Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-12
THE POST OFFICE.


THE POST OFFICE.
The Post Office is ROW on Calumet av
enue near Twenty second street, and The
officials are doing all in their power to ar
range aud systemic affairs.
THE PRESIDENT
has telegraphed to have the people feed al
theexpense of the government, and three
thousand troops will arrive this afternoon
to preserve order and prevent loss of life
by lawlessness and violence.
LYNCH-LAw AND REvoI.yERs
Reports are flying thick and fast of the
shooting and hanging of roughs in the
west and south divisions of the city, fol
attempting to set fire to buildings. AS
near as our reporter could learn four men
were hanged to lamp-posts, one shot, and
TWO stabbed In the west division, and two
shot on the south side.
TRACK OF TUE FIRE FIEND.
The track of the fire is from the corner
OF Dekoven and Clinton, east one halt
block; north one block to Forouer
thence east to the river; thence north to
FOLK; thence east across the river to
Clark; thence north to Harrison; thence
east to the Lake; thence north to Lake
Fark' thence west to the river; thence
south along the river to Adams street
thence west to Clinton street; thence
south to the place of beginning.
EXToRTIoNs.
In many instances the charges of ex-
preSsmen and transfers were inhuman in
the extreme. Fifty dollars was charged
to takea load of furniture from the North
to West Sides, and two hundred dollars
was paid to take load of trunks from the
Palmer House to Cottage Grove. On the
South Side, grocers inspired only by a
beastly greed for gain charged one dollar
per pound for candles, and other things
were advanced in proportion. In view of
this
THE COMMON COUNCIL
at NEE ting held last night passed a res
olution directing the police force to
promptly arrest any merchant or laborer
who should be found charging more for
an article or for labor than he would I'M
der ordinary circumstances.
sYMPATHIsERs
The people of Joliet sent in this morn
ing for the use of the hungry and naked
that throng our streets, three thousand
loayes of bread, and other neccssaries.
NEW FIRES
were set last night in several places on the
side, and one on the corner of Thirtietb
and Butterfeld streets, but were put out
by vigilant citizens, and wherever the in.
cendiaries were caught they were shot or
hanged without mercy.
SEARCHING THE RUINS,
iousands of people at an carly hour
this morning were pouring into the
burned district from the West and South,
divisions, and instituted search for safes
and such articles as had escaped the
flames. Several safes had been recovered
at noon to-day, some of which had pre-
served their contents in tolerablv good
condition, while in others they were com
pletely destroyed.
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
1t is, at this writing, an absolute limos.
sibility to give anything like correct
estimate of the loss of life in this terrible
sea OF flame; but were all, from the best
authority we can obtain, of the opinion
that it will reach 1900 to 1900. In MANY
places on the moth side the streets are
thickly strewen with disigured corpses,
and mutilated beyond recognition. In
some instances, whole blocks of houses
We're surrounded and swallowed I'D in the
seething mass of flames, inmates and all
together
BURNED TO DEATH
Long strings of railroad cars. which
were standing on the tracks. were seen on
ire at different points. Long reaches of
wooden sidewalks were burned. In some
cases, wagons would be loaded with goods
ready to be conveyed to a place of safety
when burning brand would light on the
contents of the wagon, and all would
quickly be consumed; and so we shall
have incidents by the thousands at fast as
time will allow them to be gathered up.
AS we close all is indescribable confusion.
and the fire is still raging over that vast
area of our doomed city.
THE TELEGRAPHs.
All the telegraph Offices in the CITY, are
in ashes and dispatches are being sent to
offices in the suburbs for transmission to
different parts of the state.
THE RAILROADS.
No trains for the South and East are
leaving the city this forenoon, as all the
cars which remained there over Sunday
are consumed. The incoming trains are
all behind time owing to fires raging in
the woods and prairies The evening
trains will probably start out on time.
WATER AND GAS.
The water and the gas works, are both
destroyed and probably for some time, the
only supply of the former will be from the
Lake, and a substitute for the latter will
have to be employed
THE BRIDGES
All the bridges across the Chicago
River, from Van Buren, to the Lake, have
been burned and the only means Of get
ting from one division to the other, is bv
the tunnels and the entrance to them are
badly blockaded
THE NEWSPAPERS.
The newspaper offices have all or near
ly all been swept out of existence, and
their material destroyed, and no papers
have been or will be issued down town
to-day. The Sum- being the only journal
which has escaped the confagration.
AID FROM MILWAUKEE.
Aid was telegraphed for to Milwaukee
at three O'Clock, and number of fire en-.
gines were at once sent forward by ex