The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-10-12
. L. LONGLEY, EDITOR.
THE CHICAGO. FIRE.
The City Burned up
Prom nine to eighteen square miles
swept clean.-1oss, Hundreds Of
1illions.-Want and Destitu-
ton. - 100 600 people
Homeless and many
lives lO0t.-Aid
from Abroad.

lives lO0t.-Aid
from Abroad.
The terrible fire, the half the results
OF which are not known and can not be
told, first broke forth about II o'clock
last Saturday night. On Sunday ev-
ening, before the first fire was fairly
subdued, COW kicked over 4 kerosene
lamp in q stable on Taylor Street, and
thus started the most terrible conaagra-
ton ever known on this continent. The
following dispatches, published in the
Davenport Gazette Of Tuesday and
Wednesday, tell the sad story as well
as it is known now. No regular press
dispatches were sent after 2 A. NJ. on
Monday, the wires having been sever.
cd by the FIRE. All later than that are
railroad and private messages sent from
outside stations. The most intense in
terest is manifested everywhere in the
developments of this national calamity,
and movements in aid of its thousands
Of suffering victims have been set on
foot in all the cities. The actual ter
rors of the scene itself cannot be de-
scribed or imagined. People were
terror stiken, and ran hither and thith-
err in aimless agony Of fear. A hum
dred dollars an hour was offered for We
hicles of any kind. Hearses hurried
through the streets loaded with goods.
Goods were moved and removed, and
then burned up. Many lives were lost,
including number of 6remen who
would get helplessly environed before
they thought Of danger. Cases of sui
eide occurred, where ruined men put
an end to their lives. Hundreds of lost
and homeless children were running
frantically about crying for their pa
rents.
1t is hardly time to look further than
at the human suffering involved, but
the financial aud commercial disaster
and interruption claim thought. The
ruin of business men, the sacrifice OF
property, the loss of producing capital
and the consequent idleness of produc-
ing labor, the inability to fill contracts,
the interruption of all kinds of business
all these things will make themselves
felt throughout the West, and we may
say throughout the United States. In
surance Companies all over this coun-
try will be drawn into the vortex of
ruin. No one knows what companies.
if any of the prominent ones, may be
solvent, or how much, if anything, his
own policy may be worth.
As we said above, the following dis
patches will give as good an idea Of
the rise and progress Of the fire as can
now be obtained:
CHICAGO. Oct. s, 1880 A. N.-The
most terrible conflagration that ever
visited this city broke out an hour and y
half ago, and having already swept over
six entire blocks, Is still raging with
almost undated fury. When the last
dispatch In regard to the great fife was
sent, at two O'Clock this morning, 1t was
stated that its progress appeared to b.
stayed. This proved to be true. The
firemen, by most extraordinary aud dar-
ing exertions, have succeeded in keeping
it within the bounds it then occupied.
Within this area, however, which
covered not less than twenty acres OF
ground, the flames still ragged upon the
piles Of lumber aud coal which filled y
considerable portion of the space, and al
four O'Clock this morning their glare war
visible all over the city.
CHICAGO, Oct. Q, l2:45.-To-night II
the most awful IN the annals Of the city.
The fire which commenced at ten P. NJ.
has already swept over space at least
three times a. large ~ that Of last night
and 10 still rushing on it, path Of des
truction with greater fury than has
marked any stage Of its progress, the
engines appearing to be almost power.
less. Fire Marshal Williams has just
telegraphed to Milwaukee for all the
steamers they can spare.
LIS A. M.-Ths fire 10 still raging and
with increased fury. 1t has spread
almost with the velocity Of the wind
and has now reached West Monros
street, a distance Of moro than mile
from where it started, with . breadth Of
nearly half q mile, reaching from the
river to Jefferson street.
eP. M.-From Halsted street on the
west to the Lake, and. from Harrison
strest on tho south to Lincoln Park
north, 10 one complete ruin-nothing
standing.
3P. M.-Ths elevators on the North
Side and 1T the Illinois freight depot
have all been destroyed.
The streets are Allied with men, wo
men and children, frantic and In Graz
ed condition.
The people have about given up IN
despair. One hundred and seventy
three lives are said to have been lost In
q single building. This will undoubted-
" prove IN exaggsration, but thai