The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-11
THE BULLETIN.
YAI F|RE F'|ByD !
$4,000, 900 Lost.
michigan Terrace burned.
Prominent Citizens Homeless.
The Limits of the Fire.
Checked in the south Division.
Nears-Isenliag Scenes.
100000 People ;snu.e.css.
Women and Children Destitute.
Women and children Destitute
Touching Appeals for Aid.

CHICAGO, Noon, October G.-TGc awful
work Of destruction goes on with reent-
Jess fury. From Harrison street south TO
Division street north, and from the river
TO the lake nm area four miles long by one
wide, the flames hayr swept everything be-.
fore them
II is estimated that at least one hundred
thousand people are homeless and in a
suffering condition The streets in the
districts still unburned are linel for miles
with such household good. a. have been
saved from destruction.
Most cenerou. offers Of assistance in
money, food, or anything wanted. are
coming from every city and town possible
by telegraph. The mayor has responded
to several offers, asking that cooked food
be sent as soon as possible.
Firemen are on the way here from St.
Louis, Cincinnati, and other cities.
The water works are entirely destroyed.
They are now blowing up buildings in
the line ofthe fire to attempt to arres, its
progress.
LATER-It j, now believed the spread
of the fire southwark has been STAYED at
Harrison street, but on the north side there
is no diminution Of it. fury, and this en-
tire division Of the city is evidently doomed
to utter destruction.
There are grave fears that the flames
will spread to the west side Of the north
branch Of the river anl the inhabitants
on the streets nearest the river are al
ready moving to place ofsupposed greater
safety. The Western Union Telerraph
have now six wires working east and
south, and are running INTO temporary
office, corner of State and Sixthtcenth
streets.
The Northwestern railroad r running
trains on both Of its branches, which are
crowded with fleeing citizens Iti: now
positively asserted by some that the works
are still intact; hut that the water has
been hut of from tho South and West
Divisions on account Of the quantity being
used on the North side. \ reliable gentle
man just arrived from the North Division
bridge the joyful intelligence tina. the
waterworks are uniujurcd. God grant it
may prove true
1t is impossible now 70 give even an
approximately correct statement of loses,
but fain. idea may be formed when it is
stated that every bank in the city. except
to small savings institutions, one on Twen-
ty-second street, in the South Division, and
one on Randolph, in the West Division,
are destroyed, Also the wholesale
stores, and all large retail establishments
the Post-otce, Courthouse, Chamber Of
Commerce, and every hotel in South Di-
vision except Michigan Avenue Hotel, |
which is standing on the extreme southern
limit of the fire, escaped though badly |
scorched; every newspaper ofiice-the |
Tribune building having finally sue
cumbcd, every theatre; six of the largest
elevators; the immense depots of the
Michigan Southern and Illinois Central
railroad-both the passenger and freight
depots Of the latter more than score OF
and much Of the shipping in the
river.
Men who were milionarcs yesterday
morning are nearly penniless to-day But
more terrible than all is the awful GER
talnty that many humal beings have
found fiery graves, how many no one can
tell, perhaps no one can ever tell, but
some are known to have pershcd, and
there is heart sickening fear that the vic
Tins of the fiery monster may be counted
by scores. Hundreds OF horses and cows
have been burned in stables, and on the
north side numbers, though released from
confinement, were SO bcwildered and con-
fused by the sea of fire which surrounded
them that they rushed wildly to and fro,
lttcring cries of fright and pain, until
'corched and killed Any attempt at n
description of the scenes of this appalling
calamity would be idle. The simple facts
ire, that the once great city of Chicago is
destroyed that hundreds of millions of
her active capital have vanished, and that
nearly ose-third of her inhabitants are
homeless dependents, and any attempt to
'mbellish would be but mockery
As thi. awful day draws to close
of anxious eyes watch the dense
clouds which still roll over the burnt dis
Lrict, with evident dread that sudden
change of wind may turn the flames upon
the portion Of the city yet spared. There
seems, however, little cause for apprehcn-
sion, and rcinforcements of fremen from
other cities are constantly arriving.
Col. j. j. S. Wilson, superintendent of
telegraph, is in receipt of dispatches from