Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-18
It about u o'clock last night the sheet

te oIiN11 WOouSll WHICH,
communicated the fire to the Armory,
and soon to the South Side Gas Works,
the immense gasometer exploding with
a fearful detonation, heard all over the
city. Then commenced the fearful raw
ages, which in few hours laid the en-
tire South Side in ashes, north of. Har-
rison. The post Office and CAstom
House, the Chamber of Commerce, the
Court House, and the rest soon went
down in the ocean of fire and smoke.
In brief the following prominent
buildings have perished with. in almost
every case, their entire contents: The
New Jerusalem Church, on Adams
street, and the Catholic Church on Des-
PLANES street.
The Journal office, the Tribune, the
Times, the Republican, the Post, the
Mail, the Stats Zeitung, the Union,
and many other publications.
Crosby's Opera House, McVicker's
Theatre, Hooley's Opera House, Dear
born Theatre, and Woods Museum
First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Union, Northwestern, Manufacturers
Cook County, and Illinois National
Banks.
The Second Presbyterian Church, st.
Paul's Universalist Church, Trinity
EpiscopaD Church.
The magnificent depot of the Chica-
go, Rock Island and Pacific and Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
roads, on Van Buren street, at the
head of La Sale street. The great
Central Union depot, and the Wells
street depots of the Chicago and North
western Railroad.
The National Elevator, corner of
/ Co. s Elevator, corner Market and the
river, Hiram Wheeler's Elevator, on
same corner as the above, the Galena
Elevator, corner Rush street bridge and
river, and GA" of the Illinois Central,
neer the Illinois depot and the basin.
fremont House, Sherman House,
Briggs House, Metropolitan, Palmer,
Adams, Bigelow, European, (Burk's)
Garden City, and the new Pacific in
process of erection on Clark and La
Sale streets.
The following promin ent business
houses are in ashes: Field, Letter &
Co., J. Y. Farwell's block, and all the
magnificent blocks in that locality. The
Lake Side Publishing Company's new
building, on Clark street, Terrace Row,
on Michigan avenue, and adjacent resi-
dences
Farwell Hall burned at about four
o'clock this morning
/ The great breweries on the North
Side are gone. In fact, as stated above,
the entire South and North Sides, from
Harrison street northwardly, with a few
isolated buildings left standing in some
remarkable manner, are in hopeless
ruins.
THE HOTELS.
All the prominent hotels in the city
are in ruins-the Pacific, Sherman,
fremont, Briggs, Palmer, Bigelow,
Metropolitan, Matteson-besides doz-
ems of other smaller caravansaiies scat
tered over the East side from the river
to the lake, and from Van Buren to
Water street The destruction of prop
erty is most terrible, and the scenes to
be witnessed on the streets are heart
rending. Business, of course, is en-
tirely suspended and everything on
wheels which can be made available
for purposes of moving are pressed into
service for getting goods out of the
reach of the devouring elements. Wa
bash and Michigan avenues, as far
south as Twenty-second street, are lined
with household goods and merchandise,
and guarded by weary and weeping
women and children.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
building, which stood the heat for a
long time, came in for it's place among
the list of sufferers, and soon after the
eo1 % +hn ro,,,.4 th,o
building lay a mass of smouldering
ruins.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE
building was destroyed, as was also the
whole block adj joining on the north and
west of the same.
PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED.
All the daily paper offices are closed.
The Journal, Post, Republican and
Times are'among those destroyed. The
Tribune building being fre-proof,
stood the siege well, and will proba-
bly, make its appearance as usual to-
morrow. The Stats Zeitung Ger
MANI, and Evening Mail, which were in
the same building with the Evening
Post, suffered the fate of their neigh
bor The Auxiliary Printing House of
A. n. Kellogg, together with Spalding
& Lemons job office, are in ruins. The
job offices of Rand & McNally, Came
ron, Amberg, & Hoffman, Beach & Bar-
nard, Rounds & Kane, Culver, Page &
Hoyne, Jameson & Morse, and all OF
the prominent job offices of the city
are gone.
THE COURT HOUSE
took fire about l o'clock, and at q the
old Court House proper was eveloped
in flames, the tall steeple falling about
3 o'clock. The spires came down with q
J crash, which created an insutferable
: heat on all sides of the square.
THE POsT-oFFICE,
after stemming the tide for hours, was
forced to surrender to the flames, and
about 5 o'clock on Monday morning il
was completely "gutted p" by fire. AL
the buildings adjacent to and in the vi
cinity of the post office are IN ruins.
: A Ride Through Mont Gents Tunnel.
A correspondent of the London
Times writing from Turin, Sept. 10TH
K describes a ride through Mont Gems
E tunnel as follows: "Our carriage was
+ the last III the line, and, as the engine
, worked backwards, (our windows be-
, ing open), had not the least inconven
ience from smoke or steam. There was
no perceptible difference between the
inside and outside air, and our com
panions slumbered through nearly the
. whole distance. The fact that the en-
glne was IN our rear was certainly IL
, our favor, but the unanimous verdict O.
all who had come through in the morn
. ing went far to establish that they had
also experienced nc unpleasant sensa
tion, and the difference of temperature
! could only be detected by Valvason't
= glasses, which marked few degrees o
warmth in the tunnel. The highest de
! gree to-day has been Is degrees cent?
grade, Grafton's glass. In the previous
trip the rise was to q degrees. Oul
pace throughout the crossing seemed
: fairly rapid, and the even time EN-
S ployed, both in the up and down jour
= no iDhf 4an CI