Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-10
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.
Steamers and Provisions from IndI-
annapolis.

annapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 9.-News of the
calamity at Chicago created most intense
excitement here to-day. Nothing has
equaled it since the firing on Fort Sumter.
Two steam engines and cars loaded with
provisions were sent to Chicago this after
noon, With corps of firemen and police
men. A meeting was held at the Board of
Trade room tonight, at which $4,000 was
subscribed, and $4,000 pledged. More
provisions will be sent Tomorrow, and a
general meeting Of the city called for to-
morrow night. r -s
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Oct. 9.-The
Common Council of this city have just
made shipment of provisions by rail to
Chicago. More will follow. The Wanda
liza line takes all contributions for the suf-
feress free Of charge.
. EVANSVILLE, IND, Oct. "a meeting
for the relief of Chicago was called by
Mayor Baker tonight. The sympathy and
excitement are great,
900 At Memphis. &
MEMPHIS, THE great fire at Chicago is
the all absorbing topic. Further details
are anxiously waited. Mayor Atchison and
Col. Renson, President of the Chamber of
Commerce here, issued joint call for a
meeting of the citizens at half past seven
this evening to take action in regard to the
matter.
Columbus Baking Bread for Chicago.
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 9.-The Chicago fire
produced profound sensation here to-day.
AT meeting of citizens this evening $4,000
was contributed and committee appointed
TO raise money and provisions for sufferers.
The bakeries and penite ntiary are busy to-
night baking bread and cooking meat to be
forwarded to Chicago. The 6:45 express
train tonight took out large quantity of
bread and meats prepared at the peniten-
tiary.
New York Underwriters Anxious.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The great fire at
Chicago has created most profound SEN
sation here, and has had depressing effect
upon all the departments Of business. In
all the insurance offices the utmost anxiety
prevails. 1t is impossible to tell as yet the
number or extent of risks in the New York
offices, and while many companies win
loose heavily, perhaps none of them will be
SO seriously injured as to suspend. The
immediate result here is timidity among
those who have money to lend, based upon
the expectation that the insurance eompa-
nies will be compelled to call in all their
available assets and realize on all securities
that are readily convertible into cash.
The MOney-manfacs of Wall Street.
The scene in the Stock Exchange was
one of the widest ever witnessed there.
Demoniac yells, such as were heard in the
gold room on black Friday, in 1869, an
nounced the struggles of desperate men to
save at least little from their wrecked for
tunes. Gestures of despair, faces pale with
mortal fear and racked by anguish, such as
one well may wish never to see second
time, greeted one on every side. The scene
was fearfully interesting and exciting to a
stranger. 1t would seem tha. that assem-
blage of well-dressed men before him were
insane. Many broker, who saw his for
tune rapidly slipping from his grasp without
having power to stay 1t, was temporarily
mad, and with good reason. Such a scene
has not been witnessed since the famous
break in Rock Island last summer.
A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
has been called for Tuesday at noon, to
afford an opportunity to the merchants of
this city to contribute relief to the sufferers
by the fire. At the Produce Exchange
there has been intense excitement all day
and measures will be taken al once to send
provisions, etc., to the afflicted city. Ar
are making for relief meeting
of citizens. The call for the meeting will
be issued tonight.
Among the Masses.
The excitement throughout the city in con-
sequence of the terrible news from Chicago
was intense. Nothing like it has ever been
since the first days of the Franco
Prussian war. Every newspaper Office had
double or treble bulletin boards out with the
freshest items regarding the spread of the
flames and destruction of property. Crowds
of readers, amounting to several hundred,
pressed regularly around these boards and
passed from one office to another reading
the news.
A dense crowd filled the sidewalk, and
overhowed nearly to the middle of Broad
way, opposite the Western Union Telegraph
office, in the windows and glass doors of
which dispatches from the scene of disaster
are posted as soon as received. In short,
nothing but the fire exclusively is talked of
throughout the city, and the people are filed
with the deepest sympathy and sorrow for
the fate of the great Western city. In many
localities of the city the shock has been such
as to partially bring business TO stand
still.
In insurance offices on Broadway little
was done during the day beyond conversing
about the calamity and comparing notes as
to the probable losses of the several compa-
MES insuring in Chicago. Every moment
visitors were arriving to see the President
or Secretaries, and TO question them as to
the losses of themselves or neighboring
but there were none of them
that could even form rough estimate of
the insurance. The people are greatly ex-
ercised over the appalling news. At the
fire Underwriters the greatest appre-
tensions are entertained for the solvency of
some companies who have risked heavily in
Chicago property, ...
At a meeting called at the Chamber of
Commerce tomorrow, to take action in
this emergency, there is no doubt but that
the response will be of the heartiest and
most liberal character. Business men of
every class are not only ready but eager to
do their duty towards the suffering people of
Chicago, and it may be relied upon that
the contribution from the Empire City viii
be prompt and noble one. The meeting
viii be a crowded one, and the utmost inn
patience is manifested for the speedy for1na-
ton OF channels through which to convey
the practical assistance and sympathy of
New York. Zs a-t
The officers Of the Great Western and