The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1871, Page 4

4 CHICAGO. Graphic Description of the Destruction of the City that Was. The Loss $475,000,000 and Two Hundred Lives. THE RED MARCH OF THE FLAMES, Mad People im a HEell of Fire. THIEVES AND MURDERERS. The Reign of Terror After the Ruin. CHILDBIRTH UNDZR CHILLY STARS OnTcAGO, Oct. 16, 1871. ‘The sun shines to-day on square miles of rained walls and rugged streets heaped with unsightly rubbish. A week ago to-day this same space smoked and famed with furious devastation, and only ten days ago it was covered with stately edl- ces which seemed built for eternity aud peopled with a hundred thousand souls who grew rich, and married and were given in marriage, even as men 8hall do on the eve of the Jast day ef fire and wrath, Chicago delenda est. Chicago is wiped out. ‘The story of its obliteration has been very fully told in the columns of the NEw YORK HERALD, and (he terrible picture presented with all the vigor and enterprise which marked the same HERALD’S description of @ similar, thougli less serious, catas- trophe at New York in 1835. I one had heart and time to moralize he might trace an analogy no less truthfal than interesting between those two great American institutions—Chicazo and the @eRaLp— the twin wonders of the time and the Continent. They are nearly of an age; the career of each has been marked by an enterprise and energy almost as boundless as the success which waited thereon; each has been the highest and most representative type of Americanism. Here the parallel ends. To- day Chicago lies in the dust and ashes of humilia- tion, and the HERALD lives to chronicle her agony. And as sure as the H&RALD has seen her rise, ber progress and her fall, so sure is the HERALD of 1835 or 1909 to see and record ner growth till she be- comes in population, in influeace and in trade the equal of New York. Sofull have your reports been that all that now remains for me to dois to give the statistics and figures which have not been published as yet; to cull from my notebooks and memory a few incidents of interest which may have escaped your attention, and finally to review the situation as it now exists, pnd, in so far as 1 can, forecast ihe future of the city. Statistics first, The fire originated on De Koven and Jefferson streets at thirty-two minutes past nine on Sunday evening, October 7, and terminated on the morning of Tuesday, October 9, in the house of Dr. Dyars. On tbe south side of the river one block was left standing—tne Lynn block, at Lake Bireet bridge. On tue north side one house—the residence of Mr, Mahlon D. Ogden, corner of North Dearborn street and Lafayette place—was left un- touched. The track of the fire was about three miles long by one and a half mile wide. The area covered wes about 2,680 acres; the houses burned numbered 21,000. There were reudered homeless or thrown out of employment 110,000, of whom 20,000 bo 30,009 nave left town and about 60,000 are tne re- tipients of public charity. The losses will probably foot up as follows:— On buildings....... On stocks and furnishing On personal property and furaiture «+ $75,090,000 Depreciation in real esiate ........ Loss on tail business (profits only). Cost of sustaining sugerers Oost of resumption ....... eee TOU Sieeoee) rp opadicoancs +¥ bes opscseboeaeOROn Ta all, the loss will foot up about $475,000,000, without including probable loss from suspension. fue insurance cannot yet be ascertained, but will Probably amount to about $52,000,090, of which from $39,090,009 to $49,007,000 will be paid. The number of bodies recovered thus sar is about ninety-five, but it is safe to conclude that 200 peopie met ther feath in the flames. The losses by thelt are vari- ously eslumazed at from $5,000,000 to $8,000, 000. The origin of the fire may be slated, as it will be historical, A Woman named Scully, residing on be Koven street, had a sick calf, and went out witt acandie to attend to its wants. The candle was overturned, and the fame set the loose hay on fire; the bullding of dry wood blazed up ina moment, and the fire spread so rapidly that tep houses were burning when the brigade reached the spot. The fire barnea in two columns—one between Clinton and Jefferson streets, the other between Clinton and Canal streets. The wind, which was very high, blew from the soutnwest, driving the @ames directly to the northeast, At the same time the fire ate into the wind both east and west, One column moved much more rapidly than the other. Their progress on the west side was checked by the burned district of Saturday’s fire. ‘They crossed the river in two places and struck across the south side in an air line, one column rushing fiercely forward, overpowering all resist- ance, the other spreading more slowly w the south end west, and being checked at Harrison street by blowing up houses. The progress due west was so Siow that though it was only midnight when the Names crossed Maison street. two blocks from the river, it was broad day ere those two blocks were burnea. On the north side the fire ran far more rapidly, the light wooden bulidings fairly melting away before it. It stopped only because there was nothing more t burn, Toe progress of the fire was marked by one pecu- liarity—it resembled a warlike advance and battle, The witid Cerried the embers and burning brands to & great distance, ané thas little skirmishes were always going on far in advance of the main body. ‘The advanced guard or light divisions foliowed these, aad Swept away the buildings which had re- atsted the flying sparks, but ieft the great blocks— thé Castom House, Sherman House, Post Ofice, Trt- oune building, &¢.—aimost unscathed, until the main body, travelling more slowly, came up and swept thes@ into utter nothingness. Thas toe sight ares lng grand. a mile u northw: malt 8 of smoke showed where the embers ad” slighted. few hundred yards nearer five or six ‘mali fires, at some distance from each other, had broken out, Behind these again came a long and unbroi line of flame, sweeping away everything light, ana behind this Was a confusion of smoke and fame burning nearer the ground, while here and there stood i) the stouter buildings, each a pyramid, like islanas of fire in a sea of fame and smoke, Jt was this that bamied the fire- men. They could never reach the outskirts of the fire. If they moved back and took a fresh position {ue fire went over their heads and flanked them. Of the scene, eloqueat as your reporters have been, you have as yet liad no adequate description; nor can J, slinough familiar. with ite pre- tend to paiot 1t so faltnfully as to enable your read- ers Lo see {cas it was, There are men living who saw the great tre in New York; many have seen Paris all ablaze; but these were nothing beside what may be calied the great fire of the world, ‘here were perhaps 159,090 or 200,000 people in the +treets, all shouling with excitement; the air was rent with the crash of tambling wails, the niss of water, (he ceaseless pant, pant of the engines, the explosion of ganpowder, the braying of tram- pet the flapping of the flames, tne roar of the wind ana the brazen clang of the great vel. There was fire everywhere. The sireets where the tar in the seams of ihe Nicolson p had caught fire were traversed wilh their faune, till they looked like St, Lawrence's grid- The sidewalks burned as rapidly as walk, The gutters in some places flooded with perro! or spiriia, and when the dames reached them @ simultaneous fash from one street corner to the next would show with the sud- denneas of af explosiva of gunpowder. The roofs of some houses were periectly covered wita fakes of fire thick as flakes of snow. Some «parkied once and went out, some burned without flame, but with spiteful tte puds of smoke; | NEW. YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTUBEK 20, 1871.—IRIPLE SHEEKr. qumera stowed =8 red. In_ others the fire would run along the eaves in &@ moment; in another breath it would burst out of every window and curl up from etther side, a with black smoke above the ridge pole, Ing. down some of the streets where the pulldings were lofty, aa on La Salle and Washiugton, two walls of could be Seen, actually arched over with a roofof flame. The win raved through the streets as through @ Vunnel, sucking up the flames and sending them round the corners and agatust detacied buildings FU. 4. Foroe which nothing | could with. id. The loiier blocky of solid stone stood the fre For a long time: then from widow after win- dow a crim: jet would spirt out, making festoons of fire from basement to roof, High over head a great pale golden red cloud rolied ita feecy billows, each over the other, away to the north and east. Sometimes a lower current drove a part of this fiery atmosphere back; then an aerial eddy was formed, wnich made the eye giddy to watch it, and at times a spire of ferce red Name and black smoke would tower up and melt away. rgeous canopy was starred with a myriad blacing sparks and large brends that hartied and rustied through ft. For miles out on the lake the foe bonfire was seen. The dogs for miles around bays at the unwonted light, and the as were roused to to crow, thinking It already day, through this awiu' scene bat one im: the eighteenth chapter of Revelations, wherein the great city, Babylon, is Fenrenenied. as belng de- stroyed, It required no great feat of imagination to recall that great city that lived deliciously and dealt in the merchandise of and silver, and fine Itnen, and purple, and crimson, ana odora, and fine flour, and sheep, and beasts, and wheat, and souls of men, and made rich ail who haa ships in the sea by reason of her oostlineas, and which was made desolate in one hour. The brute creation acted as tf the Last Day had come with ail its terrors, ‘The horses bit and reared and siruck Wildly with their hoofs, neighing with terror, or actually lay down in their harness, every muscle relaxed with horror, and foam fatitng from their mouths in showers, The dogs ran through the crowd sniffing anxiously at everybody's legs, barking excitedly, or at times sitting on their tails wo howl dismally and imauspictously. Cats, wild witn the wunwonted confusion, scurried over the roofs and dropped into the streets with arched spine and gigantic tal. The rats were ariven out by myriads from under the sidewalks and rubbed against meu’s ankics in the street, were trodden upon, shouted at, driven into the flames with vicious squeals, The most touching sound ln the whole fire was the human like scream from the poor hittle birds in @ bird fancier's sto:e when the flames caugnt it. And the peovie were all mad. The streets were packed densely, the fences and sidewalks crowded, These broke down and rolled their liviog freight in the aust, Where they were trampled upon by the thousands whoin blimd panics now surged madly towards the scene of action, then swayed as madly back. ‘Through the midst of these throngs poured # ceaseless stream of fugitives. Almost every one was bareheaded, many were bare- footed and ieft bloody marks on the dificult pave- ments. All wore ascared and anxious look. The women were lamenting loudly. Each carried a shapeless bundle over one arm and a baby in the other, while a couple of crying children clung at her skirts, to be swept away by some eddy of the crowd and to fill the air with pitiable shrieks. The men saved less than the women. Many were drunk with liquor, as weil as with excitement, and fought end shouted and danced in the streets, or indulged in ncrripie blasohemies or loud and Maud!in bemoanings of their losses. Some rushed up to the fre and nad to be torn away from it by main force, else they would have cast themselves headiong into the fames, The disreputable throngs which baunt Pacific avenue, Fourth avenue and kindred streets were out to plunder ana to riot. They smashed gias3 and broke open doors, aud, with grimy conntenances and blood) hands, fitted hituer und thither, @ ghastly legion ol tatterde. maiions, such as might have danced and howled around thetumbril that bore the Sixteenth Louts of France to the guillotine, Thad a view of tne fire from the roof 0° the lofty stable and warehouse of Messrs. J. V. ‘arwell & Co., which I shall never forget. eo Sulldings around us were low and siight, so that a roaring sheet of fire near to the ground lay beneath us. We could not see the folk in the street, but we could hear their tumult, and it was like looking down into the tery billows of hell rolling over the despair- Ing shriekings of the eternally lost. On the other side we could see the loiter buildings Lethe and notice by the _——— ht the faces of those in the DEEDS THAT SPEAK. New York Foots Up Nearly Three Millions for Chicago. Later Donations and Names of “the Contributors, Below will be found a list of ail contributions yea- terday made to the sufferers by the Chicago fire. Our citizens have done so nobly for this fund that they now naturally turn to the call from the victims of the fire that has made a barren waste of the homes of the hardy settlers on the shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron and saganaw Bay, many of whom are houseless and penniless, ADDITIONAL SUMS REPGRTED YESTERDAY MONEYS RECEIVED AT THE HERALD OFFICE. Boonent2 23 SSSSSESSSSS LES SSSeSesereres> eS tt tt tts et Subscriptions for the Sufferers of the Chicago Fire by Nolen & Steers’ Plaving Mill Estab- lishmeut, 125th Strect and Harlem River. William J, Joins bs 0 James Norton, 00 3 B. Lin 200 Willlam J. She; 200 Chris, Schmidt. 10 John Day... 50 James Lynch. 100 100 10 bo 50, 100 106 100 100 bo 50 bo lwo 100 6 40 woo 2 00 2 00 10 200 50 Charles Wetbert 100 Edward Leaning. 109 Car} Schuize 10 Franz Brown 200 William J. Beil 10 Henry Ostrande: 300 Joun Wilmoit.. 1” rge Sante bo John R, MeKenzie.. 500 John F, McKenzie. 100 Nolan & Steers. 50 00 Total Subscription te the Ciicage ferera Joinily with the Sufferers from Same Cause ia Wis- sireet, not their ies, There seemed to be | mulions of upturned faces, fuil of’ sharply expressed curiosity, fear, anguish, terror, as men will look at the last day. Further away were the wide sea of unburned roofs, and on the other side the storm-lashed lake lighted up for miles. So strong was the light that we could notice in bold relief men walking about a building, a branchman settling his helmet more comfortably on his head, the excited gestures of two men who were ‘Watciing the course Of the fire and signalling it to those below. The very air around us was on fire and fy blows of flame biotted out the stars, Ever and anon flocks of pigeons swept aime: imto the air, Novered in uncertamty fora minute, and then fell, daved aud suffocated, into the roating hell of fire, Such ts a faint picture of the great fire in Chicago. As S000 as Captain Hickey found that the Court Honse must go, atiempts to check the fire by biow- ing up houses having proved useless, he went to the iz county jaf in the basement and let all the prisoners | loose, Shese miserable wretches. tormented with a fear of bemg burned alive, were tugging desperatl; | atthe hot vars of their celis and Giltag the air wit sbriexs of terror, Poprecations that made the blood run cold and appeais for mercy froin Cod and man, As s00u a8 their doors were opened they rushed with loud yelts into the tumult witbout, and leapin, into a track laden with clothing which i gee al the time, cleared itin@ moment and fied away to plunder and destroy. Only five men were securely nandcuffed aiid marcbed away under a strong escort of police, These weré Siarderers irom whom tne rowd shrank in horror, mere em a clear pas- gageway even in that terrible time, The Court House was soon in flames. The walls Leid good @nd several times the fires on thé roof were extin- guished. Finally it was abandoned, the siriking appa- ratus 0! the big bell was started, and it thundered Out its despairing clangor lucessantly, till, as the hands of the clock pointed to ten minutes past three, the cupola heeled over, and wth a lurch bell, tower and clock sunk into the sea oi fire and crashed down into the raging depths. On the north side the march of the flames Was much more rapid, and the crowds in the streets even more miserable and distracted, The fire hung relentiessiy on their fly- ing traces. They were driven from square to all on geen all day. Some in their arms and rushed into the water. Others rocco Pi by. found no rest until ‘they were hidden im the sba‘es of Lincoln Park or were out on the inclement prairie. ‘here the; slept on Monday night, without fire, or shelter. Th tamuit had now given lace to an awful silence. Seventy thousand People were huddled together, the delicate ‘woman or tender child shivering beside the brawny | Fred Vatlin. laborer inured vo labor and exposure. The air of the night was rent with a low moan. Children were ciying for bread or for thetr parents, fainers were seeking their families, mothers, crazed with excitement, snrieked for their babies. The agonies of childbirth overtook some tn this hour, At Lin- coln Park three babies were born; one only sur- vived. One poor woman wrapped ber bedclothes around her aud crawied, with her baby, not a day old, to the door. Tney found ber there, dead, tne unconscious and naked child blindly seeking’ the cold breast. A gentleman in one of the noteis, whose wife was in the very pains or cnild- wrapped her in @ blanket ana bore ‘ay. The fire chased him closely, but red on. She hong inert upon jus shoulder, It was fully two miles from the hotel ere he could Jay down his purden in safety, vud then he saw that tue eyes were shut and the jaw had falien, and that Love had siruggied on so ravely with Death in its arms! Nor less pitiable was the sight next day, when thousands of miserable people took up their march throngh the encumbered streets between the smok- ing ruins towards the west side. ‘They were hag- gard with exhaustion, they shiverea with cold, they vottered from hunger. The skeleton babies that these women bore were too weak to utter their querulous wall, and lay limp upon their mothers’ shoulders, literally biue with cold, The men were hatiess, bootiess and sullen. On went the proces- sion Of famine and despair to the west side. The scenes ai the relief headquarters have already been graphically described in the HeRALD. Baader taan Sodom was the scene where, only Yorty-eight nours ago, poo « pompous ¢ity, | Oniy the Tribune building, the Court House, we jastom House, the First National Baak and shattered skeletons of the great, low hotels were standing. the other bul Wom melted away, The cellars were filed with enldering aad. unsightly he of rubbish, among whic! n And women Groping for old metal. The roadway was eacui red with débris, the sidewalks had tumoled into the vaults, the telegraph wires, curled and whit- ened, lay everrwhere and the street car ratls were bent into ecceatric shapes by the heat. People Could not tell one street from another at first. Imagine, if you can, the desolation. To do so you muat destroy in New York every newspaper omMce, every bank buliding, the Exchange and Board of Trade, half of the schools and churches, ail of the billiard halls, restaurants and saloons, all of the hotels, the Custom flouse, Post Oflice, City Hall and courts; the gas and water works, the theatres, the great wholesaie and retail stores, whether of dry —o groceries or jeweiry; the railroad ions, he commission nouses, the factories ang fof the dwelling houses, and then you can pretty fully realize our condit:on on Tnesd: In the presence of so much excttement and the absence of any reliable news the wildest rumors were afloat, an People on the south side were per- feotiy beside themselves with fear, The dead were multiplied into thousands; the fire was attributed to incendiaries, Forty people had been vurned in the Court House; incendiaries had been caught in the act and thrown into the fire: vigilance committees had lynched others; men wore dangling from lamp- jnnd everywhere; all the bank vaults had been urned out, the rest of the city was tobe burned at night, 6 boldest robbery was siill going on; organized gangs of thieves prowied througu the streets laden with plunder. The police were worn out and were worse than Useless, Citizen patrols of the most ferocious character were fring oi! pis- tols everywhere. Allan Pinkerton injudiciously in- cousin acd Michigan by the Employes of the St. Cloud Hotel, Coraer of Broadway Forty-second Street. i SSCSESSSLSSS SSSLSESSESESSE SSSes|esesese SssesssrseswwSeeeLezesysesss;e, br Paichols, Siete: frererete) rere) AO ROR Ce tee Ro comnts 656 50 85 00 W. H, Hunter... 200 Geo, W. Bloomfiela. ; pe 100 20 vbr 10 John Schaefer 100 Ki 100 100 M. O. Ruston. 10 =e Total... Recaplialation. Total yestertay.. Previously report Total HERALD account.............-816,913 50 = 33 3 Additioual Chamber of Commerce Contriba- tions. Mr. A. Low, Treasurer of the Chicago Relief Com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, reports the following additional subscriptions from three P, M. Ot October 18 to three P, M. October 19, 1871:— A. F. Peam & Co. -#100 Collection of Fourth Pres. Employes or A. F. byterian Chureb. ri peyiryneey A. Goettel & Co. John Lowitz & Go : John Jewiit & Sona First donation from’ New John Jewlit & Soni York and Sandy Hook | + 09 fo: Wisconsin and Miloul- gan sufferers. Pilots. We Lead Employes at John Je itt # Sous’ White Enlitte Nathat FROM TOX HARDWARE TRADE, TROUGH MR, A. BO WET- Ri Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co, Richard P. Bull, At’y3i, Sargent & Go. ‘Hart Manafaciuring Co. Branford Lock Co,, Thos. Kennedy, Presicent Hermann, Boker & Mary Wilson ‘Ann Kelly... Mery Henly Mary Quinn Edward Brazile 5.00 Thomas Kelly. ‘6 00 Matthew Cahalan 500 Fred Gona 100 Jerry O'Rei 100 Joha Kormac! 200 Patrick Barry 100 James Fowles 200 100 100 100 » 16 1 00 } o 0 800 10 100 80 200 10 1% 109 19 + 100 Fate Gordo 200 Eiien Darsey.. 50 Mary K inate} 50 Kate Muler 1 10 100 1w 1 1 1 ie scenes Were the same, only | M. Corral red. square d their children Thomas mento ems John Kelly . &. McKoran. Hull. egun. Mrs. Goodlet. emery ‘Michael Lynegn. John Shirney, Jule Ceulin Joba Edwards “$13 75 BE) ee oe icc ee See eb aa Total» cos. 000+ sp0d00e.v010 —O1 which there is for Chici Weber’s Piano Forte Manufactory Subscrip. tion. Albert Weber. Outo Uebele. g Auron Howe. Takob Fuchs. W. Gies. F. Ernst. Joun Herkeliy: . Wagner. 0.5. oe memes Eruat Schwabe. = me creased ‘the panic by @ very energeuc and ex- tremely w matical prociaination requesting tis men to shoot everybody who was found anywhere in the vicinity of @ safe. Rumors were afloat that 2,000 burgi: from New york were ¢n route, that martlal jaw had been proclaimed, that—1 know not what in short. With this description of the state of taings in Uhicago afver tue dre | viose tas letter, | Joua Goariea Cla Jharles Claen, oh beter: . ‘Thor Btorek fon Neinso: Iuoob Dg SFSSSSSSSSE SSSETSSSSSESSSS SISSSSESSE SSSSSSE SESE SESSSTISSSSTESSTSSSSSISEETSS te eC NOR eR RE SSSSSESSSLSHESSSSLESSSSSESSSSES SETSSSSESSSSELSSE Manufacturing Co...... 200 ing Company. Meriden Cutlery Company 250 Charlea Peace, Jr, Wallace & Sons........... 250 Ashiine W: New Britain Batik Lock |) Barton, 100 Hoyt, Busick & O 100 Smith, Cohn « Co. 1) gebsrectag a bel + verlin, a eee dealin 100 W. N. Seymour Lauderbach, Gilbert & Cherita Manufacturing Co....,, 100 A. Hammacher & Co.. | Brown, Harris & Hopkins 100 W. H. Crossman & Bro... Fernaid & Sise 100 Turner, Seymour & Judds ‘The Iron Age. Wo W. T. &J. Cottin, Lee & Co’ B. J. Eyre & Co. Gilbert, Rennett Dunlap & Lyman M facturing Compan W. F, Shattuck & Co, Sherinay Brothers. ; Quackenbush, yTownsend & Co. ‘Company Cowing & Falls, N. Samuel Roosevelt. 8. Otis Livingston. T. H. Chalmers & 3, T Pratt & Co. ‘Co. Seneca e oor: & Co... H. & 4. W. King. : J. Curiey & Bro. lienry Seymour & Oo. Gierk Yale Look Com: John 8. Holler « Co. pany. John W. Whitehead. Cash, 20,000 96 6,905 83 + 8668,006 89 Grand total by the Chamber of Cornmerce. Contributed by the L' e I-surarce Companies. table 1,000 1,000 Ne | North america 500 | Washington. Globe. Continen' Ollicers and Employes Knickerb 0 Kquitabie Life. 1500 Guardian . 1,000 Oficers and Seeurity. 1,000 Universut 1,000 ‘Total Life Insurance Companies... Leas previously reported. Total (additional). Hail of which go to the Forest Fire Fusd. No. Lmployes of S. Godchaus & Co, Broome Street. 85 416 P. hieKiroy:. J.B. Knoxaoi Miscellancoas Report: d Ye.terday. Heissenbuttio & Weise, oe oo Boss & Clark.. 00 00 Mariners’ chure! 36 Bt it Theatre Con! 2,378 00 jinger Sewing Mac! rey oo Thomas Jessop, 10,000 g Ghareh of the strangers. ino Handyside & Henderson, 25,000 90 Total... “ $40,006 81 RECAPHAULAT OF YESTERDi\V's COL- LECTIONS. elves at HERALD Office. 1,056 50 Efe Tnmaranee Compan bie) ® amber of sorta doves SL ‘Total yesterday 049 Pre Tay seporied tea 4 Grand total New York (about), THE CHICAGO RELIEF FUND OF BROOKLYN, The contributions for the relief of the Chicago sufferers at the Mayor's office yesterday were $271, ¢ total amount now subscribed in Brookiyn, in- ating ‘tue appropriation by the city, 1s $170,000, freoklyn Police Generosity. Evorts are being made by the police captains of Brooklyn to have their men subscribe to the grand fund for the Chicago sufferers. ‘ne patrolmen were last year cut down in their pay by the Legislature from $1,200 to $1,000, while the Captains’ salaries were increased from $1,600 to $2,000, The pay of the New York police force remained intact Hence the guardians of the public peace and morals of the City of Churches contend that iad annum from ee day merous offer, but its prac- Uoability is questionable OO _ DESPATCHES, LETTERS AND AID, A performance took piace at the Stadt Theatre on Tuesday evening, given by Mr. Bandmann, of tne comedy, “A Glass of Water,” in which he appeared as Lord Bolingbroke, and the entire proceeds of the Performance were announced as intended to be ap- Propriated for the “Chicago Relief and Aid Fond.” ‘The house was crowded, aud the evening's enter- talament obtained @ unanimous and enthusiastic applause. The result of this of charity was made known erday forwardii of ocala Goan ae Caney Mmserancee baum Bros. & Co., bankers, Bi ane a See The pupils of Pennington (N, y Onan 5 ( Methodist Episco- nave ‘Chicago $304. ry collected and forwarded A grand ball match will take to-di 1a afternoon on the Unton grounds: Wwiniemeuure, Ia ald of the Chicago sufferers, contestants will be the celebrated Athletics, of Philadelphia, with the inimitable Martin as , and the no less Mutuals, of this city, with Arthur €um- mings, of the Stars, as their . The game will commence promptly at half-past two o'clock, nd those who are desirous of witnessing a reall: ine display of the beauties of our national game, and fhe hetiaon ofl togeitak tae nacre unfortunate Chicagoians should not fail to beon hand. CHICAGO, Oct, 18, 1871, To the AMBRICAN Committ! Loadon, through Drexel, Morgan & Co,:— a tn We are advised that you have made an additional remittance of £2,500 to our stricken people, Your fee dofies space. As the wonderful gifts have m flashed to us from all of the eatth we are lifted from our desolation, The arm of tho civilized world is thrown around us. Heaven bless youfor this needed help and for the language of encouragement and deep love which it a] 8 to our afflicted people, R. B. MASON, Mayor. Oct. 18, 1871. To the Lory Mayor of London, land, through exe Morgan & face - ae om ave your advice of Your Lord- ee further remittance of £7,000 in h~half of our afficted citizens. Our calamity has den. -wled the universal brotherhood of mankind, If Your Lord- ship and our Engitsh brethern could sec how, in our desolation, the gitts give us heart forthe present and nope for the future. it would be a richer reward and Pee penowliedeiany, then our tears aud words of gratitude can possibly express. R.B, N, Mayor. Crica mome! To THE Eprror oF THR HERALD:— ‘The collection in the Charch of the Strangers, Rev, Dr. Deems, last Sunday night, for: the Chicago sut- ferers, amounted to $300. Large packages of cloth- ing have been sent in since last Sunday, and will be forwarded this week. Most respectfully, G. W. HOLLAND, per Committee. New Yor, Oct. 19, 1871, ANCHOR LINE oF “Sere he New York, Oct. 19, 1871. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: — Weare this morning in receipt of the following cable message irom our head office in Glasgow, VIZ. GLAsaow, Oct. 18, 1371. Hrxprnson Rnos.. New York :-- Pay through our Chicago house £5,000 sterling to Mayor Mason, of Chfoago, on nccount of Giasgow subsorip\ton for euferers conflagration at cago. if gration HANDYSIDE & HENDERSON, ‘We have advised our firm at Chicago accordingly. Yours espa Sf HENDERSON BROS., per Bi. Perry. To THR Epiror OF THE HERALD:— While the sweet spirit of charity animates so actively every phaxe of society in sympathy for Chjcago, may no: a lover of the “Turf” offer a sug- gestion with a view to the relief of the sufferers. We have a splendid race course near by—Jerome Park. In the adjoining stables are to-day some of the finest horses in the world. Before they are taken away let ug have one more day’s running Jor the benefit of Chicago. In this pleasant weather the attraction of a four-mile dash would secure an at- tendance of rank and fashion of $10,000 at $la bead. Yourstruly, RK. G. D., 73 Fourth avenue, Ocrosgs 19, 1871. THE FOREST FIRE FUND. The People Awake to the Necossi- ties of the Sufferers. LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS YESTERDAY. Below wili be found further donations made yea- terday for tlie sufferers by the forest fires in Michi gan, Wisconsin and Ilowa:—_ Moneys Received Yesterday at the fierald Office. Fs Mime. Amoet, Fioriane....+ % 0 10 00 28 fh 25 50 100 00 15 00 200 60 90, aw Contributions Received by Catlin, Rrandrett & Co., 448 and 450 roadway and 12 and 14 Crosby Stre Catlin, Brundrett & Co, Spaulding, Hunt & Co Woodward, Lawrence Beiien Coibacn & 6 rague, Colburn & Go. wR Mndge, Sawyer & C Thomas J. Davie. & Co. a s 1s ins dot & Co. Lesher, Whitman Nichols, Van Vorst & N. W. Riker, BSSseurseseseseszeserses' Sésesse2esasezssessssces: ©. B, Peet & Uo. Total... Total Heral Previously reported. Total received at HERALD office,.... Otaer Donations. Employes of Equitable Life Insurance Co. Mrs, Lawson. Cther newspaper ollices, RUCAPITULATION OF YESTERDAY, Herald office. Grand total..... s+. ASSIST U3 OR WE PrRisa. The Viciigs of tho Fire in Appeals for Ai Below will be found letters and memoranda reia- live to the fire in the forests of the Northwé it have befallen our State and som boring States are truly ap Hog. Over ‘ittecn bur mea, women and children have m burned to death in Wisconsin alone, and vast numbers are now sulfer. ing and bey uuder medical care, from the the fires from which they but partially escaped, and ferme are, to a large extent, uttorly destro; soil having buroed up and destroyed ail their autumn and root are utterly destitute and will uire full sup- ther season. Seven counties in our own Uy Rit utterly desoiated. Whole regions of country in Weal nebigan are in the same condition, and these pres are atill raging and destroying. Milwaukee fs doing all she can do, By her close neighbor. hood to Chicago she was enabled to send large quantities of supplies inte that devastated sy during the progress ot the fire, eet her firemen and exhausted citizens. Vast numbers of Chicago sufferers are now filling our hovecs a public buildings, aud we are ministering to their necessities, We have forwarded hundreds of toms of provisions and Northwest= clothing and stoves and other nesdful supplies to 0 to Northern Wisconsin and to Western Michigan, We are doing our utmost. But the amount of suffering in our own State is beyond our power to ase We appeal to the great public Tor aid. We will be tho dis. ‘naers of aupplies to sufferers in Wisconsin and Western ichigan. We have made evcry necessary arrangement to eccomplish t] Purposes with economy and ee All coniributions In money may be sent to Mt. Alexander Mitchell, banker, and all contributions ‘of 004, clothing, bed- ding and other neesssary suppiies may be directed to Hon. Harrison Ludington, Mayor, L jayor, Hon. Alexander Mitchell, banker, Joun Plankinton, of Pindkinton & Armour. Geo, W. Allen, of Wisconsin Leather Company. Angus Smith, of Angus Smith & Co, Guido Pfister, leather manufacturer. John Dahiman, wholessie grocer. Charles F. Usley, of Marshall & Lislev. Foon, iter, mtiler. . MeLaren, commiasion merchant William Young, commission merchant, John Nazro, hardware merchant. L. H. Kellogg, araia merobaal, amen Bonnett asics £2 Fate of, 400. Tullua Goll, of Goll veered ohn Black, wi wor dealer. J. Kershaw, commission meget, WILLIAM J. LANSON, Searetary. ‘The contribution of “Jeames’ to the above fang was $2, insite: if bd ‘ad of $1, 83 publisned in Tuesday's The fo'lowing appeal has been zim- merman, of 47 Exchange ora bhp TO ALL HOLLANDERS, DEsoR! ann ‘oomraa— ep NDANTS OF HOLLANDERS in view ol great Ly ised by the terri the town of iHolfand, tn teat tats sation Fo ret natcks Guaker, of Nos iS Broad se of @ fund, as above, He has net bat will also use his best influence to ob chanael a saa wey all “Cd atere ana my Trlonis "sea Soogoriplions to Mr. Vas treasurer. . B, ZIMMERMAN Naw Youx, Oct. 19, 1871. Anchor Life Insurance Company ackno' pied the receipt of the following oe “4 suflerers:—One package of Fuller; two Papeete. 4 Mrs, Lane; one box of clothing, from Orange J.; four pack. of clothing, from Mrs. R. W. Lawson; Soe cloth WwW. Smith; one package Orange. N. J.: Mra. R. We cash, $10; two cases bedquilta (new), from jonth charch, Brooklyn. s Grugs; J. G. Kilburn, “one one. drags: Mrs, Tracy arugs; J. Tn, ie Myre ‘avenue, one bundle clothing; Mrs, South, Myrtle avenue, one bundle clothings Measrs, Ba e Myrtle avenue, one bundle clot! Miss le, Bedford avenue, two bundles cl g Justison, Jr., Skillman street, one bundle friends, two bundles clothing; Mrs, Holman, 307 fayette avenue, one bale clothing: one pact of music, from McNab & Oo., 667 Myrtle avenud, te Measrs. Root & Cady, Chicago, Ill. Meeting of Belcians at Delmonico’s—Relie! tor Compatriots in Green Bay. A meeting of Belgians residing in this olty was held last evening at Velmonico’s, corner Chambers street and Broadway, to take steps for the relief of Beigtans burnt out at Green Bay, in Wisconsin. Mr. Cnarlea Mall, Consul in this city, was President; Mr. Lamarehe, Presivent, and Mr. Laridon, Secretary. These officers were empowered to re- ceive subscriptions, A vote of thanks was given Mr, Malt for having already forwarded $500, The Belgian Minister in Washington and Consuls in the States will be asked to ald in the good work. Subscriptions will be received at the Consul’s omMce. $1,276 was handed in last evening in a few moments, CLOTHING AND FESDING CHICAGO. Farther List of Supplies Sent by the Erte Railroad. The following are the supplies sent, via Erie Rail- road, to the victims of the Chicago fire. All articles sent to the office of the Boston and New York Ex- press or to the Twenty-third street forry will be for- warded:— Anthon Memorial chureh, Mrs. Simmons, 137 Madis: 8, Hays & C bag clothing. No name (New York and Boston Express), 1 case clothing, 1 prokage slothtng. Hux'ey & Dunne, 87 Jane atreet, 1 box clothing. 868 Broadway, 1 box. No name (New York and Boston Express), 2cases clothing John Faber. 990 Sixth avenue, 1 packaue olouniog. pe ARES ue) Latige ted street, lata lothing. ra, Wilat jowery, 1 pacl 2 Noname ( New York and Boson Express), lease clothing, ackages do, ‘Bu Anirew’s church. 8 casos clothing, 8 barrels do. O. Whitaker, 404 Kast 120th street, 1 barrel cixping. Franklin & Go., 48 East Fourteoath street, 1 case clothing J. Bach, 844 Weat Fourteenth street, 1 case clothing. Thirty-seeond precinct Now York Poilcs, 12 cases clothing, . 3. He 5 cases clotning. Rew Stephen Ht Tyng, df Church of Holy Trinity, 4 cases slothi o; Orange, N. J Wescott's Expross,7 cases clothing, 1 box cases clothing. venue, 1 case clothing. -ovisions, 2 bundies clothing, a package clothing. erga cove: $8 Went ‘Ehirty-second street 1 package thing. ‘Sided & Co., 93 Fulton strect and 958 Broadway, 1 case \ clo-hing. cans ye (New York and Boston Express), 5 packages cloth ing. € wrote} cues, Actas Ne Mark's church, Tenth sirect and Second avenue, 8 onses Ing. What the Ladies Are Doing fn the Churches. The parlors and lecture rooms of some of our city churches present a strange appearance to the unint tated, filled as they are with packing boxes, gar ments of all kinds and conaitions, materials for new clothing, and the. busy workers who are converting all these into avatiable charity for Chicago. Since the war there has not been so much enthusiasm awakened in all classes of the community, and an immense amount of good Is being done by these co-operative societies of women that are sending te Chicago and to the Northwest old and new clothing, bedding, blankets, snoes, hats aud everythlog that can be inade useful to men, women and children who have lost everything. At St. Thomas’ Episcopal charch, Rev. Dr. Morgan rector, the ladies have orga a relief society, _ aud umbers work rege fi every Gay in ine cloister ruows of the church, and propose to continue workta; ate the Pisa 1 for help. ‘Two boxes, valued at $2: havé already been sent West, one in care of Rey. Dr. Clinton Locke, for the inmates of St, Luke's Hospital, and the otner for general. distribution. Boxes are to be sent to Wisconsin, and $400 has ; been ralsedto buy material for a large quantity of bedding to be forwarded next week. > The Anthon Memorial church Capa 1), Forty- ‘eighth street, between Sixth and’ Seventh | Avenues, 18 open every day, berween leven and | one d'elock, to receive contributions clothing, n <dof the church are making new gar- foalta ay. Taat ng bie, Seven valuable boxes have been gent tc C! ae nd the church will re- main open through the weel . St, Pants Methodist church Is to be opened next week for the reception of contributions and for mak- ing up clothing. “ 6 ladies of Dr. Bellows’ church and congre- ; @ation work every day in tl weaaeay school rooms adjoining the cnurch. They forwarded 5,000 garments last week, on ten cases of old and new clothing | thisweek. Kight handred dollars has been con- tributed for the buying of material for bedding and Clothing, and the rooms are to be kept open as long Qs it is considered necessary. So. far the contribi cous Baye been sent tothe Rev. Robert Colyer's church. The Ladies’ Sewing Society of Plymouth be fodton Brooklyn (Mr. Beecher’s), have $500, an are making comforters and sheets and bed ticks and Canton flannel underciothing in fecge quant} ties. Two boxes have been sent, valued at $311 each—one to Chicago and one tw the Northwest— @nd their rooms are full of clothing, sent from every quarter, to be forwarded, Everywhing, from @ baby’s hood to boots for men and boys, 1s bein; soried and folded and packed by the busy hands o| the ladies, Dr, Cuyler’s church ts open through the week to receive all kinds of contributions. BACCKLYN AFFAIRS. Iomates of the County Institut! The weekly reports frem the heads of department of the county institutions show the number of in Mates st present to be as follows:—Almshouse, 781; Hospital, 395; Asylum, 721; Nursery, 418; Small Pox Hospital, 77. The Missing Pry or. Yesterday afternoon a telegram was sent from MB Wainwright, of Rorwalk, Conn., stating that a young man answering the description of young Pryor, whe disappeared from home on Sunday night, was at that place. Chief Campbell despatched an officer to Nor- ‘Walk to see if he was the m! ge boy. Baried fa an Embankment. Edward Noonan, a laborer, residing in Twentp third street, near Seventh avenue, was at work yes- terday at an embankment corner of Fourteenth street and Seventh avenue, when a quantity of earth caved in and buried him, When rescued he ‘was found to be bad!y injured about the head. He Was (aken to his home, Suffocated to Death. Patrick MoManners, @ laborer, residing at No, 9% Atlantic street, was suffocated, yesterday afternoon, inagrain elevator at the Atlansio dock. He was in in Barber's stores, near the ele wator when te. lost his batance aad [len — the spout through which the grain passes, and whem Fegcued life was extinct, Tne Coroner wes no! ‘the Sanday School Usion. The annual meeting of the Brooklya Sunday School Unton took place last evening at the Rink, in. Clermont avenue, and was a decided ee ede ‘ wefe interspersed with music, gaa singing by the Sunday school chtidren, The building was very tastefully decorated with fags of kinds and never looked better, ‘There were about one thousand Sunday school children prea- ent, and when they all ‘under the leadership of Mr. Henry Camp, the Rink resound wits @ chorus rarely h The Kev. Dra, Hall, Send- der, Talmage, Gallaher aud others addressed the meeting. Besieged Parinx. A lecture by M. Coquerel, of Paris, will be de» livered in the Church of the Saviour, Perrepont | atrect, corner of Monroe place, Brooklyn, on Savur- | day evening next, under the auspices of the Mer- | cantte Library, ‘The entire proceeds of the lecture | will be devoted to the public purposes announced by the lecturer. M. Coquerel has delfvered his leo | tare in New York and it lias received the highest | commendations of those who neara it, The de | scriptions of the scenes in Paris, as witnessed by the | lecturer, are of the most vivid ‘description and are well calculated to instruct and edify those who wilt have tue privilege of listening + Lin