Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-16
an found in there captured. It is stated that

man also residing on Fourth avenue caught a
man IN the basement of his house, number un-
known, armed with hay and matches. He gave
the alarm and the incendiary was caught and
stoned and battered to death.
A one o'clock yesterday afternoon a colored
man, name unknown, observed a white
sneaking round house Fourth avenue. He
fred the barn in the rear Of he house and was
instantly shot dead.
Another man was shot last evening by po-
lice officer who detected him in the act Of at
tempting e. fire the Jesuit church on Twelfth
street.
An excited crowd gathered around the West
Division police station, about o'clock yester-
day afternoon, intent upon making an applica-
ton of lynch law TO a man who was alleged to
have tried to set fire to a house on Milwaukee
avenue. Three or four ropes were houriShed
vigorously in the crowd, and several speeches
we're made by parties, urging them to rescue
the ncendiary from the hands Of the police but
the latter were firm, and at last accounts the
man was still prisoner in the cell.
Mr.. Whitcomb, of this city, states that he saw
the body OF an incendiary suspended from n
lamp-post in the vicinity OF State street, on the
south side, this morning. The man was hung
by nfunated citizens yesterday afternoon.
A negro special policeman, named Dick Cos
telo, Drained booker. on Hubbard Court
yesterday afternoon, and narrowly escaped be-
ing lynched. He is in prison.
These are probably bat few OF the cases where
these wretches received their deserts
Saving the Books.
David Forbes, young Scotchman, at the risk
Of his life, entered the store OF j. Mcintyre
corner of State and Jackson streets at five
O'Clock Monday morning, AMI saved the books
and considerable of the stock. The latter were
eventually burned, but the books we're saved
Death of "a Young Thief.
In the forenoon of the same day one of the
clerks Of J. v. Farwel 4 Co.. while guarding
the goods Of the firm At Peck Court and Mich
igan avenue, discovered young thief making
eff with lot of fancy goods and as the latter
ran, shot him, 1t is supposed fatally.
Murders.
A Mr.. OGrady, a saloon keeper on Canal
street. while walking past nm Italian saloon on
the same street with friend, who slightly
the worse for liquor thrown against tie
window and broke it. He paid the damages
but, his comrade demonstrating rather noisily,
the bar tender seized knife aud plunged it in
to the heart Of 0Grady, killing him instantly;
and then commenced slashing at his companion.
The murderer escaped during the excitement,
but O'Gradys relatives are on the lookout for
him.
A letter to Hon. T. D. lIoton says seven
policemen were murdered during Tuesday night,
Closing the saloons.
On Tuesday, the special police, acting under
instructions, issued an order for the closing of
all saloons, aud the order was pretty generally
obeyed.
David A. Gage.
The report that this gentleman, proprietor Of
the Sherman House, burned to death, Is
incorrect So we are Informed by gentleman
who arrived here from Chicago yesterday.
Marine losses.
Fox u Howard lost one dredge 1.-The largest
in the river) eight scows, two pile-drivar
office, etc. Their three tugs, however, were
saved.
Goodrich's propeller Navarino, barks Glen
beulah, Fontanes, A. p. Nichols, ard Valetta,
schooners Stampede and Alnwick, and two
barges belonging to the Peshtigo Company,
were also burned.
III. ID. ChiIds, Jr., a 90,
steel engravers at III 10 Randolph street, lost
their stock of tools TO the value Of $50 600
They expect to resume business within a week.
Dead Bodies.
A telegram from our special correspondent at
Chicago, dated at u quarter past four o'clock
yesterday, states that the ruins were being over
hauled, and that ninety dead bodies were found
The Tribune contains the following in relation
to the loss of life
Six men were working on the corner of Clark
and Madison streets top of j. b. Chambers
, store, and when the fire caught the lower mart
! of the building were unable to get down and
equally unable to escape to adjoining buildings.
They tell through the roof and were totally COZ
, sumed.
{ After the flames had consumed the store of J.
Ii. Ross, State, near the corner of Washington
the walls were left partially standing. An ex.
press wagon was passing short time after the
conhagration, and reached the front of the build.
ing just in time to receive the falling wall
Five men were in the wagon at the time and
! all were crushed and killed.
An unknown woman caught in a build
ing on State street, near Taylor, and was un-
able to get out in time She had chance of
escape, and fell back into the building whero
she was, of course, consumed.
Chef Morehead was last seen struggling man
fully with a large box containing the books of
Reyburn, Hunter & Co. The flames and
smoke oyerpowered him, and he is certainly
lost
A drunken man tried to run south from the
base ball grounds on Michigan avenue and was
caught and killed by the flames.
Jacob Wolf was roasted to death in his
house No. IS West Harrison street.
A Tribune reporter, wandering among tho
ruins on Ontario street, discovered, III the rear
cellar of the dwelling next east OF lie Iistor.
ical Society building, the charred trunk of
human body, lying amid the ruins of many
wine bottles and the apparatus of a water
| closet.
man jumped from fourth-story window
of Speeds block, during the progress Of the
fire, and was instantly killed
ii. 4. Whitcomb, of this city, informs US
that he counted twenty three bodies in one
street on the North Side, this morning, which
had been recovered from the ruins.
So little idea had the people living near the His.
torica Society building on Ontario street, between
Dearborn and Clark, OF the terrible and utter ruin
which the fire would work, that snatching up
what vauables they could they sought shelter in
its cellar, which unfortunately filled 10 a great
extent with inhammable material. According 10
the statement Of the librarian of the Historical So
ciety, william Corkran, who there at the time,
the following persons certainly sought refuge
there: Old Col. Stone and his wife, Mr. aud Mrs
Able and their daughters, Mrs De pelgrom
teacher of French, Mr.. and Mrs. Carpenter, inusl.
cal people, DR.. Freer and family, the former hav-
ing with him s., 900 worth of persona properly be-
longing to Rush Medical College, two patients from
the hospital In Mr.. cbardss place, aud John Is
Girard and family. MIR. Corkran had hold OF
one end of a trunk and Mrs. Geber of the other
Her dress took fire, aud he left her and for the
stairs leading from the cellar up stairs. lie is
tain that old Col. Stone suhocated, and, from the
sudden thrush Of dense smoke, there is cause to
fear that nearly all the others who were In there
shared the same fate bewildered by the fumes
and unable to find their way out of building with
which they were unacquainted.
As early as three O'Clock in the morning Of Mon
day the people on the North Side, or many of them
began to get a little Still they DID not al
that carly hour, entertain any serious apprehen-
sion, feeling confident that the river would be an
impossible barrier, amply sufficient to prevent any
spreading Of the confagration. By daylight, how
ever, things were IN q somewhat lfferent position
The fire, moving northeastward, had gotten 10
Rush street bridge, which crowded vita peO
pie. La order 10 prevent this aiding the fire in
crossing, it was turned hut the only result was the
destruction Of the people who were upon it.
Encouraged by the absence OF policemen, the
roughs along on ktize street broke into the sa-
| looms there, and began selling and drinking the
! liquor. Many others, at the very moment they
most needed all me self-possesson they had
fuddlet Themselves, ard In many cases were sur
rounded by the flames and stiled by the smoke
| some found lying the sidewalk, and, since