The Sun (New York) Newspaper, October 11, 1871, Page 1

=— THIRTY-NINTH Ye AR, Tr “NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1871. ee PRICE TWO CENTS. THE RUINS OF CHICAGO A Storm of Rain Follows the Storm of Fire, THE CONFLAGRATION AT AN END, Light Ineendiaries Hanged to Limp Posts or Shot, OVER FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Thrilling Descriptions of the Fire by Eye-Witn esses. MRS. POTTER PALMER'S ESCAPE. Not a Bank, Hotel, Express Office, or Railway Depot Left. 0,000 IN PROPERTY GONE. Over One Hundred Thousand People the Open Alr, A Special Meeting of the and Soldiers City. Legi ture, Vigilance Committees Guarding the Ruined At 1 o'clock yesterday morn ing the great @nflagration in Chicago was still raging in all its relentless fury, and there seemed but little hope for the illefated city. Block after block, treot after street, and district after district, suc- tumbed to the devouring monster, Five hun- dred precious lives are said to bave been sacri- rT nable animals perished in the fami nt is fiery lake, and hundreds of val- es. The wind, which during the day bad blown a moderate gale from the « Bra deveard. thro portion portiward, and back upou the southern district, Yought would be spared. All Jed, and the suffering ones gave to despair. flames above and around them, utnwerd drove nd eastward, driving the Ne Me 0rd AL AR RUBE od ai tee D! of the city, suddenly shifted to the destructive elem the , Which it was hope at o} themselves up In the dark, and with the crackling the housele 1 terror-stricken people dropped on their Knees and PRAYED To GoD to stay the scourge. ‘The prayer was answered At three * «° clouds of rolling smoke Trom the ruius gat heavens, and gain Ing moisture from contact with the cold air Above, descended in refreshing showers progress of the flames was apparently che But human ingenu was brought to bear ii wise. G in with @ large force of sap: pers aud miners undertook task of fight the fire god. H w b kt gs, and which at this time mus A a tpatch saying that the 6 was 6 ra, and again the Learts e Aud fualig telegraphic com ni $ entirely suspended AK ORMAT FIRE QUENCHED, despa' came via St, Louis and annou the following glad 8 Mo. Uc! 10-8 P. M\—A despatch just ' tos tha ) storm wet in ce nex s ae envelopes 1 the mass of burning and red ’ © conveyance s two tet " of the ner Ho . f Messrs, Field, Leiter & & Yaulia & Halle, and in fae tone i « go \* e SLEEPING IN THR Woops Alarge camp has been formed outside the city Jenie are being supplied to some, but thousands of people are sleeping on the ground. Aistrict women and children throng are cooing tieis food at small free turbetones, At least ten thc men are to-day left penniless Policies of insurance Jens, a8, on account of tis not It is now certain eory heavy, the overwnel due losses. that the loss A WHOLE WAGON LOAD OF DB. Was carried trougn Wabasu avenue Curcago, Oct, 10.—It is yi t s potijing remaining of the 4 \ue river norte to Lincoln Park on he p the river river, whe © Were business dle , welings. Two th i sirict Were German and Scand ond weal f the popu In the \ the sir ern ts and y busine ure looked upon a» worth. ming extent of xpected that they can be paid. of life nas been Ab BODIES jaat evening, or porn side, fr to say the north and on the west to slong the main Decks, WAR occu Toes naviag are pow homeless. Some of them are ia h gs on the nurtivwest section, and others dn the prairies, without abelter taroughout the day Tesvortay & renewal of ine Gres ou ue Woat oid May looked for, und a change of five degrees int ‘ T the wind st avy time wou'd have led to Koni rosuit, ‘There would then have been no r t Ever y bad their clothing packed READY To START FOR THE PRAIKIB wa {Got averted this last possible at 8 o'¢ $ morbing the rain, a0 ter mu eu for cw bid got rain long, t A meeting ene was held io t Sorgregationay n West Was Kreot, which was huead throughoet the wight Bevscroe wereconcerted to protect what property Was le't, and to prov homeless Moore, ke and Charles Croipe, of the North j Winkes, St weetern Man plan whieh ing water in case of fire breaking out a ‘The machinery of their works is being use purpose, and their engine and boiler for pumping water from the river HANGING INCENDIARIES 10 1 Letaens wo jactaring Company, have co Fifteen hunter worn to as an extra police force, and the Secretary of War Authorinyd Gen, Sheritan to employ ai! available troops for suard, and issued an order for one hundred | coumingied ; poor peo: thonaand rations. Five humires soiliers ary on | and of every n ty, Tois pe on Was neceds iry, for, as remark be as It may soem, there were Qouds who still | other to get away sought to oxtend the disaster, foot Meu and Two inen caughtin the act of Aring houses on the | and their hovse West side were arrested and imme tiste! lamp posts—one on Twellth street, near and the other tire miles away North side. This sam thieves and murderers. Alb TO STAY THR FLAMES, aerival cf @romea and mnginos Louts, and other cities th restored confidence, The Cincinnati tral this morning with four @ and ons from Dayton, Th Thoy were nthe way, having to chanze tie route twice, and 4 Piqua and Lozansport, then Anally cane wa An inexpressible ploature ia seoing pertenced Gremen go riga Veing pat into execution, for provid are being used MP Posts. om Cay burne avenue, ary action bas checked t apparentiy nes, LiFe from twat city venteon tours | @ to work ina business ntrived & fity to seventy anytime. | ciildren fleoiug b 1 for that weir clothing a Youlele was brow which enormous and sidewalgs uri las! night y bang to the river, | ¢ Those are the # from Mil. | bi One of the most aged Woman on i arrive! melody,” Crow. here were} ex. | and made deeper the ing ten ter iuta , ali ooking a place of safety, these might have Deca teen in vacant io} sireets far cut in the suburbe, stretched in the dust ndreds excess of thirst held in this or any other country. zht tuto trices were een Africa, mad with excitement, very paid, and tb da siant, FRIGUTFUL SCENES. Thousands of persons and ‘There were (rom thousand men, women, and y every available etre o the southward and westward, attempting to save d their lives nid alley availayle requisition for ase, tor horses inextricably ¢ of all colors and shades, from Europe, Coina, ond traggled with each Hundreds were tramp.ed under women 1d goods ufteriog la calls on the rich world to 9 (ue If the heart of man shall prove ondurate! pitit trogeling through @ crowd to whose rk bs feed and clotae, wero loaded with bundles half dressed and barefoot aflerwar or on the rikt now Goa wan that Ne State fireet, londed with bundles. wing Lhe Moth " “Chiekery, Chickery, Crany “Twent to the we to wash my tee, others likewise distracted, by whiskey or beer, whic y drank in Feat quantities, who spread themselves in every absence of & from water in way where wor: was most needed. They are play ng Ou Cont piles, to Save Whatever of 1a°l Is possidie, rection, a terror to all they met, It ts fear‘ul to nd preventing tha further spread of Cimes, Tue | think of the lose of live, It Is conjectured, with Yast plato is covered with peopie, wandering about | KOOd Cause, that nearly seving the evidences of a wealth that has completely FIVE HUNDUED PAVE BREN BURNED TO DEATH. vanished in firmes and smoke, A tew business | Wé saw four men enter @ burning eutluing, and tv men with some nerve are seeking bouses for busi | a moment tuey were overwuelwel by a falliag Wal nee in the West Site, Rooms tat rented last neck | There was a crowd of men around the corner of @ for $50 now readily command $5,000. There are | building trying to save property, when the wal hot many of these, but enongh to allow afew duel | sicluing, some of them were busted beneath it ea te tart. REVIVAL OF THE News! The newspapers will days or weekw. The Pans. arte 6 again coe ton street, at the Tunnel west side, and li \ype, there being potning leit here, the Timed and begin the Hon. Joseph Medili, of the ridune, who 18 ove of the heaviest suilerer d yesterday in leasing © building on Washing Hle also purctiased (wo single cylinder presses used ina job office on the teleeraphed East for paper and Mr. Story, of , will erect @ rough one-story building, issue of that paper as soon About twelve or fifteen men, omeD, and rusbed into the building of the Historical Society, « J ina few sue. mate. | sail, wis rialeam be procared, The Journat is provided for | who was sufteri on the wert tice, The Prat, Republican. and State | for prot Zeitung will alto arrange for business ax soon as | consumed, and it practicable, but everything must come from else mH where, There is nothing left. PROVIDING FOR THR HOMFLE Water for diinking and household use from the lake and parks, and river. There area thot the artesian well for hors avenues, near the prairie. fed in the remaining charen sheds, and by the roadside. this moroing, causing great suffering, bo clearing up again; bat come, the people are praying rain, so fearful are Adah S68 Pe The people sty ey of Further information wil be sent r ceived; meanwhile we give a repc its incidents, epeciaily prepared for the Presa by thore who witnessed and fought throughou! THE ORIGIN OF THE DISASTER. Late on Sunday evening @ boy went in on Dexoven streot, near the river, on the to mil acow, carrying with him a keros This wi fluid seatiered among the straw, ning of the great fire. A single extin the Drake block were soon iv recently bu! sles. Ih seemed t strnck 9 well than it and a very few minutes sufficed most elaborately built t nos flames throu the nd people camped abc four miles out. and pertaps as | « many more at the lake, upon Wallertou and Victor school-houses, in Tk was cold and cuilly instead of this being wel a continuance of as soon ae re of the fire and kicked over by the cow, and the burning This wi Farwell & Co.'s, al Al is secured from eipation tes street, were ing 0 are being t snow sicea ravi family of five pei Bae Re a Ta | haw for more thes is very AS the flames 6 maniac. In of fam a fire proof building, for safety. Ie the flames burst up and they were Lurned to deatu Among those who toox rofua the venerable Col, Samuel Stone, are, fora long time connected with tre loc. also, John B. Gerard and wife, Mwe, Depelerone, the noted teacoer of music. Frear and family were}aiso burned, as toey were in the boiling and have not been ses husband was murdered rom an iilnest ist burned, reons p an President Li ed with them, the sam) nty few minutes ja this building was years of ty 5 Tt {e feared that Dr. sine bed. The away, at Amone th oy, THE LOSS $300,000, 000. A carefol survey of the insurances to-day shows to a stable west side, ne lamp. over $20,000,000; the be- | press their ooner bad | Tel to destroy ed a ee som anda fair estimate cx All the leading merchants who have been seen ex determination to resume business at graph Company, on that there was written on th add ano 0 Gen, Bis ched of col fe wo Airs, Ed- last week, ana was corried away jon to a building wich was afterward ed she niso perisned, EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION GONE. ¢ books and papers of tue Historic ty, including the original copy of the fa Proclamation, winch the Society pad $25,000, were destroved, It is feared that a large number of eliiidren, in of tie Cataulic Orphat Society | Socle yous Eman. for on State many of them are muss On Chicago avenue @ father rushed up stairs, bearing teree chilaren away, ws by the Games and per: Was aiterward seen on the sirect on the northwest neighborhood a n he was overtaken The moter of su ean only be fully verified shal) bave.cleare jes on ti clothing, but barely their lives mily of Perry sinith, former Nortawestern Railroad Come saved no wose is Property destroyed her $100.000,000 to this be r tne loss or aisser on | once. the ground, OF active Work Of the police iu tearing | ‘This includes heavy Houses, such as John V. Far Jown oce or two shanties, would lave prevented | well, Feld, Leiter & Co., and Soracve. Warner & tne spreaaing flames; but the engines were wailed | Co, Furwel & Co. spd Field, Leiter & Co, saved for, and, when they arrived, tne firemen, stupefied | irom $200,000 to $500.00 worta of goods, Both by their exertions at the first fire on Saturday night, | fms tiave already estab ished leadquatters ou the worked slowiy and clumyily, Their efforts were un- | wes: side availing: the wind from the southwest blew a gale, | Field, Leiter & Co, have just issued the following rapidly the flames shot from houte to house and board yard to board yard, until tue district burned To OUR PATRONS the night before was reached, Meanwiile the | We have saved ke and pavers, onc flames had crossed the river north of Tweifth ave opened an oft Calumet avenue, We on to the south side, ned made for brick and stone | ‘ru'indebted: tone will: make iinmediite payment ess biceks, railroad freight depois, aud never cease to thunk Jou for past. i UY ACTION OF THE AUTHORITIES Me TOT Naved) Fu LEITER & 6 extent of danger was reaiiged. tor 1 g Journai and Tribune nope to pad! Mayor and city govern | ness men to ¢ay a spirit eu to ato ed, now began toexert | set to work to y had been lost REBUILD THE CITY AND RESTORE nUStVESS orgauization contd hive | 4 ro 18 to be herd ed for the emergency | to pr acantge Was negiected, ana It was now a fzut for lite, Tue | ys Fears wind blowing a sti gale had possession of the | ent #0 many ‘ Harris Telieve these and Madison s © | Gen, for mor ening Ulscks from the river to Dearborn Sisapaaiall Galina Rifsaar ane Heh beta n the east, being comsumed, Tree quarters citizous, ‘Tue only effectual remedy 4 of a mile of brick blocks Were consuined as if Ly Riek the thousinds who wou magic, 1 propristore aud emplove sork { e ry offlce of the were at uncon iw + | Wertern Union Teiozraph Compan’ is met their enzo! ‘The Bord of Trade, Court Il ' OMice, and hundredsjot other buildings were aflau to the Lorth and cast—s beacon of destru Phe sev wt Tncendiaries Tho fire engiies were powersess 1 Al Hanged and sho was to blow up ngs, but | Associatep V’kuss Orrice, New Yous, Oct, 1 f SP. M.—The report dat a late hour ty Tribune, Post, Reputtican, Journat, | afternoon and bulietined throughout tue city, that Hemspaper offices, the Western News | tue Gre bad broke out again in Citeago in a quarter Company's block, Pield & Leitter’s establishment, | pitherto untouched, hapoily proves untrae. Goo, Palmer, Vice-President of te Western Union eading the report, tee Superintendent o the Company, now at Chicago, for coufrmation, and Siracture; the walit | received the following reply : melted, and the very pricks were consumed CMicago, Oct. 10—4 P, M. THE WOODEN PAVEMENTS TOOK Pine, Gen. Paimer, A fre started to a small batiding on Thirty-frst making # continuous sheet of ime, two miles long | atrect, pue wos speedily put out by a mile wide, No human being could possibly te incendiaries are busy, but seven or eight have survive many minutes. Block atter block fell, ar PPR FATES STOEL IE RBUY ee ence further and the norih side of Lake | Thrilling Statement of a Counin of Potter ttreet, was a Y lees of from the Palmers a Retugee trom Chicago. river to tle lake at one time, #o Lemuing io the At u late hour last night # party of cleven per teople tuat it was expected thousands must perish arrived in this eity direct from Culcago, having Sherman, Trewont, aud other hotels were emptied tunately been taken on a special express trait Of (heir guests, and a remarkable sight presented it- | wien left at about % o'clock on Monday morning (in the wurrying oa mt, sack y James 1 &, Edear M. brag ves, Those who could made for the remaining | Conn,, Mr. Abiel Palmer (cousin of Potter Palmer bridges, othere got next tothe lake shore, aud #o | the Cuicago millionaire), Mrs. Palmer, throe chil faath en, und nurse of Chicago, aud Oliver Dutton o One block in all the vast business section re | Waterbary, Conn, Mr. Valmer, who is thoroughly mained at daylight, viz., the Tribune block, The | acquainted with the toporrapby und population of | Custom Id Bar Honsre bina ta Chiewge, furnishes the following 3 u 2 Ou Baturday aiterpoon several small alarm: street, hau burned, ava More Wau had fougit the | Are were sounded, Uut, Hove umonmed ie nt flames lere thought at least could be | until about 10 o'clock. At 11 we looked ont of pa sindows, and aiw the sky eriunson with the red tion from the flimes, and at midnight the ¢ ALLANTRY OF THE MEDILLA, 1p the streets sod even sept out brisiant fame A patrol of wen under Sam Meaill swept of live | We Isle Af i i Ever) body in the Tremont House was up all night coals and put out tam the side wal sand aj irtgi of What wight Lapben, Ail day sandy) 4 € other lot of men uncer the direction of Hon. Joseph | exci « continued, but it was mot until nighs Medill, watched the roofs. At naif past 7 o'clock | tab toe wore came, From she vi our buse this appeared sate, and most of the men went t» get LOOKED OVER TUR DOOMED cITY. iat GPITT™ MING LER-weDY to seep ID sme 7 Soh 20a Sowing af the timanaud yor une building, Dut there wasa change of wind, Tue | panting *arytne, mawing Kreut aud' intrate ay flames reacted Wabash ay,, State et, and Michigan | swatis, with ful rapidity, We could. think aaeeacs soon meVicker's theatre caught fre | of nowung else Dut oell. Tae fale were in some r A Places like luge waves, dashing to and fro, jeapine In afew moments the Tribune was in flames, ana | Uy ana cown, turning and twisting, aud pourits ab he last moment the sleeping men were aroused | now teolumn of swoke aud begs Peay ‘e flames. By 10 o'clock in the | aundre wt into the air, like # solid perpen au rescued from she fame, By 3 ha dicular sueft of molien metal, Iv otuer places It forenoon this remaining bloc’ was in aslies. Now | would dart out long streaks, like mammoth anuco wee Wo be een the most rewarmalle Lb ever be: J dae, wish Liseing, ry WouK shen thes erven: apes would down over the blezing to the yet ubernel buildings, wiic pierced nnd kindled instantsneous were wleo billows ot flame th rolled slong ike water, aubmerzing é@vervthing i a then, as some explosive kes Would seam 11 no, UMS Of smoke Hid is of Sparks and cinders eing eeattered 14 All divections. Sometines the air would be fal! of them, aud gosts of wind would float (hem like locks of fire-birds hither and thither Uceasionally there were cladera of more than two fees in length. Showers of these were fallin: — J raining down everywhere, Our faces were Fclotbing ROW and wot umbrellas and i orlal was tie crater of a vast vol flashes of ligat and mil ehicida over 1 @ ine UpOR we GO! re was uw. 1 the scene IT WAS UNEARTRLY, HIDEOUS, TeRmIFIC, eyes seemed rivited so that we could not ithdesw thea. ‘There were miles of fire, moun thine of funie, waves of Haht, flashes, clouds, bril Liant scistilutions. With the aid of ginsses we could see the streets torunged with people fying lor thelr liver, (Lidren Were carried, screaming with terror, Women Were slirieking, mea were suouting, and all running. We saw some oid and fick und heipiess ¢ in siretco vers, some abour ently demented or finpefed Were dragged lone. Close to their he of purenit, eye the hele ing, Pouring, aude uckling es) ly ume pleeos they actually advanced ae fist a4 @ man cou run, The most awfol of all was tue thunderous roar that seemed to rol up ward and outward from (ie centre of tue huge bolveaust, Now there woud bea report ike tue boom of cistaut gu iu came & enapping hike We rade of musketry, Horses rusied like mar ugh the eircets. One splendid (eam coach ran over the Van Buren bri en chaired wad Weakened, Justas the passed Wwe cenite it gave way, and vey piunced down turou. the lurtdl glare into the C river below. J liere Were ail sorts of wcenee ning—son e, overs ridicw ous, Here sind (Ore, Whe building becatne shee ed A fave, thew Weuken ind waver hike ini bubuer, Zt was son 6. ful how they sometim SWaled—almost across the stree— tell w elon! crash; thee a jomentary hess, and iter satu sree glares of light irom #0..0 newis« ainale! fire. Even Whose streets thet were paved With toe Wooden patenis were MASSRS OF Lite COALa, nite slabs were erscked Ault ‘The masrive Wousrnds of Wert wus very great #0 ipleuse that oo cne could stand witvin Discs of the place, Lie Fools cate gusts of bot al strong enough to throw one of bis fe Were parche , the Win root was hot, forced down below. The groatest into lice Low tye fumes reoned to eng ud more lofty Mansutd rools. | tvey paper. The hotel was crosdod. All were excited and fearfal, Every moment the re porw, came that the fire was nearing wu we could not rewain longer. At iniduighe tu and Snaily we k the only tuoust 1 lost crossed (he Adatns street Urid All tue slipping that oad not been reaioved was cu sumed The (ar aud oF nflammabie stut made to intense iigut, and (he Heat cat be ttacined trom ihe clou ls of steam that eae Up trou tue river Ibe kerosene oil stores tide ap awiul yet su the fumes seemed to penetrate Tie huge iron. reservoir xploded with tremendous fore cent buildings, works demolisuing severil w RVERYBODY SREMRD DEMORALIZED. ed actually gaping out fire, ke, as thoagh the world itself was to up in the conflagration. ihe roe trom the Tremont House. when the word wa 2, was akin toa pone, ‘Ihe stairways were cuw.ed, and ue the smoke from tie avproaching fre) came * Lurouga the Wiu4os, the situation seemed Tue very earth # be ee cases persons jumped from the windows, ain beds and. ti and (wo euil ran wore tt own, rom tue foirch story Window, aba landed on te pavewout ounjured, A Mr. Jarvis bad a broken nd story window jeg Irom sprinzing Irom the see f sear se it SoD mF) cure! # stage aod drove towar! the subirt coping to get sway on some extra train, ‘The h were simors ungoveraabie from fight. Sume oi the cae Were Lupassavie, O8\ue Ged ib ruins, Fi nally we reached a train that was Just being des- {atehed direct for hei, and by the k conductor we were tacen severa: deaths and many belog SWALLOWED UP IN THE FLaMes, Certainly there must have been great loss of lite Ono fir-man. deciaies that tree families were sur. rounded ard burnt to death in tne block boun ied by A aus, Jackson, € and Water sirects We W groups Of ull Classes of peovle in the atroet hatiees, cost ess, barefoot. and anivering, © OF tuese were at the wea titer. Class, aieiter homeless, and poverty-stricken broken-ueoried The weony of mind in «ome ves were searciing bi sa! Was pi to witness, “No one ed anytaing. “There was no chance, We i iruaks in the street, Tue party procecded to New Haven this morn: Lnev ut there we had to leave A Graphic Description of (he Groat Fire by an Bye=W iiaess. Cuicago, Oct. 1 jolowing description of te has been sled by & gentleman wuo aived in sabaulng th s ne but an eye-winess can form an iden of te jong the paiattal ba sud Warehouses on tit © kot rte tre to rt iting ou Ra Water sireeta, and reappear at eo and Windows, ‘belching forth ip is ssuins tort) from ie buildings SHOOTING LPWAND 4 MUNDRED peer 14 to Lot uF v © fa H r y WITH AHIR ever presenie i ba tus Davie "10 compat the fire n Dat Was Goto and sudered the Mend to have un TUR MEANEST OF HUMAN HYENAS, While there are many instances of generous dey. tion on the part of rich aad poor ta divining with tae destituce, there are painful tnstagces 0. mean trrine to remove valuaole pa and askod two firemen to help him, bul Wey retased unless le paid them $50, The papers were destroyed Drivers of express wagons lave takea $100, an $500, for wo hour's use of their veniies in distressed people away frow danger the wad scenes of the calamity was tie eof hundreds of men and boys boasts 1 around the ets of the North Div wet Among SLUUL KESPerY storks. Uf for the eratisestion of pen hd there can hardiy be any vont that many ol these poor ye cues found their deach in Tie dames, from which they were too heip.ess to tifanes Ove Door man aad crowded ‘or reiu_e lute e war Wain, IYING 1M the stroet pear the wate Werks, bus the fines found Lim even there beiore fe coud get bis body WLOIly Ln safety. The Condition of the Homeless—lntense sul- fering Among the Poor, The Herald reporter furnishes the following Women and cuildren are going arcuud the b istrict Vauly seekiig #OMeLMIUE to mai er They avk fOr relief, OME the five them, Noone fas provis Provisions tore Wer ih the ei tate, and’ suine few: Rove "b bem’ for aday, but mot longer. artived trom Detroit, Civemmnati, Milwaukee, and te Lous, and sre. being distributed an fast us pow sible, Tweuty-turee dead bodies have been taken a etation on the north side, AU (he present ine {tit Impossitle. to. know who they are. As. men ued the want of eae is keonly felt ear undies iu the eily water, exce,t what , ee. V © !eare 0 OUTKAGHS BY THIBYAS every hand y their is none wo ns or money, Wha Are WOW VaThod v7) o.28h £0 Ing rovisions Luve on e Ore, 18 still caliing for to points to keep order, Ail bus pended, and ever: One is intent on securing Orat Something to eat aud ® piace of snelt The eudering on tue Nort Side is heart-rend| oe. Fi women and ¢ are sel Py dren nuddiet togeher lik ny wilt and in other places 17,000 C Wve for rele ; helpless oh beurt-brokea parent and J 7 ay rep asking (or bread Who Kaow 0} Wiich way to turn or what to sey, and nothing to do but await the distridution of supplies, which at best must be a slow proceeding, ere are parte of districts over which it is almost impossible to travel—pro Bent indved @ uarrosing scene, HARHOWING SCENES. Women in the flames of ehilt-birth, and patiente Who nave beea moved from beds of ickness to ter Which ot the Lent were nearly nt, Were all exposed to the rata of last night and ihe cold raw winds of to-day Several deatlis have occorred at Lincoln Park, and three women have broaght children imto th world only to. die. Peoole who, in th hitterne ascride the ealamnity to God's jadgment, dito me, This ie a 4 Sodom snd Gomorrah, aud thy curse of God ison it Another niet t mnst be spent in Lincoln Park and trick folds at Division street, ond yet another and avother, Fach traic and extras are loaded to their fullest copsetty, taxing people away who, iy many Hstances. inte no place to go to, yet they cannot Flay here every train I® obliged to leave Sve Lines as mony passencere As they take away, 1 LYEFy Precaution is being teken by the authori es 10 GARD THE PROPLE to nivbt, and if morning comes without robberies and murders they all will thank God, and go tor- Word with courage w Ledionavois Fire Department are bere and doing @ 0d servi Soringfleld and P dating liverally. all hands ts most gratifying. bat he} The Arening Journal got out hat ashe aod ether papers wiil follow to-merro« having veou found. ‘Tue private residences of Horace White and Wm, Bross ana the 7rtoune were consamed. Mr. Medill, Mr, Comies, and Mr. Wilson of the Journal, Mr. Storey, were fort The ceneral agent of Company, of Hirtiora contri ‘oria have done nobly f ay on t to-night, ome press. tue Autos Fire Insurance Announces that be Com: Dany will vay every dollar of the insurance, Meet Ins of citizens in the west end north sijes wil be kept open toe rest of the night. ‘The Commeretal Nouonal Bank will commence rebuilding on tieir old Site to-morrow, meanwiiie they reopen for busi neas on Weat Washington sireet. y opened thet vault this afternoon and ll their DooRs, paver mones, and securities were in per ect ordor. ‘There i4 8 rumor that ina burnt blacasinith shop on Rus on TIE BODIES OF FIFTEEN MEX Were found burnod to a crisp, they laving rushed Joto the sop to escxs from the flames which had Surrounded them betore they had discovered t peril. An immense number of peoole And for tae parpaxe of aiding in the disc missing ones, « central intelligence office bi established, where are collected the names of ail ne ones, and they are given to the police, The large hotel in the West Division, just completed, has been taken by Gage Bros. & ice, late of the Sherman House, and they will open it in ten days, ibe North Divition {s swept clear from the Chicago river to Wright's Grove, adistanes of more than miles. Bot one bouse, that of Muhion D eriy the Hon, William B, Ogden's, re ng in the entire district. A large por. Lion of the population driven from this desoiated gr.und are encamped on the prairie to the north, vhere they have nothing but the canopy of heaven to cover them, aud scarcely suMficivat 1ood to satisty their unger A MERTING OF Tie CITIZENS of the State was hed this evening, at which reso- lutions were parsed recommending Gov. Palmer to nh extra session of the Legisiature at once, Ex Gov. Oxesby wes appolntod to proceed to Spriug eld and lay the matter before Gov, Palmer Allthe packing houses in Chicago and many of the clevatura remain aninjured, and tiese two branenes of Chicago property will be but slightly interrupted. The Directors of the Chamber of Commerce met today. and resolved to proceed at once to the re erection 0 their elegant edifice Two companies of Coited States infantry arrived here uls eveaing, aud will be at once put on patrol ay. best Gen. Shoridan's Reports to the Secr SO EET TTS TT AWTS The Secretary of War has received the follow- ing telegrams ‘rom Gen, Sheridan Cuicaco, Oct. 9. Gen. Dettnap, Secretary of War, “MCAS Oct. 9 The city 0! Chicago 1s almost utterly destroyed by fire. There ls now feasonavle hope of arresting it, { the wind does not change, whien ia yet blowing & gile.. 1 ordered, on your auivority, rations from St is, tents froin Jeffersouville, and two compani naniry from Ounehe. ‘There will be many bouse ind uch distress. (Signet) PH. SHERIDAN, Lieat-G SECOND DRAPATC Cnrcaao, Oct. & W. W Relknap, Seeretary of War © dre ub and to-day has de almost all t ¥ Valaable in this eity is nota b e, bank, oF hotel lett, Most of the best yis'gone, Without exag- geration, all the Valuable portion of the city 4 in ruins, 1 think less tian one hundred thousand people are housele*s; and those wno have had tie ‘ost wealth are nos poor, It seems to me to Le fach a terrivie misfortune thas it may with propriety ve cousidered a national clamity POH. SbEKIDAN, Licutenapt-General, CEN, BELKNAD'S WEPLIRS, Wasuinuton, Oct, 10, Sheridan, Chleago. that the fire {4a national calam # hove the sincere sympathy of tie ts at St, Louis, Jener een ordered to tor WILLIAM W, BELKNAP, Secretary of War, THE SECRETARY 10 THE MAYOR. To the Mayor 49 Gen. sheridan hoe heen authorized bing, tents, and provisions irom t WILLIAM W, B to supvly depots at KNAP, Se Another Illinois Towa on Fire. etary of War, Cixcisnatt, Oct, 10.—Private advices from ‘ toyed by fre, No particulars have been received Property t Jon ¥." F Co. of Albany jearn «Car Property Safe. The f private despatch has been r ‘ Curcago, Mi,, Oct. 10 ce Ww 4 GEO. M. PULLMAN Vresident Pa lman Paiace Car Company Boston’ Bost ct. 10.—The Boston insurance offices as far as ascertained are liable for $8,100,000 in Chicago risks, The Hide and Leather losurance Company has the largest risks, amounting to $750, 00, 1 ses of Boston merchants are proper: tivnally small The principal lovses in the East fall upon manufacturing companies, A large Boston clothing house with 9 brancn bouse ta Chicago had & building aud goods barbed valued at m quarter of & million Noble Generosity of Capt, MeClar: mand, Tothe Editor of The sun Sin: Ploase forward the enclosed @118 tor the Tie amount bas bea tendered by m; eel! and the Kespectiuily WM. McCLARY Pov. Thave a New Youx, Oct THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE. Army Tents for 40,000 Persons ~The Burned Keyeaue Stamp Wasmixarox, Oct, 10.—The excitement over the Chicaza calami'y absorbs public attantinn, ‘The concerniig the furn Temp ag of goods and supplies ry shelter by means of tents the suderers an be provided for about $0,000 persons, and an immense number of tents and blankets are to be forwarded to Chicago from Puiladelpbia, defers vile, Mo,, and fr points boon lield in many weeks, no topic was discussed condition of the @ © Secretary of tne latter oftfcer an, Wherein ‘ e Government of reased condition pulation, and that he taken upou b self Tesponsibility of di ng the eurplus Py resin his command ‘The Prosident sanctioned thin at @eo, Sceriaan, and authorized on the part of Becretary of War to telegraph the Mayor of Chicago that the people of that city had the symoathy of (ne Govern: trent, and srould have ite ald sv (ar a8 possivle In’ conrequenee of this conflseration, the War Department has extended the time of payment of pureh tthe wule of Quartermaster's stores at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the veriod of twenty days, There are confirmatory reports that (he Govern ment moneys in tho Sub: Treasury, whicd anounted to four wi\ions—oue-balf million being gold—Wwere consumed. The Port Office Department has or tered that an til further notice ali registered mail matter which is to pass through Chicago must be made a direct to destin d not to Chicago for distribution May persona left herein the trains of to day to feck out friends and relations in the aeatroyel ety. A lorge number of puviic employees having friends there, being unable to restrain their anxiety and abide the aneenss of not nearing from them, have started for Chicago to proffer a-nistance. The Internal Revenue OMce uas rent to Chicago Mr. Edward Tompxine of that cffice to tine ovenue officers there in recovering or arranging (heir accounts, and rendering any awistance in bis Peer to the suihoritien Nearly one muition dol irs’ worth of stamps Were in the collection office a§ Culcago, and it I» supposed they huve been de stroyed, Fosmastor-General Creswell to-day addressed Col, Eastman, Postmaster at Chicago, as follows t “1 your eremt cainmity Lean ony give general in ctlouk. “Having secured Burliugion Hall tor a Port OMtice, coliect What tuaverial you have, reorganize and Go the brat you can tuuserve the peapiey Will a iaap. Plex tmmediaiely. Knaup hae been kene com New rk to, 00K ALG? the Bavgs will also gow way ‘Lhe subscription thus in the Census Office is $706 AID FROM OTHER CITIES. _— of Washington Setting an Ex ample ber "se $100.000-The wh Country Emptying Some of the printers in the Treasury Printing Bureau in Washington started a subscription for the relief of their immediate friends in Chicazo. Sub scriptions then became general among them, some giving the amount of ono and others thet of two days' work, The plate printers, numbering 90, con wiba ed $775. Additional subscriptions are \emmg made througnout the departments and among ou cola ns, Several bepevuient associations have taxen measures in the same direction, At a meeting of the employees of the Government Printing office this afternoon, Superintendent Clapp id that as he might be counted as an employee, he would there announce $100 os his share which sould accompany the Government office contribu. tion, In the absonee of Gov. Cooke, Acting Gov. Stan- ton called a mass meoting of citizens of te District of Columbia for last night for the purpose ot rais ing $50,000 in aid of the Chicago sufferers. About ali the id organizations of the Taise money Nomerous societies to day have ordere { their treasurers to furn over ali (hoir avail able funds to the Mayor of Chicago. [viv announced that the City Government will contribute $5),00. BOSTON CONTRIBUTES 100,000, A largo meeting was heid in Pavusil Hall, Boston, at noon yestertay, Mayor Gaston presiding. Ad- drossos wore delivered by the Mayor, Senators Wil som and Sumner, the Bon, A. H Rice, and others, and appropriate resolu‘ions adopted. A committee was appoiated to collect aid, and lideral eubscrip. tions were made on the spot. Henry B. Kidder, rensurer Of the meeting, was authorized to tele Eravu to tbe Mayor of Calcago to draw tor $100,000 at ones, Herkley Street Church Society, at the request of the Rev. Mr. Wright, contributed §1,000 in aid of the Ciiteago suffers: BUFFALO CONTRIRUTING MONET AND PROVISIONS. Ab AlTee, M98! PLO be cizensof Koala nels tthe Board ot roots yesterday moraing, Mayor Brush presiding, to #)mputhiae with the t it and tevling addr Mn Frothinevsm and Ash Comptroller of the Mato, The action of the City Council in issuing §100,(00 in city bonas for the Caicago sufferers was heartily en dorsed. In order to make the bonds imme vailable, personal guarantees were given by bo the amu of $107,000 ing the Board of e jon List for the relief of the suf peedily being filed with generous 1 car load of provisions left at 11 o'clock for Caicago. ALDANY’S GENEROSITY, At a meeting of citizens in Albany yesiorday, Mayor ‘Tnacher preniding, addresews of eymuatly or bie Chicago Aufferers were delivered by tie leva Dr. Clark and Darling, who urged woat liberal ¢ tributions, A commitiee was uppointed to collect ons and make arrangements wits tue Clerg. for taking up collections in their several churcues. Ihe Mayor esiled upon those present to hand in their subscriptions, and in a suort time $10. OW Was raised. The Burgess Corps iad alrea forwarded $1,000, aad the American Express Cou: Dany bave auuounced their readiness ve forward auythiug which anyone may Wish to wend. Tue Grand Commandery of Kn asion iu Albany, hope to 4 embers, chtt ‘Templars, now in $1,000 irda their DALTIMOR® NoT BEUIND, The Baltimore Cora and Flour Exchange yoster day morning appointed a Commitice of ten to s0- heit ¢ ations ioF relief of Chicago, and appro Driated $5.00), Which Wes immedsateiy tucivassd by HUiVidual SUDMCFILEL Ne to Over $7.00). TLe Stoce WunKe iso Made au AporOpFiation for the same ose, AL a citizens’ meeting in Siasonic ‘Te MeKim, Bsq., stuserived @0%0, aud adva F100 Hinosiate Use. the Baitiinore and Ouro and Pennsyivan a Katiroads forward tree ail » At the meeting of re House of Bis in Emanuel Cure. Mor country’ hus alreacy contrivuced ——— BRIGHAM YOUNG IN COURT Held in $5,000 Bailto Anewer the Charge © Aduliery Sart Lage Cirt, Oct. 9.—Brigham Young Co # afternoon, aud was eld to ball in $5,0%) to newer, He passed through the crowd from tna bats were re 1 other t sy demonstra i boar ‘ Cd With sixteen Giterent Wor During taw arg ment on this q) " Horace Greeley's Ofer to Compromise R jected, The Republican State Committee met in secret session in the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday to de vise means for a reorganization of the party in this city, After n long debate it was at length agreed to sead for the Hon. Horace Greeiey and request bim to make some proposition of compromise apon which the present diMealtios might bo settled. Ac cordingly & messenger wis despatched for the great Farmer of Chappaqua, and tue two soon made their appearauce before the Committer, D Groeioy was firm in the righteousnoss of ie own party's cause, but yielding to Vin earnest entreaties of " nented to advance th bwin Proposition for r peiiiation | 1 wing of the party shoul choses third. who saouid act as final referee ; an that Whatever this iuiter # decision should be, bo h parties were to abide t Tig Commities yleld nothing further g on hie back The Third Avenue Bank Panic The run on Third Avenue Say continued yestertay, From ‘Twenty fitu to Pw ty-siath street ex 4 the line of men waiting tor their money; aud ao) andreds of women stood on heother side The amodate irawa were sina One gent 1 bean waiting ecromd tree hy nterest included They were paid at th two ina minute, and When the hour for the bank—3 P} sine, hundreds were yor waiting, so that the payin had vo t t “1 $100 000 wan paid our. T tow in $30.00) more yes terduy stl $1,000 In advan eof t Brooklyn's Uappy Kamil bo King y Key an ry, and fougat last night, The apuroa > ‘ ver the lost Ofice were crowded withmen anxious to getinand 19 to Keep them out policemen aux 4 4 by aman a door was guard e, who Sir Dutcher called the att. His gavel wae an iron gas wren Iwasa scene of Nproar froin Deginuing 40 ebd, aud at a late Lour no thing bad bewu dune RIOTING IN PITLADELPHIA, — THE MILITIA'S RATTLE WITH THE MOD IN FIGHTM STREET, Rioters Killed or Wer 4-k Volice under Arrest-T A Wom! aiLaparrura, Oct. 10.—Scrious riots have broken out in the southern part of the city, Four or five men have been killed and twenty five wound: ed. Three brigades of militia have been ordered to the scene of the trouble, Hagcerty, « lieutenant of police, has been arrested by order of Judge Allison, And held tn $1,000 to answer the charge of obstruct ing the poils. At one division of the Fourth Ward voting was suspended for a half an hour by the police, A novel mode of asaailing colored voters was adopted in this Ward by pelting them with flour, In the Fiftesoth Ward Mies Carrie 8. Barnkam, baving been previ+ oasly tered, tendered her voto, She was ace companied by her counsel, Mr. Kilgore, ‘Tne judge informed her that he was tostracted not to recoive her vote. After a long the lady pro- ereded to the Court of Conn ste ap plication to the beach for a mandanus Jutzo Alit fou refused to hear the argurent, sayiag that lit had no power to tesue @ menvamus ‘The trouble Arst commenced betwoan the white and colored men at Kiguth ond Fitewater #treew, The crowd, drawing together @y the coport of a Aight, numvered nearly 1,00, A shower of paving siones Was fired, and the fieht began in earnest, Pistols wore usell, and a number of men armed With Bright new musket fed and fred into the Crowd, “The battle continned as the crowd passed up ight street to Lombard, down Lombard to heventi, down Beventh to Bout and throuct Sou to Siath street. ‘The strove, courts, and alieye ore swariniag wilh men, who Mred’ upon euch other, During the Oght in Lombard street, colored men SIF Vii muskels caine out of an alley just be. tow Berenth street, and churged upoa a squad of police, Who were backed by @ host Of shirt-sieerad supporters, apd beng beaten back, retrested to @ avern, taking UD Uieir position at second-story windows. From this position thoy fred a vole; whic was returned with spir Utes the weishborhood revert los, paving stonos, and ricks woisiled through the air. Chief of Folice Mulholiand did bis best with big ‘mall force to qeil the disturbance. He did not succeed, however, until over a sco been wounded, and, as reported, dozen men were slo\ in Lombard off by their friends, Coivt Muluollan] resiored order atler taking the ringleaders of both parties into custody, ‘The riot is aitrivutable to the ill- tof the colored voters at Kizhth and ter streets and more oF lens at all tae polls ie ine Fourth acd Fiitn Wards, ©The following is a list of the casualti reported : Admitied (0 Hospital—James 8\¢ vari, hoad badly cut; Henry Lewis (colored), stint in tie head and Jot by @ policoman at Sixto a Frank Brook, officer of the Si atruck in the Komuch at Sixth Dauiel Redding, struck ia rizot tempo; William Perry (colorea), bot in hip; Stephen Baker (color- ot in side; Charies H. Davie, aged 18 rears, 89 far as ‘Suippen streets; tick with @ brick on the bead, and badly cut Bidshiono, sot in lex ov unk men at stir and Souty streets; Lewis Baliean, #hoe in leg; Wa. I. Cooper (colored), cut with « ragor on head 4nd rigot shoulder, and end of right thamb cut of 5 Jolin Pausett, wouuoed at 405 Oxord street; Frank Ford, suot th wide at Eichth and Bouin streets; Jopn Montgomery, wounded in (ace and head; n (colored), soot in face at Eienth (colored), killed on bis own Schanius Lenliy, Principal of doorstep with an axe the Colured High Schvol, slut dead during aM are HORA VE Tiree meee ” —— THE ELECTIONS. > The First Despatch from Penneyivania~ The State Kepublican by Tew Thousand. Puivavecenta, Pa., Oct. 10.—The Sixth Ward of the city gives Biddle. Democrat, for Mayor, 365 majority. Democratic gain, 25. Kieventh Ward—Biddie, 556 majority. Republica gain, 15. ‘Thirteenth Ward—Stokeloy, 492 majority. Re publican gai», 61 Siztaenth Ward - cratic gain of 15 divisions are wanting broken by a mob. Stokeley 2 Demo Your boxes were 42 majority 9 vote ian and in Fiith Ward.—Biddle (Dem,) 56 mojority, a Repub- Hean gain of 64 Tweltth Ward.—Middle 77 mojority, a Republics gain of 38. One division is wanting Seventeenth Ward.—Biddie, 902 majority; @ Democratic gain of Carbon County —Nesquenoning gives a Republie ‘an majority of 47 Columbia County.—Maia townshi Domo cratic majority of 83; a Repu Montgomery County ' 1 Nor. ristown is 129; a Ropudtican loss o Delaware County.—Ieturan} iudicate at Least 1,90 Republican majority RECEIVING THE NEWS AT THR FIFTH AV, HOTEL tite and owlyent Republicans of t Jobin 1 Davenport, ¢ Blake, Hugh Hastings, ant ox-A yma si muaw. a 1 at evening at Uy Aveni tlotel to ro. ‘ resuit, Birly ¢ ¢ Wes cane Hat Philodwpita hid gone un by al 200 mjority, and that y Lees alec Kepuihicane except y. Tas THR DEMOCRATS CONCEDE THE STATE Tans 0, Oct 10 4 + gone Roped. » 10,080 Enrron Patiior, Obio aud Lowa Plections, 1 i nay ° ‘ a The Republicans Carry Newark 1 1 pia n 1 Bgelom Wards hen (Galery ‘ x 5 ' é ui 5 itm % 14, ie the Rey # elect AlJermen in the F end, Toird, Fourth, bixub, Eighth, Ninth, Taiev Fourweonth, ant Biteonin Warde, nd tie De erate in tle Filth, Seventh, Tenth, kleventh, and Twelfth Wards. The Repudlicaus hw > chosem, their entire ity icKut THE SEVENIY IN CONCLAVE Princely Con fous for tho Support ef the War nguinet many The ( we of Seventy had f their in ea an Foley. The meeting was & uaa 0 « ‘ 1 progress, but Aco tion from tue Directors of the Bowe y Savings Bink was read, ¢ivine $8.00) to the Commition. ‘This @imaved Uearty applinse from all adie old enaps 22 ne. 1 printed pamp Was suumnitted coms Mr, JacksouS. Beluiig arose to explain in regard tot erty . y Mr. doin Keyser Ile t the as vent hat Loew ainnosed of f ’ . f eie with a vinw to. seeurit ’ ‘ A Good Man's Kear unan mouriy r bard by acclamation