Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-20
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON THE
GREAT DISASTER Y

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George Francis Train has been heard
from. A few nights since he. delivered
lecture in Atchison Kansas. We sub
ioin report of portion Of his re-
marks. and have no doubt but that they
will be read with interest. He said, on
coming forward;
| am not in the mood for speakingt to-
nieht. / am down-hearted, as all OF US
must be, at the terrible news that comes
hourly over the wires. The greatest cal
amity, outside Of civil war, that has ever
visited our Shores has fallen upon us in
the destruction Of Chicago. lSensa-
ton. Chicago, the Prairie City, the
Young Giant, of twenty years growth,
the center of score of railways, where
a hundred trains day bring all the
world. Applause. Chicago. the 81.
dorado of the corn country, the City. Of
Churches, Rings aud Combination, has
again marked itself in history as the
Champion City Of Fires. 0vertoppipg
all other fires ia the world as it surpasses
all other towns in its marvellous growth,
enterprise and assured wealth sensa-
tom all its banks, all. its insurance
companies, all its newspapers, all its
railway palaces, all its Sherman and
fremont Houses, all its down town
churches, all its magnificent palace
stores, all its public buildings are in
ashes. Sensatlon. Six miles square
of wealth--stone and iron--ten thOns-
and houses in ashes, and one hundred
thousand human beings sleeping home
less, houseless, on the prarie. Sensa-
! ton. Sum up the great fires OF 1.-The
mast, and, all told. this eclpses them.all.
/ stood in Moscow in the kremhn. and
surveyed the ground where thetire de
| stroyed Napoleon's hopes; damage, say
100000, 900. =,
| | surveyed the space, the other day
in Yeddo. where SO many miles OF build
inps were swept away-SS, 900, euO-
/ / visited Constantinople, and where
the fend of fame leyeled so many build
ings-$5, 100000. -.
In our.own land are the leading fires
| in nv mind New York, September Il,
1856, 1893 houses-$5, 000. 900.
| New York, August Z, ITS, 800 houses
-$4000.000. y t ~
New York, December l6, 1888, 69S
stores--$lS 900, O0O. slf.s.H
Pistsbarg, 1855, 900, 900.
St Louis, 1885, 900, 900.
San Francisco, ls49, 80, 81, several
fres-$l0,OOO,0 1000.
! Portland, July4, 1866, the fre-cracker
calamity-$l0, 100000.
Add for all other fires in America,
great and small-$20, 600, 900.
Now add the gigantic fire in London,
in 1856. where 400 buildings fell-$5O,-
900 600. Aggregate, $3.50, OOO, 600.
This was two centuries of disaster.
Ont here, in less than TIVE days, we have
wiped out, according TO report, twice TINS
fearful loss, say $500, 0OO, 200, OF accu-
INFLATED wealth, labor and industry.
An who have seen Train will recog-
nize him in this outburst. 1t is him in
manner. matter and ring. The report
continues
Who can account for this power Of
foretelling events2 This making out the
future? For ten years the papers OF the
world have had in their columns my pre-
J dictions-public speeches, foretelling the
: great events tina. startle mankind, lIha'
IS So The building Of the Pacific rail
road, the saving of the Union, the down
fall Of Mcclellan, the assassination o.
Lincoln, the impending panic wal
street SPECIFY so near at hand, the down
: fall of Napoleon, the breaking up o.
Tammany, and the wiping out Of Grant
the death of England's Queen and the
English Republic are simply questions o
few months time. Sensation Two
hundred American audiences have seer
t me map out on blackboard the de
7 struction of the Doomed City OF Sin,
, by the melting Of the mountains Of ice
OVERLOOKING Lake Superior into Lake
Michigan and sinking Chicago. lsen
J. sation.
e As this renowned orator will soon b.
e in our city, we may expect treat il
e his description of the Chicago fire, as h
K is said to have been an eyewitness.