Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-11
VERY LATEST
BY TELEGRAPH.
n O'Clock H. Nj.
THR CHICAGO DISASTER
England Sympathises and
Assists!
UNExAMPLED DONATIONS EVERY
WHERE
st. Louis will give Half
a Million!
PROCllMLTIOhs Of THE
| GOVERNORS |
The Insurance Companies oil
Right!
CHEERiEG MANIFESTATIaNs!
| EXTRAORDINARY lib.
| ERALITY !
NARROWING DETAILS!
Five Hundred Soldiers Oh
| Duty!
LOSS $3OO.OO0,O 900
LOSS OF LIFE
Five Hundred Soldiers on
Duty!
LOSS 100000, 900
LOSS OF LIFE


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LEAvESvoRTH, Oct. l0.-The printers
give Si00 for Chicago. A train load OF
provisions on the way.
KAxsAs CRY, Oct IO.-LibsrAl subscrip-
.Ions for Chicago.
New YoRK Oct 10 The Governor has
Issued proclamation urging instant
elisf for Chicago. All the cities are rsPid-
" acting. Bronklyn has sent 100000.
buffalo gives $lO7, 900.
BosToS Oov lO.-Boston gives 800, goo
% Chicago.
LONDON, ENGLAND, Oct. l0.-Iutense
xciIe meni about Chicago. Large snbsenp-
lous being raised Morgan d Co, bankers,
i've $4,000.
NEw YosK, Oct. l0.-At . meeting OF
ne GermAnIs, Hanover, Niagara and Re
5uoIic insurance companies, composing the
Uuderwrilers' agency Of New York, to-
lay, preparations we're made to pay lmme
II4Iely upon adjustment, eli losses III CURED
a Chicago, after doing which the capital oi
Ill the companies will remain uni,I paired.
special meeting of the Chamber of Com
osrce, called 10 act in rsference TO the Gu
ago sufferers, was largely attended. I'M
nedIatsly upon calling the meeting to ord,l
,y Mr.. Cpd Ke, Fax l. Hatch handed the
;hAirman q check for $4,000. The follow
az firms gave $40 900 each: Henry
Jlsms d Co., Jay Cooke 4 Co., ILLINOIS
Iailroad Company. One hundred persoBl
.ere appointed TO collect subscriptions
The gold room gives $4,000. Certain
merchants give $4,000. Everybody II
living freely,-MAsJnic lodges, mechanic
,ssooiAtions-every body.
ST. LOWS, Oct lO.-St. Louis has givsl
20 900, and inteods 10 give half . million
'Ns to Chicago.
nv. NoiSES, Ocs, lO.-The governor o
low. app, els :" all the P cs;.S.o o. the ''''
CHICAGO, Oct. IO-A.l' sigh'.- un .IrIs =.
Jf hremen and engines IA A
81. Louis and o,ner cities has ~SVss
sstOred confidence. The Ciucinna.. va.
.rrlvsd this morning with four engines, tn.
rom that city and one from Dayton There
s.s indispensable pleasure lr seeing thss.
sxperisneed men 60 right to work in bust
uess way, where work was most needed
they are playing on coal piles 80 save what
yer of fuel 10 possible and prevent fur
her spread of the flames. The vast plan
/. covered with people wandering about ant
,eeinR the evidences Of wealth that hr
.omplsiely vanished in flames and smoke
Few business men with some nerve ar
,tarlnp houses for business on the Wes
Tide. Rooms thss rented last week for 6et
iollars now readily command Eve thousand
There are no, many of these but enough {
'ford nucleus for business. The news
1Apers will be started again in o esw day
TA week. hon. Joseph Medll, of tn
irioune, Who 10 one Of the heaviest sufferer,
uceseded Yesterday in leasing . bnildin
IN washington street, q, the tunnel. 81,
also purchased two tiugle cylinder presse
Ised IN job Office on the West aid
and has teiegraphed cas-, for paper and typ,
here being nothing left here. Mr. Store,
IT the Times, will erect a rough one stor
building and begin to issue his paper Z
,oon AZ material can be procured The Jou
uAl is provided for the west aide The Pos
Republican and Stats Zeituue will al,
arrange for business as soon PRACTICABLE
hut everything must come from else whe,
az there is nothing left from the bushes
Throughout the day yesterday = renew
of the ires on the West Side was looked &
a-d . chenge Of Eve degrees in the dire
ton Of the wind at any time would hs
told that the result there would literal
have been no refuge for any one. Eve
one had their .clothing packed ready
start Tor the prairies st any moment. 4
shutdown the wind lu'lled and at thr
O'Clock this morning the rain so ferven'
osayed for came. Il did not fall long. b
the roofs Of the houses sad the ground ha
been vet 80 that now il is possible 20 he
ere to cook food for the masses.