Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-20
The sad story.

The sad Story.
The sad story OF Chicago wi ] be found
on first page-a continuation from last
week. The incidents OF interest and sad
ness are almost innumerable, and we give
few more below;
VENGEANCE.
Two New York roughs are reported to
have been caught setting fires and were
arrested by Sheridan's soldiers and shot.
Two others of the same gang were hung
to lamp posts. One villain was hung up
by the heels, and then stoned to death.
A young boy who was caught in the act
had his arm torn off by the excited mob,
and was then hung to tree.
THE POLICE.
The police force was handled with
skill and discretion, and rendered eff
cient aid in preserving order and also
property. When, however, they attempt
ed to blow up buildings in order to ar
rest the conhagration their inexperience
told against them, and vascillation and
INDIGESTION were apparent, When, how
ever,
GENERAL SHERIDAN
took command of this part of the force
a different story was told. He knew how
to handle powder, as we'll as men, and no
half way work was permitted. To his
judgement and skill is due the fact that
the destruction in the Western division
was not much greater.
NARROW ESCAPE OF ROBERT 7. LINCOLN.
Robert 7. Lincoln, only surviving son
of the late President Lincoln, entered his
law office about daylight on Monday
morning, after the flames had attacked
the building, opened the vault, and piled
upon table cloth the most valuable pa
per7, then slung the pack over his shout
der and escaped amid shower of falling
fre-brands. He walked up Michigan
avenue, with this load on his back, and
stopped at the mansion of John Young
Scammon, where they breakfasted with
a feeling of perfect security. Lincoln
went home with his papers, and before
noon the house of Scammon was in ruins,
the last which was sacrificed by the lake
side.
A FIRE-TRIED POT OF BUTTER.
MIR. Hay relates the following: saw
on Wabash avenue, which, with its cheer
full houses and autumn leaves, smiles like
an oasis on fiery sea, the burly form
and CHEEKY Western face of Gov. anC
Gen. Richard Oglesby. He hailed me il
his hearty, wholesome way. and took mi
to see something worth seeing. He sale
that loaded furniture van was standing
before a fine residence, into which the,
were moving the Office of the Chicagt
and Calumet Dock Company, and tn
sight which so amused the Governor wa
a pot of butter which had passed through
the greatest heat of the conffagratiol
without loosing its integrity. 1t ha,
been safely slowed in the vaults Of on
vi the deposit companies. This trial
so much more striking than the safet
/ Of important papers, that the pot of fire
tried butter will be a greater card 70
the deposit company than any amount O
rescued diamonds
s DEATH ON CLARK STREET.
!. Some of the more fortunate pedestr
!. ans upon Clark street made their escap
: into alleys and cross streets, some of ther
+ having the clothes burnt off their back
! SO sudden and spontaneously fierce wei
] the flames. 1t is known that some pc,
J, sons in this street were unable to escap
= and, asphyxiated and rendered sensele,
: fell unexpected victims to the flames. /
i the high building on either side man
o clerks had their lodgings. Some of the;
9 made their escape half clad. Other
n who had during the day INDUCED in di
n sipation, and had retired to bed stupefe
o by excess did not awaken in time, an
d persisted before assistance could be rel
d dered. Two young men it is said, al
/ pealed from fourth story window to til
t bystanders for rescue, from the furnac
|. of fierce heat which wrapped the builc
If ing. No relief was possible. In anotf
f. err moment the roof fell upon them, an
n the walls tottered in and they found the
J. death and burial place amid the heaps {
re ashes. Just how many persons met the
re fate in this manner it is impossible to sa,
1 One of the horrors of the Chicago fiji
| was the rushing of twenty five or thirt
il servant girls to the roof of one of tt
" large hotels to leap into the streets belo
70 but the whole roof fell in and they wer
engulfed.
The handsome house of the la
a Benjamin Nathan, in New York. has r
: manned tenantless since his murder. B