Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

Tho confederation created yesterday upon
our streets, an Dsnks, business houses and
IN every oOn osivsble place where business
10 trAasectsI, OF tbs sssrtliug ietelligenoe
that Chicago vas wrapt 10 flames, was in.
Telegraph sad nsvs-pap or
oIioes we're immediAEely besiegsd by oil
GLASSES OF people aaxioss 10 know the real
situation aud learn the details Of the "grsat
COAT Agranon," and during the entire
day every word from the smOuldering ruins
Of the III fslsd ouy vas read with svidity.
la order 70 relieve the gensral anxiety for
infOrmauoa the Herald proceeded 70 ic,as
''eKras' - fast - dispatches we're received,
aud soon the streets we're filed with inter
es'sd and curious people, eager for later
news The morning dispatches told sics-
sning tale, but al noon ell hope for the great
commercial center Of the Northwest was
crushed oy . Telegram stating that GIL was
Loaf; that Ihs entire business part OF the eiv
was destroyed. and that the hre memo nsld
carnival over the Olseksnsd RUNS OF great
CITY aad the dssolstsd homes oil Ahundred
thousand souls.
A. the news, terrible and chilling, spread
through the clIy, . new gloom settled upon
our business coon nuai,y, aud sll Glasses Sc
riou.ly began 10 realize 10 ia fullest meas
urs the great calamity that, in reducing the
most suIsrprising city IN the world 90 ashes.
had dealt . violent blow ~ the commercial
and business interests of the great north west.
Be iI said 10 the credit Of QuIacy, but little
time wAs spent in measuring the loss before
. move was ihNugurated for the relief Of the
suffering. A Telegram was promptly for
wArdsd 10 the distressed city, rendering it'
homeless and destitute people whatever wa'
within the power OF our cIIlzeus. Arrange
meuu we're promptly made, and soou cal
loads Of provisions were speeding with rail
road Velocity 10 the scene OF the great dis
asSsr, the sponssDeous offering Of the pros
porous people Of Quincy TO the prosrGt
thousands Of ill-fAIsG Chicago.
Tais was . timely aAd substantial ex
preston Of sympathy, but there were ex
prsssions ia less subs,sntisl form tbs
we're none the less sincere aud earnest
Chicago was the great city Of our peerlss
state aud OF the norIhw esl, and our relAuou
with her people have been intimate sn
mutually satisfactory and profitable. Oh
eNgo, too, had bssn the Wonder Of the az,
The uaexsmpled activity Of her people, th
astounding enterprise Of her business met
the unprecedented rapidly of her crowd
her brat importance as . railroad and cou
oerc,al centre and she magnitude of tb
manufacturing and producing interests Tbs
received their impulse and life from be
great heart, all tended TO inpress our cit
2sRs with . sense OF the calamity that hefe
the nortNw west and the nation in her d.
struction.
IL will be dificult to estimate the direC
loss Chicago has sustained by this terribl
visitation, but Who will undertake to 81
proximA,e the vast aggregate Of losses tbs
are indirectly to result therefrom tt
nHguHtion Of business, the blocksding
commerce. the crash upon insurance an
banking institutions, the depression of raj
road stocks aud she consequent increase
frelRhts, all must be taken in the result
the stupeDdous aggregate Of losses that Il
fire 6end wrought in single day in Il
burning OF Chicago. QUINCY Herald.