching is left but askes. Worse, perhaps, than identification is the withering di not Snding the missing. The wre GO AWAY WRINGING THEIR HANDS, tearing their hair and rending the very air with piteous cries and unutterable watlings, Besides these burned bodies the Morgue yesterday contained five newly cofmed corpses. One was of a man caught tu the act of firlag a house and shot dead, another of aman HANGED TO A LAMP Post 3 by @ mob for the same crime. Another, of a Ger- man tatior Who lost all, aud cnt hts turoat from ear toear with arazor. The fourth of a woman, whe died in premature chudmirth, brought on by | fright. i NEWLY WEODED OR NEWLY DEAD, The ffih that of a young Woman found in a house in the buraed distriet, either attired for the grave, having died a natural death, or else of a bride par- tially Undressed who was suffocated with smoke, ‘The work of EXUUMING THR REMAINS | was fully Under wetrh, aud the number of charred | remains recovered up to seven o'clock Jasi night was reported at Several of these were mere handfuls of calcined bones, but all were MASON, Mayor. WORKS OF AKT SAV) The statement telegraphed yesterday that all the carefully coliectea and comned for Christian isverment. Intelligent gilizens of Cluica@a sav that NEW YORK HERALD, the toss of human lite from fire, from drowning in | smal! burldings that skireed it north and cast, The FRIDAY, OUTOBERK 13, 1871.—' the river in the effort to escape, and other causes | fire spread somewhat beyond the oily limits and traceable to vie fire will not fall short of 1,009 OR 1,500 TivEa, then died out, because there was nothing within reach combustibie, The elegant aweiling of {i that will cover the entire number when an tutelll- | Mablon D, Ogden, Lafayette place, was the only gent account can be rendered, A Pilgeimage Throush the Burned Disteict— Waut is Lefi—Kifects ef the Elames on Stone, Brick and@ tron—Tho Night en th Prairies=No Liquor Sold—The Grain Iate- vest and Bitls Receivablc—The Bavkers’ Vaults—Hopetul Prospects. a} CHICA», Oct, 11, Via CLRVBLAND, Oot, 12, 187) The terribte calamity which nas befallen Chicago is wholly indescribable. No pen painting can por- tray it, nor any language desortbe it. Those who have visited the city since the commencement of the conflegration will completely understand and confirm this, st must be seen to be appreciated or comprehended, WHAT CHIOAGO Has ESCAPED. ‘The hoavy rain of Monday night aided materially in preventing the spread of the firo westward across the north branch of the Chicago River. Unttl then everything was the matter of accidents Notwithstanding the neroulean efforts of the fire- men and oitizens a burning shingle, a failing mast from a |, ® whirlwind of sparks, floating boards And timbers ou fire, all combined to increase the chances that the ames would at some point on the river gain @ hold on the other bank and coutiuue their ravages northwest; but by daylignt ‘Tuesday morning the Gre had substantially dicd out, and farthor danger was mainly averied. THE DANGRR NRARLY OVER, Except the flames which occasionally burst out from smouldering ruins or sprang up flercely when some wembling ‘wails gave thom temporary iue!, and the burning of the great, glowing, scelting, sulphurous masses of bituminous and anthracite coal in piles twenty feet high, and extending almost continuously along the north branch for three- fourths of a mile, the devouring element seemed at rest. Men breathed more freely, feeling that the fire had spent its force and must die out for want of fuel, ‘The following statement, as plainly writron as possi- ble, may convoy to the reader some general idea of Hs point of origin, general course and main ex- tent, VUE EXTENT OF THE FIRB. The lake shore at Chicago runs nearly norih and south, und the principal streets are parallel thereto aud af right angles therewith, Chicago River rans back from tid lake due woatnearly a mile, and then forks into what are called North and Souti branches, which run in reality almost north and south Tespectively for at least a mile each. From the main river southward the strects in order are South Water, Lake, Washington, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Congress, Harrison, Polk and Taylor, ‘The last named is at an estiiare consider. ably over A MILE SOUTH OF CHICAGO RIVER PROPER. Beginning at the lake the streets west ward are Michi- #An avenue, Wabash avenue, State street, vearborn, Clark, Lasalle, Wella, Franklin, Market; then com- ing the South branch, Canal street, Cl.nton, Jeder- son, &c, The flre Saturday night destroyea on the west side every building within the bounds of Adams street on the north, Jefferson oa the west, Farguer and Taylor on the south, and the South branch on the east, excepting a few buildings of little worth used by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Al bridges across the South branch are destroyed, from Madison street to ‘Tweifth street. THE ORIGIN OF THE CONFLAGRATION. On Sunday night about nine o'clock a woman or a boy was milking a cow in @ sunall stable near the corner of Dekoven and Clinton streets, on the west side, and just south of the district burned over the night before. By some accident a kerosene lamp Was upset in the cowshed. ‘The Names spread rapidly, owing to high wind and tue dry condition of the batidiags, The gate came from a litte west of south, and the fire crossed the South branch to the east Sine, just South Of Harrison street. 178 PROGRESS. By six o'clock on Monday morning tt had swept diagonally across the territory bounded | y Harrison street, the South branch, the main river and tre lake cast. Jn its passage the Michigan Southern Larman’s biock, Post Oilce, Zimes and Tribune omices, Court House, Chamber of Commerce, Sher. man, Tremont and Briggs Hotels, Metropolitaa Cpera House and other noted editices were con- sumed, LAID LN ASHES, Ry noon every buiiding of whatever description within the limits last named was in ashes, with the single exception of Fulior, Fineh & Fuller's large brick drug store, standing oa the angle formed by the main river and the south branch. On the north side, from tne river northward, the streets are North Water, Kinzie, Michigan, Miinols, Tudiaua, Ohio, Ontario, Erie, buron, Superior, Chicago ave- nue. Pearson, Hinsdale, White, Whiting, Oak, Wendell, Hii, Eim, Ciybourne avente, Gaanger, Sigel, Schiller, Black Haws, North avenue, Linden, Menothonce, Wisconsin, Centre, Sophia, Asylum, Relden, Failerton avenue (which ts the south line of Lincoin Park), Lif avenue, Wrightwood a: and a few others not lata down on the city map, THE COURSE OF THE FLAMES. When the fire swept novihward across Chicago Niver it missed afew buildings on Ktnzie street, next tu the North branch, but crept round them to North branch a full half mile, ignitiug ihe immense coal yards that were located the From thenes the westward line of the ive was nearly a straght line to Lineotu Park. Everyining east of this to the jake and south to t iver was bur other slugle exception—a wooden buridr Lafayette square on the north and in the c fine grounds reaching from North Clark to Dearborn strect, Owned by Mr, Mation D. Ogden. northern end of Lincoin Park the efiy limits were reached, and the fire stayed its ravages for lack of fr nti } anything to consume. A WALK THROUGH THE BURNED revealed the terrible extent and force of ite Im many places the streeta were filled from curl. ; stone to curbstone with hunrireds of tons of bricks and stove, rendering them almost impussable to the bravest pedestrians, A portior of the front wall of the Pacific Motel stood tor several stories tn beight, breath of wind. A Corner of te Hovoré biock ahot upfive stories high on a base a few feet square. Tne Tribune building, ere posed to be fireproof, yet nothing ts lets of it to-fiay but parts of is dilapidated wally and a mass of rubbish and twisted iron in ite cellars and base. ments, The Post Office and Court House walls stand intact and look bub little the worse Jor the fire save iu their smoked and blackened condition, The Times oMce and many other butidings could only be located by a careful count of streets and lots,” Paseing op Raudviph trom Dearborn, a group of four or five persons attracted us to the ruins oppo. site the Sherman Honse site, on Clark sirect. A SKELETON, ‘There, among the rubbish, partly ‘covered with broken bricks, lay Ue skeleton of aman, burned to remains of one Who but yesterday was an animate, sentient being. All bridges on tue main river are destroyed. Crowds of men, women and even cit. dren were swarming through the Lasalle street tunnel all day long. Approaches to It are all badiy Wocked up With rubbisi, vot once Inside 1 ts far from ail Obsiructions, except smoke, The atmo- sphere ig hot and absolutely stimg. From the north end of the Lasaile street tunnel nothing be- yond is visible bat SMOKING RUINS, scorched trees, a few bare walls and the ruins of the city water works away to the right. On nearing these you discover (Lat Buckingham’s elevator B, hortheast of the Michigan Central depot, stanas «lone and antarmed. 1s tsvlation and sheet iron armor saved it, All round the Water works lay great water mains by dozeus. These were not heated enough to myure them, but one & them possesses le A MOURNPFTL RELIC of the great fire 18 the roasted body of some poor fellow, Who doubtiess took refuge there from the giowing heat and paid for his misplaced judgment with hisiie, His clothing was burned off and his body swollen, raw and te color of alobster. From the water works northward everything was con sumed that would burn, all the way to Divistoa avenne. Failerton avenne, Lincola Park and we and Rock Isiand depots, tne New Pactte Hotel, | the river above and followed Ue east bank of the | with ane | | ntre of | At the | threatening to topple over on passers-by with every | | ied Jast year, Was sup. | a crisp aud looking more ike a mummy than te | unburned kouse in sight for dozens of squares. Passing north along the line of the street ratiroad the itensity of the heat during the conflagration was further evidenced 1a the warped aud TWISTED IRON BAILS of tno road. All the rai's for entire squares were expanded by the heat, until the contrea were sprung up one, two and in many instances three feet. The Catholic Cemetery, south of Lincoln Park, was & Place of reiuge for families driven from their houses all Monday forenoon; but by twelve o'clock the dames and smoke reached them there and com- pelled them to flee beyond the city mits. The cemetery grounds aro littercd with fragments of everything conceivable im the way of wearing apparel and household property. Passing to the left of the cemetery aud of Lincoln Park # short distance brought me'to the extreme northern point of the conflagration. Thore was not o house withia ‘@ quarter of @ mile northward to burn, and not one unburned within a distance of four miles on a straight line southwest. The BUBNED TERRITORY ran to @ point on the lake shore and left a corie- sponding triangie ‘unburned on what is termed the north side, with its base at fullertea avenue and 1ts rex on the North branch, near Chicago avenue. Every house ts destroyed between Lincoln Park and Hubbard atreet, as far north as Grant place. The western line of the fire 13 gonerally sharply defined and nearly direct, but 18 deficcted in some places by the character of the butidings and by the improved or unimproved condition of certain squares, The open square, for Instance, on the corner of Hurlburt and Sophia streets doubtiess saved scores of houses directly north and threw the tire oa the street east- ward. A large proportion of the property which is burned on the norih side was occupied vy its owners, Many of them were small traders and others me- chanics. These, in their deaperate attempts to avort the flames and save their homes, almost unt: versally delayed moving their personal effects uatil nearly every chance of transportation had siipped away. Tholr lagi resorg was to DIG TRENCHES | tn their back lote, Mower ana vegstavle gardens, fill them with clothing and valuables and cover with a few inches or feet or earth, It is no exag- geration to say that hundreds of wagon loads were thus cached, much of it to be iost to the iawful owners, and much more to be damaged or destroye by mud and water. | ON THR PRAIRIF—A RAINYNIGHT, Monday bight many thousands of people, with all their earthly povsessions, were ecattered over the prairie in groups and crowds. About mid- night it commenced raining gently, ond at thiee in the morning there was a heavy shower Tasting fifteen or twonty minutes. Tne homeless and houseless ones had no vetter shelter than the bundies they carried with thom, by daylight tho wind was cold, and many were neariy frozen, At the coiner of Chicago avenue and Kingsbury street DEAD BODIES were lying in piain sight in what appearea to be the cellar of a building. How many others were buried in the débris may never be known. They were evidentiy of both sexes. In attempting to- Temove one or two of the best preserved bodies the fluids dropped away In slokening exudations, which made them far more horrible to the senses tian others more consumed. Farther south, on Kings- bury street, the body of a targe, muscular man was lying in the road as he bad probably fatlen from the heat and suffocation. His clothing was burped en- trely off; the flesh was blackened past all iaenuf- cation, Near Indiana avenue the air was flea with the pecullar and indescribable odor which emanates from roasted human flesh; but a fifteen minutes’ search failed to find the remains or to fx certainly under which mass of ruins it lay buried, nor could it be said with any certainty thata dozen bodies were not thus being reduced to ashes. Crossing the Norili branch on f£rle street and going southward along the wharf gives one an excellent view of the | BURNING COAT, piles, docks and what is left in (he way of strag- gag Chober ant luober, The piles are all burued off close to the top of the water, and the hewn tim- | vers of the dock are also burned down to the same | level. Scattered ail over the devastated part of the | city are te sorrowtui wreceas of what were popu- | larly believed to be FIREPROOY BUILDINGS. In most instances they were composed of brick ana stone walts, With Iron girders, stringers, joists, &c., }and their gwners fondly prided . theraseives, like the builders of Pabytot on possessing & sure refuge and tulwars aguiust one of the devouring elements—iire. | leas than twenty winu'cs sufficed to transpose them j from stately edifices or pataces into pitiful masses and piles of cruubicd brick and stone and warped and biackened von. This conflagcaiion has abuu- j dantly proven that stone bulldings are but a wine Tt many instances j nothing Known to modera architecture posseszes Ko mach power lo resist imten heat as brick cemented with well tempercd mortar, Out of dozens especially examined not one stoke vault seemed perfect, but many brick Ones Were almoss wholly auhart, Mitcs upoa MILES OF CURBS TONKS | are thoroughly eaicued and redaced to Ime, inso- much that, although erght inches i thicknesa, they au be broken off by Ure dand and actualy cram. bie ito simatl fragarents by the fingers. Car loads of provisions are arriving tvom every direction, All the clarehes on ihe west side are 0} , and committees are roheving all who cail, Pho Mayor has issued a prociamaiton ordering | NO Liovon to be sold Ull further orders. | INCENDIAKIOS HANGED, | Several persons were caught in ie act of ving houses on the weet side, and four have been lung | to Jampposts. The city and county records ere, of course, Whol y Jost, but three compiete sets of ab- | atracts are sakt to be sare in the hands of private | owners. Ifso they will donbtiess he legalized and | nade public property. Gage, lie Sherman House, issuidto have rented the Laciede House, corner Madison and Conal streets, and Drake, of the Tree mont House, tas taken the Michigan Avenue lotel, away somth sywewhere, Me, Henry J. Uinmaon, | tormerly of Rawne, but bare cashier of a Chicago ank, Was foond dead in the street Monday and entified by papers and articles on his person, He started to the bank on tne first alarm of fire and | Was never seen alive afterwards, The body was | notmuch purned, and death ensued most: likely | from suffocation. His reniains have been taken to | Racine Jor snterment, | THR MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION. | ‘The Mayor to-day ieued te following procia- | mation: — ‘The preservation of the good order and peace of | the city 18 herevy entrustea to Lieutenant General | PB. Bherican, United States Army, The police Will act m conjunction With the Lieutenant General in the promotion of the peace and quiet of the city, and the Supesmtendent of Police will consutt with him to that end, the mtent hereot being to preserve the peace of the city Without interfering with the fune'tons of tne city governinent, | -civen wider my hand, this 1th day of Octo- ber, 1871. R. B. MASON, Mayor, ESTIMATE OF LOSS. AN approximate estimate of the total losses is about two hundred milions The area burned over is over two thousand acres. Toe number of build- ings burned 38 not below twenty thousand, *The nuniber of lives lust in believed to be at least two hundred, There areabont one hundred thousand persons iu need of reef, Seven compantes of TROOPS HAVE ARRIVED, and others are expected. The city Is reasonably quiet, and ail necessary measures have been taken to secure good order. Every city and village in the Northwest of any importance has started trains or provisions for the relief of sufferers. Railroad passes are farnished to all who will leave thecity. The Bening Journal (extea) of this afternoon says in- surance companies have commenced to be heard trom, and that the following companies, among others, Will pay their ennire risks The Phenix, nearly a million; the North American, over ® mit. the Repubite, nearly @ millon; the Aitna, ly four mulilons; the Hartford, a militon; vie Ande, of Cincinnatl, aboui tire saute amount The hor { more to be trusted than wooden ones, and that | RIPLE SHEET. German National Bank, safe. New York (old Exchan $16,200 00 New York Produce kxchange. 28,690 00 New Vork Stock Exchange 20,000 00 New York importer ‘gro 1uas New York Goamber of Commer 192.115 00 | Chambers street merchants 2,150 09 Hat and cap tr 14,267 09 Wholesale coal tr : sia wo Dry goods trade 192088 0 Lewenstetn's esta 142 shoe and len x Live Rallroad printers. oh 8 bung 00 Meeelianeous,, A813 66 ———————— Fidelity Safe Deposit Company authorizes tho .St3te ment that its deposits are aafe, and calls owners 10 take thelr deposits, ABOUT THE BANKS. Tue greatest interest everywhere prevalis with reference to the condition of the bank vaults and sales of the city, Quite a number of bank and other safes nave been already opened, and, after a careful examination, it seems that nearly every dollar therein will be saved, Three of tho national bank vaults were opened yesterday and everything found intact, The most important potot, however, is the billa receivable. A careful analysis of this tem gives @ more cheerful aspect to affairs than might be expected. Of the agaregate loans nearly two-thirds were made to lumber, grain and Provision dealers, The provision and lumber deal- ers have lost comparatively litle, and as for the Grain dealers, the entire L083 OF GRAIN ‘Will not excoed $2,000,000. This loss would fall mainly on about six leading gram banks. The Greatest loss in the bills receivable of the banks will be on regular mercantile paper. If this mercantile Paper is worth even twenty ceuts on the dollar there is reason to hope that the banks will ultt- ,Mately find that thoir bills receivable are worth on Qn average sixty cents on the dollar, and perhaps considerably more. HOPEFUL PROSPECTS. It will take time to make this available, bub we belleve thas some of the banks will ultimately pay the whole of their deposits. They must, of course, have some money to begin business on, and for this reason will not be able to pay anything very soon. There 1s to be & meeting of bankers at the Wabash avenue residence of Mr. 0. T. Wheeler this after- noon, at two o'clock, when uniformity of action will be agreed upon in regard to tho position the banks shall take In view of ail the ciroumstances. The THLBGRAPH COMPANIES have opened offices ana are at work milly on commercial and personal despatchos. No special telegrams can be sent to newapapera yet, and may not be fora week tocome. The DAMAGE TO SHIPPING by the recent terrinie conflagration, although not 4 great as frst roported, 1s yet quite large. The Mayor issued an order xing the price of broad at eight cents for twelve ounce loaves antl prohibiting the sale at higher prices under penalty of seizure. All persons found charging extortionate prices for any articte will be punished by seizure of the goods, One of ‘the city’s greatest needs ts water. It 1s claimed that the water works engines will be run- ning to-morrow, but this is doubtful. The Adams strect reservoir still stands and is being filled by fire engines, The Artesian wells supply many in the Western part of the city. Carts and wagons are carrying Water from the lake all through tue city. Geverameat Offices Quarterol—Tireprecd Safes Wanted. WASSUNGTON, Oct, 12, 187. The Coltector of Customs at Chicago telegraplied Secretary Boutwell to-day:—‘'I have secured excel- lent quarters for every government office in the cily. Send tmmeaately @ supply of books, blanks aud stationery suficient to run all offices, and espectally two fire and burglar proof safes for the use of the Custom Honse and United States Depositary. Can- not say whether the goverament funds are burned," The Mail ServiceOrder to Postmnsters. Careaao, Oct. 12, 1 George A. Wood, Superintendent of the United States Postal Service, Issues the following notice:— TO ALL POSTMASTBERS AND ROUTE AGENTS:— Make up no matls for distribiition in Chicago, save only Chicago city mail. Throw all such into the postal cars and large oitices for distribution. Hurry Forward the Sunplies=No Cooked Rations Wanted—Blankets, lower and Money Required. ‘The following was last night received at the Erie Railway ofice by telegraph :— r CHICAGO, Oct. To a J. Hours, Superimendent of raph:— 4 elma take from.yon promptly the supplies for the Chicago sufferers, as designated in Mr, Kucker's despatch recelved this afternoon. In view of some contusion prevaliing, permit me to acquaint you with the report just made to me of the Mayor and comunittee, through George M, Pullman, chairman:— “No more cooked provisions are neated, If such are sent the probability is thar much of the same would be wasted. Tents and suanues are going no and cooking stoves are peing provided and soup houses arranged, to ensure the greatest ecouomy . 1ST je Tele- {| and efficiency in the preparation and use of food. | Yo ald in this, money is the chief requisite, or let other contribations bo in flour, hams, and espe- cially blankets, clothing and bedding. Send all money by draft, addressed to and made payable to the order of David U, Gage, City Treasurer, Chicago, 4. Hi, DEVEREUX. Newspapers Reappearing—Ruilways Resume ing—Bank Vnults Safe. Carcago, Oct. 12, 1871, The Republican this morning issued a half sheet and tne 7ribune an entire sheet, filled with adver- lisements aud announcement of merchants’ change of locatities, New Yor«, Oct, 12, 1871. J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincey Railroad Company, teiegraphs that business was substantially stopped on that road on the 9th, bat resumed on the 10th, ‘There will be no delay hereafter in forwarding freight and passen- gers by Uus line. Cuicago, Vel. 12, 1871, GREENFBAUM Broranrs & Co., New Yor! Vaulis, books, papers and ail valuables of the M. QREENEBAUM, BuTTBR THAN SPB CHES The Generous Offerings of the Country. The Millions Respond to the Call for Aid. New York Casting Bread Upon the Waters. ‘The lavor of collecting money and supplies for the sutforers by (he fire in our sister city of Chicago goes bravely on, and, from the energy displayed in the good work, 1t Is very evident that a generous public will not let the unfortunate victims of the lames want for any necessary that money can purchase or hands prepare. In yesterday's HERALD we gave tne contributions of the country as far as heard from, and this morning the contributions are continaed, WHAT NEW YORK HAS DONS. ‘Ihe following are the total collections of money reported In yesterday's HERALD: New York total reported yerterda COLLECTED IN THE CITY YESTERDAY, Moneys Received nt the Herald OMtce, Previously acknowledged... ve «8,010 60 FROM EMPLOYES OF HUNTERDON (Ns Jo) MANUFAG= MPANY. aOR dg We Bhepnard. "20 00 0. Ward... 3, Ram Edward Cook Jacgn Foose Ws Foose K. Joseuh jlilesoi a tf. Kelifhu : Be ec if John McNamara, Jr. Wm. Jonnsou. FROM J. FINLAY 4, Fintay Smoith.... P. Stubert nt § ere SRLCSTRSTASTTE em meteroes & SSSslSssssssses eee tf rey Boasie Campbell. ML Davidson Mrs, Salto. Ann Mortor Mary Mat, FROM A. GRRENWOOD & A. Greenwood & € $825 00 Mre. LL. C. Greenwood. ff 00. eed EMPLOYES, Neary Cleary’ James Ferguson, es Hora: 59 Mary Suliiva 10o James Kearny fe pe fant wie i Anite Hig: 5 Badsio Hughes Honora Sullivan SUSeaEEeeEceessasy SSSR SEZES ecise SLLSESSTES FROM ATTACHES A. Schmidt ‘100 Mi Bora King BLL. Beikat 18 S2SELSS2SSSELEER ‘Annette Waldvogel .. Tlutda Gensch eee ele 00 3 Ke vu in Moloca: James Meariie» 10) Wiliam toll io award A. Stackpoole.. 100 William McWhinnie lo John Morrison 100 Thomas Dunn Lm oy George Thornto: 20 William Smith 1a Jonen Keogh 100 Thomas fanno 1a James Russel! 100 Witte Machin 5t Timothy lols 0) Frank Keog! I George Mariin 100 Clerkw of Ferem, oN, Apiirew Conway s.1..., 100 sau street... 218 In yesterday's list the names of Kibne, Chaffee, Shreve & Co., who contributed $5010, was printed Webbe & Co, FROM THR EMPLOYES OF & HH. STROUSE & BRO, Cash. Miss A. Preford. it Oo fi “A. Li . 10 tas B. Collins, Misa K. O'Reilly... Misa E. Moran.. 50 20) a0 FE) 100 Mins E. Wadi wo 100 10 100 50 100 Miss 10 500 Miss 1 00 350 Mins K, i 20) Miss A. 10 200 Miss J. 5a 20) Miss A. M: 10 10) Miss M. J. Riloy. 10 100 Miss K- Keating. 100 100 Miss i: Ly ly 10 Miss M. Me 0 100 Miss 60 100 oo lo on 50 ou 10 oa * co) M. Cohn & Co Employes in oilice. Weaving deparim Corset department DONATIONS BY THE EMPLOYES OF M. STEINHAuDT a oo. 8. B. Marks 85 00 F. Richter, 3 D, Levy § 00H. Heise. 100 Jaines, @ F. Dewal 100 E, R. Steinberal 25 0) Michael M we J. L, Steinhardt 10 00 Leopold Levy. 100 Robert Kobler.. 300 Conrad Mehting. lw Andrew Dicrlora. 600 Bernard Remmut. -100 Solomon Meyer 10) W. Ludwi; +100 Michae! Stolk 200 $. Goldater Lod M. A. Kall 200 Charies 109 Piitilip Seve: 8) W. 4. Goodda; 100 HM. Thaphanser 00 Charles Wiede: 1 , Son Bauer. 100 J.L.S,, to make up $76, 1 50 OTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS." EB, A. Aveseee sees coereee B10 A poor mam with large Employes Hanterdon family... r Manulacturiag © 198 1 |. He Re * r Max Goebel. . B. Sh wo 58 5 t 10 & 6 a % B Contributed by Ellison & = 4 2 No. 3 6 eve Contributed by the om- 25° ployes of 100 6 inidor Mehringer. lon (a fe Crosiae.. Mary Martin Mary Dawiao James Golden... Wm. Tyman. Horace A. Bradley. A Poor Map ‘A Tender Heart.. iway.. James B. Clark A fame es a oni ©. 8, Ord 28) SSSS SESSSESS TESS oceerwenncnwnmenns = cleri on Total aubacript Previously reporte Total for HERALD offlee.s seereesvere sO M05 90, Additioun! Contributions by the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. A. A. Low, treasurer of the Chamber of Com- merce Commnittee, reports the followiug additional subscriptions for the relief of the Chicago suderera up to fur o'clock P. M., October 12:— Pfeffer... 8900 Star Fire I inter... Peary = ene Guidet. Charles " Rothschild Bros. & Gut- mai f Com. ©. Miller, James L, Jackson. Watker Bros... Jacobs, Strauise A ( ‘Awerican Whip Ca, Fowler & Slocum A, B&O. Tift Prow W. Tinisey & Co 4 0 Brower Reva Frothingham, Baylis & N.P, Besley one eH Cammane ay ch Griewold. 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