Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-10-13

river ana slahe, COiiSuLIiii8 dii tDt pIiiiCI-
pal business portion of the city upon Van
Buren,, Jackson, Adams, Monroe, Madi-
son. Washington, Randolph, Lake and
South Water streets, and upon Market,
Franklin, Wells, La Sale, Clark, Dear
born, State, Wabash and Michigan avenues.
All this portion of the city, wherein was
it's vqss wealth. and most beautiful and
costly structures, full of merchandise and
valuable property of every description.
which made it the pride of our western
world, went down in the general havoc and
rain. Crossing at Wells street bridge, the
fire tiend sped onward, taking a northeast
erly direction to Lincoln Park, full two and
half miles from this last point, involving
all that portion Of the city east to the lake
in total destruction, and the latest dis
patches left the consuming scourge creep
ing westerly toward the North Branch, On
which are large rolling mills, furnaces, tan
neries, distilleries and coal yards. The
whole Of this great confagration covers
| over 1900 acres of ground Of the most val
| liable portions of Chicago, and involves
loss Of $500,O00,0OO.
We clip the following from the special
reporter Of the Milwaukee Wisconsin:
CHICAGO, Oct. 81 P. NJ.
The | o'clock train from Milwaukee
! landed us here at the Northwestern depot
at o'clock. We passed miles Of fence,
and fields, and woods on fire, ten or TWEEN
| ty miles north from here. Five miles out
! dense masses Of smoke, with tongues of
fame. were seen enveloping the whole
| Il "a i1ac
out teams Of household goods were
streaming in ali directions. Every street
and square and corner in the outskirts of
tho city were piled with furniture, around
which crouched despairing tamllles.
There was dense jam at the depot VIII
stacks of goods in every open space.
Reaching Randolph street ion the West
Side, made for the top of the great Un-
ion Printing Block, just off from the
bridge Looking towards the lake, over
two miles north and one mile south, form
ing circuit of more than five miles, was
presented dense blank Of smoking ruins
and desolaton. But two buildings in all
that vast area are saved: one a river
block on the corner of Market and Ran
dolph, and the other the grain elevator,
outside of the Illinois Central Depot. On
the north side of the river, extending two
miles to Lincoln Park, not a solitary
building remains. Charley Strong,
former Milwaukee printer, who was with
me, reports the spectacle, seen from the
building top last night, as passing all de-
scription. 1t was more than a Moscow.
The great Court House bell tolled till one
o'clock AT two O'Clock, the whole roof
and windows were shooting forth flames,
when the great bell and s.ecple went down
with q crash The walls Of the Sherman
House fell at four o'clock.
Descending to the street from the build
ing, determined, if possible, to penetrate
the whole distance to the lake, and see
what was what with my own eyes |
crossed the Randolph street bridge, and
pushed eastward, towards the Court House.
On either hand, as far as the eye can see,
is presented vast lines of shapeless walls,
rising from fallen masses Of brick
and iron and stone. Everywhere is blind
ing smoke and heat, flaming up from bur
ming ruins. The great Court House is a
blackened shell, peeled and Quilted and ru-
ined in every part The Tribune office has
Jared no better, and should be blown down
with cannon balls. The frc-proof Post
| Off e preserves its form without, but is
perfectly Quilted and ruined within. All
the great BLOCKS, hotels and stores are
tumbled 10 the ground, only fragment OF
sides and corners remaining. The iron
rails Of the streets are bent up, the pave
mcnt burnt in deeply, and tangled tclc-
graph wires tripping up passers among
the ruins noticed numbers Of persons
drunk or asleep about the Court House
Square. Opposite the Sherman was bal
burnt corpse. Hardly any large stocks of
goods were saved. Draymen and cartmen
charged $40 load for taking off goods,
and not one in twenty Of the number need
cd could be found at that. The ruin is
terrible hey ond computation. 100, 900 peo-
ple are homeless and half of them strip.
ped of all. There are $4,000, poor people
souatted on the lake shore for two miles
north. | have seen thousand families al
least stretched along fences and yards, with
the women holding children in their arms
and men and larger children stretched up
! on the ground. Il wish | was dead,
| sobbed ont one poor women alone and
| d. ISOLATE with her child. Shopmen and
Merchants are seen by the hundreds
crou ling among the ruins. Said
one to another at the conrt house ruin
1 4,Smith 'et me congratulate you. Yester
/ day, I ws worth $40, 600, to-day, I've got
1 one shirt for my back and $l,40 in my
\ pocket. Ian going to leave Chicago to-
morrow, but u ID only knows where" A
] moment after caioe up an Irish woman, in
l curing if had S, en- any directors Of the
State Savings Bank. "Sbe had $4,000
she said. an the bank, the earnings Of
/ hard labor for tw enty years" These are
,ealy two among t, II thousand samples oil
! Tain.
am told tonight hat the fire steamers
are all "bust," hardly any playing since
neon. There is no water to be had. The
fire at ten tonight is rag. ng mostly at
ttse north end From a high elevation IT
looks like "a hell Of flame" Oyel the vast
sweep to the east and south glarcs .'thous
and smouldering craters, lighting VI
thousand Of broken walls and colum. rs.
Over all rises the thought of heavy heart7
and crushed hopes. Poor Chicago
f. A. NJ.
Mornonism--The Beginning Of the
End.
The telegraph informs us Of the arrest
Of Brigham Young, at Salt Lake City, on
Monday, for violation of the laws Of the
United States in the practice of Mormon
ism. This is an important beginning for
the maintainancc of the public laws
| throughout the land, and more SO because
it is aimed at the head and front Of a null
LITIGATION long defiant. 1t is the beginning
of the end-the death knell of the doctrine
of plurality of wives-the wiping out of