The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1871, Page 5

THE DESOLATE CITY. Additional Accounts of Suffering and Death. ROBBERY, RAPINE AND FAMINE. A Night in Lincoln Park-—Birth of Three Children in the Open Air. meen FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE. The Demi-Monde Escaping from Reynolds’ Block. pannnnne A SCENE OF TERROR. Drunken Hariots Make the Air Resound with Curses. A FEAST OF DEATH. The Fire Buns Through a German Burying Groncd and Cousumes the Vaults Filled with Dead Bodies. Tombs Overturned and Graves Burned. ORDER RESTORED. Cause of the Fire and Es- é timated Loss. THE FUTURE O CHICAGO. GUR MAP OF CHICAGO. Tne map of Chicago in our present number ts, we believe, the most correct and faithful one that has get been Issued. No trouble has been spared in getting tt up in the most perfect manner poasibie, it saving been drawn under the supervision of a gen- Weman, 4 resident of Chicago, well acquatotea with she topography of the city. He was in the city all through the conflagration, and therefore is in a po- sition to vouch for the accuracy of our representa- Moe of the burned district, A few expianatory re- marka relative to We map will not be out of place. At Drat sight, on looking at it, one would suppose ‘hat the extent of territory the firey covered had beep greally exaggerated, out @ closer tspection will show that this 18 not the case. A targe part of the city, as presented in tho map, con- sists merely of suburbs and streets in the prospect- tve, with houses scattered at wide intervals from tach other. The burned part, It ls searcely necessary wo state, constutated the city proper, and comprised tn Its junits its wealth, business and property. ‘The tiver divided che city into four divisions--north, aonth, east aud west. South from the river were she great centres of business—La Salle, Clark, Dear- ern and State streets and Wabash aud Micht- gan avenues. North of Wabash is Water street, which was the great seat of the provision and fruit trades, and jt was, provably the busiest part of the city. These streets ran north and south and were intersected by take, Randolph, Washington, Madison and other umportant thoroughfares, equal to the former in wwe amoutt of business they transacted, As may be seen, this disirict is eatirely destroyed, not se house remains standing, and scarcely 9 wall, in the whole space, indicated on the map, The west side, as may be seen, is almost uninjured, but this ts she poorest part of vue city, consisting mostly of frame houses, occupied chiefly vy the laboring. #lauses. Pari of the space represented on the map ™® enlirely uniunabitea, though within the city limits, The Nonses are of the yery pooress Kind, aud it had long been ® matcer of wonder to tonrisis that they had not been pulled down and better ones erected In their stead, The forth side, Which has veep destroyed as far as Line coln Park, was tu many respects like the west side, q@ith the vxception that it had many valuable. puild- Ings, churches and collewes within its limite, Jnst over tne Randoiph strect bridge was the Galena ac- pot and freight mouses of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, which have been all swept away. The residents of this part were of the betver class, many of them being very wealthy. It is completely gutted from the river clear to the park, 4 disia@nce of three miles; note bonse stands on the south side, and the fire extended. asx may be seen, as far a« Harrison street. At Mon. eve street business in a great measure ceases and private residences commence, and these, for five locks south anda fat greater distance wesi, are enureiy consumed. From where the fire seavei on the south side the city extends m that direction for several miles, and 1s thickly built up. It is the fashionable part of Chicago, being Inhabited solely by the most wealthy families, ii destraction woult gave wade whe loss infinitely greater, Duc it hag been, fortunately, spared, kveerything in the burned district, east to Lake Michigan, is gone. At the foot of Lake etreet Was sitnaved the great Central Ratiroad depot, and dust below the White Stockings bad their grounds, ‘Then there was a vacant space without any build. ings, the place of retugze, to which thousands daring the fire repaired, Where La Satie svreet termmaied was the depot or the Lake Snore and Michigan Sonthero Railroad, beside 1 was we Pacific House, and directly {nu tie centre of the @arkoned part of the map stood the principat news- paper offices and hotels, We hope this brief sketch will cuable onr readers to understand the exact Jocaviou of he Ore, Jt Is as faithful @ one as can be gpven, and is derived from @ long and thoroagh acquaintance with the city. As we sald before, no pains or expease have been spared In making the wap a tab should be, ood we Matter ouspeives REW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET. that it ts the most correct and faithful one that hae yet been issued, DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY. CHICAGO, Oct. 12, 1871. A former letter to the H#RALD described, to the best of my ability, eome of the fearful scenes attend- ing the great calamity that has visited Chicago. I will endeavor to fil some of thé “breaks” in that communication by relating some of the most impor. tant incidents that came under my observation m my race with the fire, As I was passing by the burn- ing Post OMce I was chained to she spot by the shrieks and curses emanating from Reynokis’ Diock, a WSLL KNOWN RESORT OF THH DEMI-MOXD}. ‘This block ran trom Madison street south to an alicy betwoen it and the Poat OMce building, and fronted east on Dearborn street. Some two hundred prosti- tutes of the ‘#lreet walking order” haa rooms here, and when the fire reached them @ number of them were siceping Off the effects of intoxication and de- bauch. Crazy drunk and petrified with fear, a nom ber of them were trying to get out throngh the alley entrauce. The flames from the Post Office building Grove many back, and with horrible curses on their lips they staggered back to perish in the ruins. No oue could assist them from that side, but & signal was made for them to go around to tne Dearborn street side, and here ®@ umber were assisted two the ground by firemen and citizens. About twenty-five rushed out through the Maaiwon street door with nothing but their night clotntog on and a dregs hastily snatched up in their hands, No trunks or jewelry, no wara- robes or tolics articles, or albums, contaluing pic- tures of their lovers (f) could be Jooked alter now. All were possexsed with the one idea of personal safety. They ran willy up and down the street, all Inthe light of a thousand fires, exposing tneir nakedness to the cycs of thousands, but no one took note of such & ascene then, and to many who saw it the recollection thereof will not fade for many a day. How they bewalled their fate! How some of them cursed their luck, their Maker and the day they came to Cnicage | Said one to a companion, “For Gods sake, Jule, ain’t this fearfal; and I was just getting started, ahd making stamps Jike hell.” Just getting started! Hormble! Whatcan be the state of that woman’s mind who bewails the fate that relieves her froin @ Ie of shame? Others were making the air heavy with ripald jests aud baccnanaltan songs. The very spirit of hell seemed to have taken possession ol the lot. ‘The same scenes were transpiring around in Clark street, in a block devoted to similar purposes, Young girls of fourteen—and Chicago was noted for many of that age pursuing a life of shame—and women of forty, the lowest in the city, occupied rooms in Madison plovk, and their efforts to get ont, were it not tor the horrible occasion that necessi- lated therm would have been laughable. A girl of sixteen rushed out of the lower hall and into the street, carrying 9 bird cage in one hand and a palr of stockings im auother. She had on abso- jutely nothing but her night clotming, ané this Was not put on in the most secure Manner. Thon a great big, burly, half-intoxicated car driver cmerged, bearing in his arme his mistress for the pight, ‘Three drunken bawds jnmped from the first story window to the pavement beneath and escaped uninjured. Their cries were interspersed ‘with hornbie oaths, and, like their sisters of Rey- nold’s block, they frequently indulged in songs af ter the manner of the ‘ Poet of the period,” wien they had once reached the grouud without injury. Finally the wall fell in witn a loud crasb. and some women are supposed to have perisned. I conld stay no longer, but mounting a horse 1 had borrowed proceeded northward to the scene of the north side tire, which was just beginning, aud which was to render seventy thousand people homeless be- fore nightfail. How the flames rushed up the great avenues and halting at nothing, not even the grave, bul, a4 if possessed of THR ARCA FIEND OF HELL, swept relentlessly on, destroying tne houses of the living aud the dead. It burned across Clark street, destroyed the dence that bounded the ola German cemetery from the street, avd swept across the grass and devastated the graves. A great many family lots were enclosed by a wooden fence. In every instance these fences were burned. and where te head boards were of wood these also were consnmed, Stone memorials were overturned, and the fire in ita utter flendighness actually burned into the groand to the depth of & foot lu some it- stances. Not satisfied with tis it continued on its destructive career and burned all the vaults and their contents, One large receiving vault must have contained ai least twenty aead bodies, every one of which was destroyed utters. Grave after grave 18 rained beyond all hope of recognition, One wooden tomb Is burned In A mosi fantastic man- ner, It appears now like a flagatai, with a flag on its peak. Horrible idea ! ‘The demou of fre waving @ flag of victory over death | THE WHOLR SURF ACB OF THE CEMEPKRY is scorcned black, and eévery tomb 1s either over- worned or burned, and che graves devastated, As the flames swept across Uis cemetery, scourging with relentless fury the living and the dead, » num- ber of women, who were bearing bedding and other infammatie articles, were overtuken and their dresses and their burdens fired, and it was only by the prescence of mind exercised by the men, who forced these women directly mto the lake, that their lives were Saved, and even now the shore ts covered with half burned wcking, nearly buried by the sand and action of the Waves. } MONDAY NIGHT IN LINCOLN PARK wit never be forgotten. The horrors of tne aay anu | the bigve of the stil) burning city would not atiow of sleep, even Lad there been beds of own provided for tat purpose. Rude shelters wore erected under the trees and such as had any bedding spread it on the groun, and, aller @ general Alvision of the pro- vistons that were saved, the children were sent to bed (what @ mockery it seems to say the children were pat to bed), and the poor thiags were so com- pictely worn out that the experiences of the day Nad not the power to Keep sleep trom their eyeilds. [ doubt if shere Was a man there that slept that night, all it long Lagi wat aud talked of their losses and what must de done for the inture, Some specu- jated on the lfluence of the news abroad, and won- dered if the cities of oar eguntry would come to ther assistance in the hour of their necessity, Littie they kacw that in less thon ten hours from that Ume Petroit would have ianuded a train load «of provisiona at Twenty-secoud street, soath division, @ad what every’ city Ww tne country Woulli dave respondea to their wants be: lore they were asked 10 the extent of $5,000,000 he- fore twenty tour hours should bave passed. It is. the nature of Dumanity to look on te dark side wheu reverses are at the door, and | did nov wonder at the fears oi some few people Wno expressed 4 3us- pm thas over cities would fal to respond. Women who had been on their feotall day, thor- oughly exhausted now, refused to sleep, but persist. ed mm watebing their oftapring, aud the under the shade of the mapies in Lincoln Park, these brave women spent @ lew, AOLTOWINg Hight; Many were ing; others ware praying; Po. 1 grou; talking in low witspers, and some, forgeitui ol their own calamities, were ning solation (oA mother who nad ana chuidren. to administer con- lost home, QNaband THR AGONIZING WALLS | Of grief-stvicken muthers, who vainty caved tue | natues of their slaughtered dariings, was touch in the extreme, and some famt conception may b obtained of He ScoMes Of BOrrOW Irom wis source alone wheo [ state ihat the city papers to-day pub- ish the uumes of over two hundred milestag people, Men, Woes aod CNiidren, end more vames Conung du al) the time, CHILDREN BORN IN THK OPEN ALK, It seemed that cach hour of that iong night de- veloped some new and terrible phase of sintering. A Woman came TUaning ap to & group of gentionen and asked sf there was a doctor anywhere m the crowd, One Was soon tortheoming--a Dr. Muier— aad he was mformed ivat his services were required to assist the progress of a chia tuto the world. He rewwrned tp am hour aud reported that the delivery bad been sately accomp)ished, and the | mother was ‘colpg @s Weil as could be expected.” No jess than turee children were born jn Lincola Park within Miieen Hours—prematurely, dountiess, by tie excitement atteudant on the scencs through ‘wiach the mochers had passed. It was a very com- 4 mon sight Lo vee People sirescued ous on — of} straw, sulerivg. from different Wacases, many of them Naviag been summoned from a ack bed at home w save inher live, A man named Tracy, Who had been confined to the house for three years with rheumatism, walked and ran Alternately @ distance Of two miles during Monday, and was now stretched on the damp grass, without shelter or (ood. Yet his case wan oue of hundreds almost ax bad, some Worse even. SO THR NIGUT WORK AWAY, the fires jn the sity stilt raging. ‘The north side having been totally destroyed, re ple noineless, the fire must needs take anew course, and, gathering all its fury for another ee struck a new tack and began burning southwar from AGams street, south side. It gathered up the shanties in Third and Fourth avenues like so much tuder, with ail their crowded population of negroes, Jowest class demi-monde and dilers, many of whom were unable to save their lives evcn, 80 fierce and rapid were the flames. Despair, hope- lessnesa and discouragement had ion ol were one, and the fire was rapidly extending south- ward when despair suddenly turned to some litte hope, as the wid changed and a rain storm began. At twelve o'clock the fires bad generally ceased. But how was it with the guiferers th the Park ¢ A PITILESS RAIN STORM Oescended on their devoted heads for three hours, and to the exposure and danger from tre was added the danger from its twin element of destruc- tion, water. How the poor children huddled closer together under the trees asthe rain drops fell thicker and thicker; yet with al) thetr sufferiug they, Wo, with a wisdom beyoud their years, felt it vo be a matier of congratulauon sae some part of the city at least would now be saved. nmadied together, like. ‘sheep, i er, like D, space on eithet side of Division This street had been recenuly the sidewalk had becn raised to the surface of the mew grade. Under these sidewalks people & were crowded in every conceivable manner, Some ‘Were trying to cook scraps of meat, having saved their cook stoves; others were oc! in looking over their goods, and on the whoie I think they. Were more fortunate than their neighbors who were encamped in Lincoln Park. The majority of twem were Germans, and had been eogaged in some business requiring a horse. As they saw the flames ata distunce they haa packed up their household goods and were ready to leave when the fire Led storm by the sidewalk above them. Not so the peopic in the brickyard. Nationaiitics seemed, by some instinctive understanding, 10 have kept together. Under the prickyard sheds were & num- ber of irish famulics destivute indecd. I did not see one who bad saved as wuch as a quilt or a stove, Everything gone, and no wonsy leit to buy a loaf of bread, eveu if there was any bread to be bought. I approached one poor woman who, with her young dauguter, was sitting disconsolate, their backs inst agall pile of bricks. ‘the girl’ hands were burned and oblackened, and the mother had wrapped them im some she had picked up by the roadside, and irty rags there the poor creatures sat alone in their desola- ton, The mother’s cyes were red and swotien from heat and smoke; yet, in face of ail their woe, they both angwered cheerfully wnen I addressed them, lfound that they had met with a further calamut in the loss of thei husvand and father, ‘Yes,’? said she-—her name was McBurncy—*Patrick and myself veat off the flames as long as we could, and poor Mary, here, she worked as hard as any Of us; bus i% Was ‘no use, So true aa I tell you, si, the flames came upon us guicker than a rallroad train, and myself and Mary started out Division street, and Patrjck, poor mi: went into the house to get a few dollars he hi saved irom working on the docks, and—I never saw him more.’ And then, as iho full measure of thelr natura? griefs burst with all its force upon their minds, they fell tosoboing as if thew hearts would break, When they had become more quiet I made arrangements to have them taken to a neigh. boring church, left them and continued my recon- nowsance, Although the rain had ina great mea- sure subdued the ames, there re places Where tne fire was blazing as oprightly as ever, and I wended my foutsteps in the direction of Madison street bridge and crossed thence to the South side. Since 1 had left that division im the morning the fire had extenged further south, even a8 iar as Harrison street; and, { must say, as I looked upon the ruin on Wabash and Michigan aveoues—tne destraction of the beautiful houses that once adorued those noble ponlevards—tears came jn my eyes. Nor was | alone. A group of homeless people were sitting on 4 box weeping as a their hearts would break, One young lady was dressed very elegunuly—the first dress she had snatched up when chad her home torever. No diamonds or other jewelry adorned her person, but I have @ suspicion thai sne had saved her jewelry. ‘Toere she sat on a dry gvods box, @ picture of mute despair. ‘ney told me her brother bad been burned to death. it seems io was a lawyer, having been adimitied to the bar only two years since, and the two being orphans lived togeiner, He had been very successful in his practice and had purchased a beautiful home, and they were living very happily wien this fell biow came to crush her tothe ground, He, like many others, had returned to save something, aud, as supposed, perished before he could escape. 3 was the story 1n brief, and the desolate girl, in o stupid languor, utterly crasied by ber double loss, ‘was indeed a piciure sad to Jook upou. EVEN AS [ LOOKED, her brother, who bad escaped, and had been vainly searching {or his sister, appeared upon the Bceue. As he emerged in full view of the group be gave s joyful ery, sprang forward and ctasped her to his orgs Fires simply looked Up, Not al all surprised, aud said, “Please don’t hart me, I didn’t doit. All the houses were burned, and our house was une of tha lush. Don't take me away, please don’t.” “Why, darling, 1t 18 I—your brother James, Don’t you know me?’ sald the agonized brother. “No; James is dead, Oh! dead, dead, dead! He Went back after some papers, and be is burned hke luis papers. Poor, darling James‘ Does the truth dawn upon wie reader? The girs reason bad been dethroned by her great sorrows. [ turned away, utlerly bowed dowu by the great sut- ferings Lhad geen and the evidences of destruction on every nand. THOUSANDS OF TROVE were now berg their several Ways thi h the ruins. Great walis would (ail with « crash, sending ciouds of dast in every direction. An express Wagon, loaded witn Curiosity seekers, with all tts ving freight, Was crnshed to atows by a wall falling on the corner of Lake and State strects. When the bodies were revovered they were ternpbly charred and wangicd. No hope of recog- miuon there, One pedy was crusted ito another, and ull mingled together hike 60 much blackened pulp. After this terrible ex- ampie the crowd were more careful tor a time, bus curiosity 18 sometimes More powerlul than the in- stinct of seif-preservation, and tn less than an hour afterwards 1 saw people ia just as close proximity to these dangerous walls as they could possibly get without touchlag them. On the corner of Lake and Clare streets THE BLACKENED CORPSE Of a porter, belonging to one of the large houses in that jocality, was stretcned in the ashes. There was about ove square inch of hair.leit on his head; no hands; nothing but shrivelled stumps where the feet had been, and the muscles of the pody twisted in all sorts of shapes. Two little hules in the skull where the eyes had shoue remained, And this was all of his poor body. THE NIGHT OF HORROR closed at last, The faint gray of carly dawn was struggling into existence, and in an hour we hant Of aay had returned to slow to its tabanitants pot the panorama, but the horrible reality of Chicago's utter, desolate ruin. When this narrative is finisned | would be spared tne recollection of the scenes of moarniug, the gualling of stout-bearted merchants, the supplications and tears of the widowed and fatheriess that in their profusion cumbered the very air, tie demoralizing tfuences and bitter, bitter ‘sorrows that were witnessed ou ‘hat long, long day, THE SECOND DAY. as [have remarked, the streets, or what tas left of tnem, were crowded at an early hour with hopeipssly ruined merchants, curtusity seekers, and people wuo had been burned ont of hoase and home, together with a large number of people who bad arrived by the early morning trains, im wagons, carriages, o horseback aud on foot, thou- sands and thousands. and the number constantly increasing, For & raoderate (%) consderation—-$5 50 an hour-—i secured & horse, and, having pariaken of @ hearty. break lass of pie alld MK, i resumed my tonr of inspection, Avis neecles# to say anything Mrther of the deso- lation everywhere, Your readers cangut conceive the whole trath, Let them imawil space from the HERALD office east and west to the j porta aad Bast Rivers and north tv Canal sirevt a | Tass Of burning Tuins Kare walle im some | places, a chimuey fy anotner locality, barntog } heap? of anthravite coal, half buried safes, rade signe painted on pine boards to announce the mew } headquaners of ruined merchants; special police- | stzht. Mercnants of former weaith bad hangtag to ‘aiming rcom Windows and street railings their ; tuen, armed with sticks, clubs, guns, ries. pistols and pieces of board; heart-broken women, accom panied by thelr dasbands; younz gis and boys, soldiers and citizens, oarrymg tb every direction: merchants digging Wa ihe Mass of brick wad dusi for burled «= safes--und) they) form =a fame fdea of the excitement snd te scenes thar prevaued in Chicago on thal fatal Tuesday | morning. Proceeding up La Satlo aireer, a great; ‘Wall soll, ane nearly buried @ Mass of people in lis yuins. In attempting to escape my horse's feet ne came entangled tu aor of telegraph wire, and, m | ‘the piindtuy shower Of dust gud ashes 1 wae obliged , to dismonnt and release tm, thea inte tae Conrt | Honxe yard, aud the walls of that great siructure swaying mm the wind, looking, for al | the world, Uke & great giant, — setppurted | on etter side by bts two alites—tho re, eontty coustructed wings, of Julies Biarble, But iat was oo time to iran suniies, snd J gal Joped acfoss the open space, an’) emerging into Clark siteet Was hailed hy kwo policemen who ha Deen stationed vere to keep people from running into danger. Fortun#icly f bad thought to secure pase from General Seeriian, ang J contronied them with this document: ARADQUATTERS, OIVIRFON OF THY MisfonTs. Paar tue bearer, Mt, ———, of the New Yorn fmna: By order of Lientenant General SUERIDA James 1, FRY, Aveiatant Adjutant Genorat. Fo ail Commaetiding Odieere United states Troops, Chi eagey TI, As Sheridan’s Word was law supreme at this jone- ture, 1 had no diMeuity In passing. Apropos of this incident, 1 think with @ amile of my request to General Sheridan personally to appoint me # aApecial aid that | mighs be facilitated ip wy progress dhyough he city, With @ laugh Re referred me to it they can, the | tne present they would occapy their residences— | ets Thad @ chance, whine passing the differen * Isiand and Pacific, Michigan Soathern wat alt bhe 70,000 peo- | General Fry, and tne above document explains the oe of the mterview. ‘Then my course took me SHERMAN HOUSE RUINS+ That noble structure, like iis fellows, was prone in the dust, and the memory only of its past grandeur remained as a guide to ‘the spectator, Tie pace where T had seen the crazy Jew break is ofice doors m with an axe on Monda! morning was crowded with spectators, and a greal heap of brick and stone columns, broken in hun- dreds of pieces, covered the sidewalk Where he lel]. Af his body has not alreaay been recovered work- men will come across it 10 afew days. In fact, bo investigations have been made as yet looking to tho recovery of dea’ bodies, It 18 only by accident that the blackened trunks of humanity have been found ‘thus far. LAKk STREMT A MASS OF RUINS. As my investigation proceeded up Clark street and around into Lake street it seemed as If each succecding ruin was worse than thas I had just lett, The great retail dry goods honses, Wheeler & W1l- po Srcree RS ren the pore and fin 1 chine agencies, atc monte’s statonery warehouse, and turther down towards the lake the immense wholesale concerns; iron and stone buildings on both siues of the street from Wells street to the lake—seven long squarea— all, ail a common ruin. THE TREMONT HOUSE, the Sherman's great rival, situated corner Lake and Dearborn, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad’s nead- quarters, one of the finest beaaings on Dearbon street, buried ina vommon grave. But why muill- py, Instances or go into details when everything shared @ common fate? THE TRIBUNE BUILDING, above all others in Chicago, was ded as ab- solutely freproof, and even after the fire began Mr. 3, Medill, of that concern, having been awakened, turned over apa went to sleep, regarding as pre- posterous the idea that that building could burn, In auother hour he just made out to escape with his ie, together with some other atracii¢s of tho tribune. twas rumored that some two hondred Beanie. deeming the builuing 3aie, had crewded into it during the tire, and had perished when it fell in. This rumor I believe to be without foundation, It may be that people did go in there, but they cer- tainly had suficient and timely warning. LEP IT GO ON RECORD that @ number of leading citizens, among whom Were the Mayor, RK. B. Mason, John V. Farwell, George M. Pullman, Mr. Field, of Field, Leiter & Go.; General Hotchkisa, James H. Bowen, Mation D. Ogden, General Maun and many others whose mames are favorably known the country over, or- ganized at once a system of RELIEF AND PROTECTION, With headquarters in the Methodist churen, corner of Wabash avenue and Harrison street. 1 hap- pened to be present atthe first meeting, and am most happy to bear testimony to the cheeriumess and ability displayed by cach and every gentie- Man present. Sub-committees were organized and assigned w different portions of the unburnt district of the city, Immediate and general relief was the object aimed at, and to feed 100,000 people was the work marked out for these committces. Headquarters of relief were estabitshed in the Con: Wional church, corner West Washington and Ann streets, West division, and all the churches in that locality and the remaining church edifices on the south side. ‘fhe remaining public schoo, lyoe- un byes and places of worsnip var Cel open for a comman Durpose—viz., to adord mame: diate shelter and vibe NOTICES AND PROCLAMATIONS were tssued—proclamations calling on ail to aid In the good work—nolices of the whereapouts of tho dierent headquarters and places of reiief, THE STORES AND PROVISIONS from different cities—Detroit, Clactauati, Louisville, Aurora, Quincy, Jacksonville, Bloomington, Du- buque and other cities—were pourlag in on regular and special lightning freight trains, wagons and teams were Lmpressed, and TUR DISTRIBUTION BEAAN; and in these relief headquarters ceutred the tter- est of the day. I first went to the Cougregational church, the temporary headquarter of Mayor Mason. AT LEAST FIVIERN THOUSAND were struggling and crowding up to the three en- trances for adinission, Woinen and young girl: old men, boys, chuidren, of every age and batio ality, were for saustying the demanus of Special policemen tried to preserve orc ‘the crowd kept surging in and the distribution con. | tinued. How voraciously they ate! One would take @ plece of bread aud cheese and another a piece of meat and rush to one side and fall to with a wil. Coffee had beeu provided, and the ladies of the West titvision—-God biess them !|—superintended the distribution of clotning and eatavies to thew own sex. In atarge class room in the basement a great, oh! such @ splendid heap of good, warm clothing waa piled up to the wail, and miun and boy could walk i9 and take just what they necded. Chrisuan charity did not af_lx a price mark to any- thing there, bat everything Was free as water. When hunger had been satisfied and the body re- clothed the thanktul hearts would show their feel- ings in swimming eyes. Such expressious as “God biess Louisville” “Keep and preserve Cincin- nati forever and ever!” “s8ravo, betrote!” ‘Hur- rah for our sister, New York, aud her milion of dol- lars in one aay! “Speea Fisk’s lightning train.” and like phrases, and then utteriy exhausted by the labors aud sorrows of the pasi thirty-#1x hours, tired nature succumbed. On the floor, just ont of the line, wo- meo and children, with hair dishevelled and bodies half dreseed, were laid, sound asleep, forgetful for the ume of their sorrows and the blank future, Some women took the opportunity to nursd their babies. No false modesty tutervened now. sustenance of life was the lirst great care. Kegulay and Voiunteer officers were mixed together, torget- fal of the jeatousies that usually obtain between them, and orderlies were hurrying to aud iro, Up ; stairs tne front entrauce was used as an office for THE ISSUING OF PARSES. Having flied their baskets with provisions the+ crowd, with very few exveptions, hurried aronua The | lady of Detrots said to me, ‘There's one consolation, the poopie of Cnicago Nave good warm nights now.” [t sounded to me as a very ingenious dit of farcasm—as if Cmaps people could have a single consolation to cheer them after the disaster that bas befalien them. Whe. I picked my Way through these silent rulos on Tuesday myght T began two feel that there was, indeed, some consolation in the fact that (hese suffering people were not in the midut of winter. In the very inidst of their awful calamity they are inclined to wink that te | world never saw tts equal in horrors, But @ little | calm reflection wiil prove how fcarfal-—vevond be- Nef even—must have been the sufferings in that city that felt the evil of Napoleon's presence. Lost in these musmgs f did not notice that we had reached the landoiph street bridge. My horse seemed to know better where to go than I did. J crossed the bridge, and, gaining the west side, was soon made aware of the truth of the reported outrages that were hourly occurring in that division ot the city, Near the cor- ner of Jefferson and Randolph strects 13 a groggery of the worst description. und this door were about a dozen as 1l-looking bummers as { had ever seen, and @1 unfortunate Jew appearing on the scene with a package in lis hanas was immediately marked as thew prey. ‘They did not address any request to him, as the more polished age be ie but one of them walked up to im and deliberately knocked him down and two others held him while another gagged him. rified nis pockets, and, finding nothing of vate, kicked him into the gutter, wille the first bully proceeded to open bed eprreyy and divide the “swag.” Three watches some greenbacks re- warded them for their pains, The watches were “serabvled”? for and the money equally and honest- ly (?) divided. ‘The Israetite was then suffered to proceed witn this parting injunction:—‘Look a’ here, you ook-nosed, pork-packing son of a b—; you hear me--l’m a talkin’ now; you git!’ He got, aud #0 did J, as fast as the horse could get along. 1 arrived in Madison street in time to hear of another outrage, whose details I cannot repeat tn these colnmns. Suffice it that a man. in protect- ing _ hia daughter from the beastly assaulis of a crowd of rou.hs, was beaten and cut in the most horrible manner and turown into the street for dead, and had just been taken in by some netgh- bors,when I arrived. Fortunately the vile dogs did not succeed in their designs op the young lady. She escaped through her father’s back yard inw the house of a ueignbor. POLICEMEN WERR OF NO AVAIL. Althougn there were three present when the as- sault wok place, they dared not interfere, Certain death awaited them if they had, 1 continued on my journey saddened, and, 10 tell the truth, pretty badly scared. Of course it woulda be “love's labor lost’ for a thief to go ‘through a@ reporter, but they do not as 4 general thing stop to think what or who @ mau is, THE RUINS ON THE NORTH S1DB were still smouldering, and an occasional jet of flame wonld shoot up trom some cellar, now the grave of a house, and Ught up with distinctness surrounding objects. From tweive to tilteen thousand tons of coal were burning near the Madison street bridge, and this the At up the whole surrounding piles of ruins, and tho heaveus were bright with the reflection in every di- rection, ‘The rained lamp posts I did not musa, nor did L find occasion 16 sigh for the cheering little ray Of light that is emitted from the glass top, soth horse aud rider were pretty well tired out from hav- ing been on tie go through the day, and I suffered Iny Pegasus to loiter at will while Ltook meatal Loves Of the ruiu on every hand, FIFTY CHURCH RUIN3 and over [ counted on that melancholy pilgrimage, The water works tower, unscathed by the fire, stood alone in its awiul grandeur, a grim, gray sentinel over the trophies of the Fire King. Schools, catine- drals and institutions of learning and charity pre- sented bare walls or heaps of brick and stone to UI eye of the spectator, mute witnesses of glorious careers Closed at a le moment, Happy homes desolated, and their owners bankrupt, oceupytog twetr plicasare resort, alas! @ pleasure resort no longer, bat a scene of mourning, the memory of which shall send & shuduer through tue frames of Mbuny aud many LuoUsands yet co come. MY JOURNEY PINALLY BNDED, And [ once ore stood within the bounas of Lincola Park. ‘The scéne liad changed somewhat ly twenty- four hours, A great mauy people had left, yeu others had taken their piaces; people trom the open space near Division strect, thinking there was more convert to be ovtained tu this park, had sur while others flocked to the churches an There was stil much suflering anu Jameniation to be seen and heard, but thank God te cravings of appetite had nm satistied, and that Was one Jess pang. The were sull groauing heiplessly ou their straw pallets, yet kind and ministering angels, womeu—bdiessed be thelr memories for evermore — forgot their own suifertags in the tortures of the sick and helpless, and were doing everything in their power to miligaic the pain of those so badiy in need Ot comiori and immediate help, besides, some medical suppiies bad been ob- talued and many nad improved. How many wili be hurcied to their deaths by this awfal thirty-six hours, and how many more have laid the founda- Lion for discase that will terminate their eartuly ex- istence, we will procenty bever Know, Rude coucles had been erected during the day, and many were sleeping a dreamievs sieep, Inuuced by the awlul perils aud sullering of the day previous. NO COMPLAINTS WERE HEARD, Hope for the future siirred within every ucart The prompt response of the whole country had niicd ali aearts with gratefut emotions. If on@-huli the blessings called cown on New York, and all cities and towns in America that have come jorward with nancial and over aid ta this crisis, are bestowed, we shali be a happy people indeed. in my conver- sations with many gentiemen I could tut notice the Pluck—that pluck that has made chicago great—inanifested by all. = Sait one 0 them:--“With the blessing = uf = Got and Western pluck we will revuild this city in tive years.’ Ailough the vlessmg of God is necessary to this cutrance and awaited their turn. The ting ‘was a doudie one and extended the whole square, | and the ceatre of the street was comoictely blocked, and vehicles were required to go around the ov ‘en Clerks Were engaged i issuing passes ‘The folowing 18 a copy > nrearscaenornes ne nese te @rerewes neces see 2 ree RAILROAD PASS, 3 3 HEADQUARTERS GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE, | = . CHICAGO, Oct. 12, 18% 3 3 o- Raltroad pass ~~, # suiterer by’ the latez D anmmne, 3 fit ORRIN EF. MOORE, = 3 Ohairman Kelief Committee. 3 2 * Attest—#. B. Harcu, Secretary. Gee nerese ner eee nentt OUP tO HE THE OOSE 2008 16 tb 1b bee) All day long the crowd surged in and out; all day Jong the churches in the city—those remaining standing—were witnessing like scenes; all (lay lone hat blessed charity that Christ preached was being exemplified, and the suffering thousands were assured that they were uot forgotten. The sceno has not changed. Even pow the crowd is as great aud the supply of provisions 1s as generous, moncy and victuals come rolling tn by thousands of dollars, and train after train discharges its precious freight and returns for more, Many faces in the crowd indicated refinement and culture, and the uainty | white hand of petted beauties carried a provision | basket side by Aide with the verlest scum of tne city. Tne crowding was unnotic ‘The one sentiment, | “Give us food or we perish,” was uppermost in every mind, and I could ont notice what a leveiler of distincnons the great calamity nas been, The shrill voice of the newsboy outside—hashed only jor @ day—crying “THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ONLY FIFTY CENTS 1? was beard, and a rush was made Lo learn the extent: of the calamity. Those who could raise the amount paid i cheerfally, and divided their news by read- ing alond to the auxious, swaying crowd. THE MERCHANTS WERE RECOVERING in a measure from the effect of tietr losses—that ts, they were recovering menially, aud began to think of some plans lor the tuture, A meeting was calied, and some tyenty-live gentlemen were got togetl at the residence of Air. Ayer, of Hall, Ayer & Co., irom merchants formerly occupying that twme brick balding near the Union depot. No resolutions of condolence were adopted uow, bat business was talked from the start. ‘They gol together around @ dining table in’ Sir, Ayer's dining room and there talked of what they should | do for the future. Jonna V. Farwell said he pro. posed to recommence business. One more und | than Mr. Farweil said, “How will you rebuild with- ont mones*? “Don’t fear about that,” was the reply. ‘e Will get all the money and creaic | Necessar, These were inspiring words. Kield, j Sitter & and many of the jeading firms of the i ciy Mmonnced thetr intention to revaild also. For { i | ten j is out io the sate conclusion of all human enterprise J thought J detected the greatest siress on “Wes! pluck” when the above remark w: nade, Becoming ured of the saddening scene 1 re- mounted and took my departure fur the soathera clty— that part antonched by the tire-—and arrived @t my hoiel at six o’clock, Ured ont, B VUTURE OF CHIC, will ve brighter than its past. The more hopeful ones say they will reconstract it tn three years, but five, possibly more, will be required to redeem its former grandeur. its prestige bas not ncen loxni— that will always remain. THE TOTAL LOSSES BY THE FIRE, although not sv large as at rst reported, will prob- abiy reach in the neighborhood of one hun ana sixty-eight miiilons of dollars, and all occasioned by the stupidity of some lunatic who took a kero- sene lamp mito & barn to see to milk his cow, cow kicked it over, Which, bursung, set the barn on fire, The rest [ have endeavored to tell {rom day to A PICTURE OF DESOLATION. The Spirits of the PeopleTitles—Kailroad Assuult—Hew the Castom House Came to Barn. CHtcado, Oot. 14, 1 The awful disaster that has swept over this city has levejled all alike. No Communism or agrartan- ism, no combination of incendiary Internatsonals, coud so sitike down in @ day wt interests, ali weaith to the dead level of zero, We must begin again, and 1618 as the Unleago Most says, <The best man ip Chicago to-day is he who bas the most pluck.” x) It were folly to deny that there ts in the breasts of our people wide-spread and deep-seated alarm and apprehension tor the near future, Why should Were not be? Is itnot inevitable + One-third of the wealth has been inciuded in this awful scourge. ‘They who were millionnaires a weok ago are penniless toeday. Said Cotter Palmer yester- day, “Last week J thought } millions; to-day ! am Deggur-- worse tian @ beggar, for 4 beggar oF debt.” Literally ail of the vasiness part of the eity 18 swept away. tf New York were a nay, those who bad one jeft--aud would so angounen by | board signs hung at the window. | ON WEONESDAY WORVING Wabash aud Michigan avenues presented o strange | names and former business, with the furiner an- nowncemens that they wonld be glad to see their old custoluers, All the banks did the same. One drm— Chaves P. Kellogg & Co.—saved put one coat out of an immense stock of their wholesale department. ‘This coat was hanging on the gate with the an nonneement attached, "No goods eoid at retail.” KAVING THB OLrY. in making » seeoud coar Chrough the burned ats TauWay stations tuat were left standing, to see tie fruits of giving free railroad tickets to sufferers, Every roguiar train and specials were crowde their utinostcapnoity, The Chicago und Nortiwest« ern seetued Lo ine to be doing the buik of transporta tion, prodably from the Tacé of itm waving th uttereus points of departnre from the city: yet ul Mighigan Central, Unots Central, Ohieago, koe great lines Were running fxtra trains: yer ma two days After} Tatied 'o notice any diminution of Ue shougands thal crow ted aud stilt crowd the atreets, On Tuesday nigh) | made & SECOND ORAND TOUR THRQUOH TAK REINS, ' starting from the corner of Twenty-seoond street and Wanash avenne at elghr ov’clock and reaching Lincoln Park at one A. MW, Tho acene Was awfully grand. My mind insensidiy ran back fo the days of Moscow, and I tried to imagine what the suffering would be here with a Ruswen winter to add new pangs, alt the ruing ADIN ae bright ap NOVDAAY Huder w sear, Cold Winter moon, A | dered landmarks of the s the Bartezy to Union Park, and from river to river, it Would noi lose tore of wealth, relatively to its magnitude and 1s surroundings, than Chicago nas lost to-day. Nivety newspapers and periovicais, Reventy schools, jifty-ilve churebes, twenty banks, two hundred hotels-—these are onty the well-remem- sourge. Chicago can never recover what sne has lest, She cannot any longer deride St. Loula, despise Cincinnati or measure strength even with iittle Milwaokee, Sho 1s yet rich to opportnuity. We here stil de. Hieve that the commerce that traverses tie Conti- nent most swing around the Jower end ot Lake Michigan, and that Chicago must arise agam, and that instantly, to accommodate tt. PLUCK AND CHRERFOLNESS, ‘There is pinek here, a strong reserve of i, and a courggeots oullook on Me future; but tt is say. dued, exceptim the case of a few platonists who wou themselves above the sensoriam and scorn to yield to any toned of pain, The telegrapiiers may say | what they please about the jovial light-bearwdness of the people; J cannot find that article in many of ‘the herter class of nea, Most of them have witat the Hoston Yaukee cialis “grit, and they took fear. Jessiy whead anid say, “OR, ves; some time Chicago wWul come rigo! side up again.’ jut they know weil epongh that alter all the Insurance policies tave been settied up ani ali the benevolent copimbulions pai in Ue city wi stil be one hundred miillen dollars Dehind; and they beleve that there are at least thirty thonsand peopie, who must be supported ail winter by charity, and they find if diMeuit to geo the cloud ip such # position that it will spore a way, giitedge. They know that before (hey see the Qaylght they must Aight a good deal of darkness. There 14 a cluy of reckless young fellows sporting Op at Sherian’s heacquarters, wil no Tamilies— wt least poe that they bave to BupvEt—WwhY bave city In area and more than one-half mn tangibie } was worth | | can hardy bo recogmzed. caught in a tempest of fire and lald in ashes from | organized as the “Fellows of the Ancient Order of Job's Turkey ;’? but they are generally chaps who had nothing to loge and now brag about having lost it, I tell you this city of Chicago at this time is enough to cur of even Mark Tapley in the midat of his cachinnating career. If ue had encoun tered this present Chicago ow his way to Eden be woutdn’t have thonght it jolly at au, but would have turned his steps again toward tho fast anchored isle, Inclading Micawber Jonas v. There wre, of course, men here who cad smile yer, and evem joke betimes but ther are mot overrun with superfaoi levity, and they think the immediate future presente seme grave problems to solve. They feci that 1% will take @ good many years to creep back to last week’s Vane wage ground, but they are resolved to attain it. 418aw a iman on Monday night looking intently and seriously at his block of five story stores om Water street, then writhing and roaring m the flames, I knew tum and watched him. His gaze was riveted. 1 pitied nim heartily, for | judged ‘thas he was on the verge of despair. At last i ven- tured to approach and break nis reverie, “Wr Blake, What are you thinking of?” saudi, “Ah—ni? said he, with a souie, “Il Was Winking that the rate must be catcning hell!” I met another friend on ‘Tuesday walk- ing thoughtfully arouaud with a piece of lead pe. As I approached and pt him he stoppeg, sapped the lead pipe down ons brick wall till it mashed fat, and then said, that pipe’s all I’ve got in the world; but I bs ord again to-morrow.” I met a man on the a of i tire who had lost first his store and thea nand- some residence on Michigan aveaue. He was lug. ging around @ marble mantie, wit the Beavy sides ateached. He laugned as he saw me, and remarked, “That’ there 15 now; Ym going to see tf I can’t tind another and build a house to 1? Ove more:—It was but yesterday that Lsaw Blakely, editor of the Hvenng fst, Ligon | ‘What around in front of the ruina of the office. He up @ brick facetiousiy and spat upon it for?” I asked. ‘seeing whether they're cool enough to clear out and build over again,’ was the reply, Tuis reveals all of the spirit of cheerfulness there is, The mirth is rather forced; there Is plenty of pluck, but tt has @ solid substratum of KerioUs meditation. THE TRIAL OP TITLES. ‘The telegraph has already intormed the country that the county records were utterly coasumed in the Court House. No original record—indeed, ne legal record of sort—now remains in the city. any ‘Nites of all the lots in the burnt district are adriis. ‘fhe contest between the numerous cialmants can- not be long delayed, and the litigation may last # century. . Lsee no possible way out of this jungle of chaos except for the Legislature, which will meet in pectal session Immediately, to pass an act de ring that the abstract books Of the abstracs makers and conveyancers shall be received a8 eyiitence of ownership and title, except in case of counter proof inan original deed, Of these it i# known that Chase Brothers and Hardy & Paadeloup, anccessors to Shortale & Hoard, saved their boos, aud the Legislature cannot do & wiser thing than te confirm ties ay shown by these absiracts, They do aot indicate the most delicate shaues of differ: ence as conyeyed in language, but they*show all special defects and pecuilar difficuity. They ure near enough correct for ail a purposes; at any rae there now nothing vetter, It is probable that the six or seven city surveyors who have saved their tield books Gam also add some valuable evidence, as tiey have, at one time or aaother, measured and conveyed mucb of the property of the purned district, The remam- ing diticuity in the watter 1s that, by some preter- natural clumsiness ti the original biacksmith, tha cnains at first used Were a fractioa too long, 30 that ail recent and present measures have had to be modified to accommodate the securate measurement to tue erroneous one. But perhapy ail these diculwies Will In ime be adjusted without adding to the preseat disaster @ tnirty years’ war of Wi THE TATLROAD QUESTION. Now that the city bas burned up, and most of the railroad depots and much of the rolhiug stock and railroad property Mave perished, too, the old war between the city and the compantea scems in danger of springing up flercer than ever. ihe companies have Tought to thrust thelr tracks into the vei eart of tue city; the city has fought, thus far unsueeesslully, to Keep them permaneatly out, The Jimois Central, one of the weattuest companies in the Umioa, nas succeeded tn planting its depot and the depots of the Michi. gan Cenwral abd the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, u8 accessories, at the foot of Lake street- Teeenily the richest and most importaut sirees in the etty—and to confiscate for its own use and bebool an iumense strip along the lake front, twenty rods wide and five mites jong, tuat really belonged to the public. The roud has, moreover, perverted its Jranchise by pustuns this laud out Into the lake, by industmiously Miling in, aad has takea possexsion of & large area in the harbor on some highwayman’a plea. ‘The city contested the aggres- sion. Now that all is burned out it ts proy by some of our most prominent citizens that two large depots be ‘tablished, one on the north and the otner on the south of the city, distant from each other say eight miles tua directive; that connection with the central streets be made by street car, carriave or otner yelicie, and that through trains be uansterred from one depot to the other on & set Of tracks Making a semi-circular detour around the city westward, along the line ot the new boulevard, all Eastern, Southern and Southwestern rovds to convergs a6 Lhe southerp depot; all Northwestern trains at the other, Ver contra, the railroads have seized the oppor- tunity of the great calamity to conspire for tne possession of same of the unoccupied land im the very centre of the city, near tie Court House. The roads have more mouey than the city has, and they vealculate on the ieeblenesy of the land owners and their failure to resis. So tev are now elaborating adcheme for the monopoly of several acres in the choicest business centre of the city for the snort of uheir wiutonic locomotives and the ratue of their incessant trains. The sick city 1s Tousing to meet and grapple with this giant monopoly, and its demands in this new apd audacious form will be resisted to the end. TO THE CENTRE. There is talk on the part of some of our citizens of giving up the old centre for an Immense park, or something ol the sort, and estavlish new centres in the South division, at Twefth street, and in the t+ ut Canal street. The city centres are not changed vy resolution or tue Whim of the inbab- ftants. itation will assert itself. ‘Tue people of tls cl nny more keep away from the old cen- tre—the naturat centre—than they can get a chance to see the other side of the moon. The centripetal force ts ever active aad powerful; it cannot be over- come, Already the 7r/dune Company has resolved to re- butd ou the old site; the Custom House is to be reynvenated; the county has resolved to recon- struct the Conrt House, and all affairs are gravitet- ing back, Commerce and cats are sond of familiar paunts, a PuOTOGrAPIt ofthe present scenes In the burned district, could they be ecomprenended in a single camera would present the moat start series of ruined vistas ta be seen out of Egypt. The tamed Nicoigon pave- ment, of which tere were 309 miles down io Chicago, is $0 burned as to quite ruined. The fire followed and ate out the seams of Lar, Uil nothing is ielt except @ violent sniccession of hubs, vadiy adapted to either sole or wagon wheel. There are tron gates that lead to nowhere; stone siairways thas empty into the iath- omless sky; gasand water pipes im all stages of contortion, that Hil Lue smoking rains With myilious of wrilhing repules, THK COURT HOUSK, hadiy rent and sirained, sul stands amid the wreck around. “Justice”? flaunts itself conspreu- } ousiy on the ice. Partor the Triovne Block is Crosby's, the Chamber of Lom the Sherman, tie Tremont, w now are thet plasier pilasters and dainty frescoes, and great blocks of stone and marbie built ft all dime! Nothing ts left but heaps of aud discolored jmasonry, strewn wuckly With glass molten into a Tiousand fantaste forms, and tron reddened and bent with fire, ‘The streets The lamp posts were wrenen nd bent our of shape. There are no more sidewaiks ‘The tire has eaten the composi- uon out of the seams of the roadway and honey. comped the wooden blocks, Tue rasis of the street car lines are uD AND YELLOW, ‘and in some places lifted a couple of feet {nto the air by the expansion caused by the intense beat, The roudwag liseifuniuiates lke asea, bere & bollow and toere a Nil}, The road, tive or ten (cet above the level of the cellars around, looks like 2 path cat through a borned and biackened swamp, Toe ryure filed with snapeless rains, weenuce curt pale blue wisps oc smoke. Here } u were laborionsiy prying out @ sale, | Ulits oraamention gone, battered aad reddened, | but staneh w Its unst. On Dearborn sircet one gen- | {leman would insist ‘on opentag oid sale while it 1 was yet bof, fo reheve his anxiety, despite the warn Ing of the mechanics present, A siedge was pro. cored, the Mages knocked oway and a crowbar pr tie doors open, Vor a imoment the papers In the iaterior could be seen unharmed, but Bo sooner had Me air reached them than there waa o raat sig FLAS OF PLAN and puff of smoke. and the books and panera had ished inte air. hy tas ruins ol? ten and women, begrimed yith sinoke and white With dust, were groping tor jnailitarious treasures, fatiroas, sofa Yao 4 pollers, curry comin, all sorts of Odds and e ne nl gat of shape. ora crests were crowded with spectators, some drawn by Mle curiosity, some Seeking whore their Douses had ve some asking Vainly for news of their friends. cold mau Was siting cisconsolate | av the corner of La Salle and Washingtou streets, ining over tne rans ike an old Jew over the piation or derusaieul, "Poor Ciicago !? was al sould BOY. ‘rhe churches have suffered jvast. Thetr bravery of glass and caryug 1s gone, aud there are iy ehasias tor shapely Ariels and arches, but the wi are almost almost ali standing, and rebmiding wit | be pos The factories have suifered a great deal Tana thety shapeless chimneys stand \ anid heaps of Cuvdish and shattered wi whi Took tur ali tue world I tique ruins of the Old World, were It uot that they lack the venerable soft- ness of outiine and are harsh and angular with Iresh ughnesa. Of the hundreds and thousands of JouseR occupted as residences ABSOLUTELY NOTHING | | remains. Jo fre bas shaken their very founda. tons ILO ps of flaky stone and disintegrated prick, with hei svi Ciere a charred post. ybe yoadways ut she worth side, above Division