The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-11

venting the further spread OF the flames. The vast
PLAIN is covered with people wandering about,
seeing the evidences OF q wealth that has CON-
pletely vanished In names and smoke.
DETERMINED TO RETRIEVE THE Loss-THE NEWS
PAPERS.
few business men with some nerve are seeking
houses for business on the west Side Rooms that
rented last week for $50 now readily command
$4,000. ThereRTe not many OF these, but enough to
allow few D0lness men to start. The newspapers
will be started again In few days or weeks
Mr.. Joseph Medill OF the Tribune. who Is one OF
the heaviest sufferers succeeded yesterday In leas
ing brick building on Washington street, ut the
tunnel. he also purchased two single cylinder
presses used IN q job Office on the west side, ana
hos
TELEGRApHED EAST FOR PAPER AND TYPE,
there being nothing OF the kind left here.
Mr.. Story, OF the Times, will erect rough one
story building and begin the issue Of that paper
soon as material can be procured.
The Journal Is provided for on the west side.
Tne Post, Republican and stats Zeit,ng will also
arrange Tor business as coon as practicable. but
everything must come from elsewhere. There Is
nOthin CLEFT.
WATER WATER WATER
Water for drinking and household use " secured
from the lake and the parks ana for horses from the
river. There are Thousand people camped about
the arteslan wells, four miles out, and perhaps ~
many more at the lake and on Fullerton and Victor
avenues near the prairie.
FEEDING THE PEOPLE
The people are being fed In the remaining
churches, schOOlhouses, in sheds and by the road
sides. 1t was cold and chilly this morning. causing
great suffering.
FEARS OF FINE WEATHER
It Ia now clearing mp again; but instead OF this
being welcome the people are praying earnestly for
more rain, 70 fearful are they Of continuance Of
the flames.
False Repors--The Fire has Not Again
Brokcn Ous-More lncesdiaries Hanged
ASSOCIATED PRESS OFFICE, |
NEW YORK, Oct. 10-S r. M.
The report received a. late hour this afternoon
ana buetined throughout the city that the fIe had
broken out again in chicago In quarter hitherto
untouched happily proves untrue.
General Palmer, Vice President Of the western
Union Telegraph Comapny, on reading the report,
telegraphed directly to General Slayer, Superin-
tendent OF the Company, now at Chicago, for con-
frmatlon and received the following reply
CHICAGO, Oct. iO-4 p. M.
A rre starred in small building on Thirty first
street, but was speedily put ont.
The incendiaries are busy, but seven or eight
hanged or shot at sight ANSON STAGER.
A CITIZEN FIRE-FIGHTER'S STORY.
The Ungovernnble Fury or the Firc-Thc Roar
Of tho Tiames-The Fire Working Back
Against the Whatsoever the River Among tho
Wooden Dwel.iugs-Meanpess and ExtOrtion
Barncd to Death.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10, 1871
The following reliable and graphic description OF
| the fire has been furnished by gentleman VINO par
ticipated in the work Of snbduing the names during
their continuance
.'NOne but an eye witness form an idea Of the
fury and power OF the fre-fend as he reyelled
among the palatial buildings and warehouses on the
south side, with
THE WIND BLOWING HURRICANE.
At times IL seemed but the work OF moment for
the fire to enter the ends OF buildings 'front.'
ing on Randolph, Lake and Water streets, and re-
appear at the north doors and windows, belching
forth In fierce names which often licked the oppo-
site buildings. an d then the names issuing forth
from The buildings on both sides OF the street
" onld unite and present
SOLID MASS OF FIRE,
completely filing the street from side TO side and
shooting upward hundred feet into the air above
the housetops in their mad career. Thus was street
after street filled with fame and the exultation OF
the fire nend was given vent to IN
REsoUHDING ROAR,
which can only he eGualled by combining the noise
of the ocean when Its waters are driven during
tempest upon the rocky beach " It'll the howl OF the
blast. Huge walls would t0Dple and fall into the
sea Of fire without apparently giving o sound, the
roar OF the fierce element was great that all
minor sounds were swallowed no, and tile fall OF the
walls was only perccptible to the eyes, II the
reader viii recall 10 ms mind the ferces snowstorm
in his experience and
IMAGINE THE SNOW TO BE FIRE
a. surged hitler and thther before the fury OF the
wind they win be able TO form faint conception OF
the names as they ragged through the streets OF our
doomed CITY. Many OF the buildings situated
along South water street buried their red
not walls In the water or the river,
into which they plunged with a hiss. The heat
was SO intense at times from some OF the burning
buildings that they could not be approached within
$50 feet which accounts for the manner in which
THE FIRE WORKED BACK.
and often against .hc wind. The fire, after reach
ing the business portion Of Randolph and south
Water Streets eaped the river to the north side in
an incredible short space Of time, and thence
among the wooden buildings on that side reached
the lake shore, after touching block alter block OF
happy dwellings with It's fierce blasts.
Such q scene
OF UTTER POwHRL EssNEss
in face OF an enemy was never presented than that
OF these people trying to combat The nre hend for
the combat was not OF long duration. The people
bowed their heads in anguish Of spirit and SUFFERED
the fend to have untrammeled SWAY.
while there are many instances OF generous devo-
ton on the part OF rich and poor IN dividing with
the destitute. there are