Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
THR CHICAGO DISASTER
SONB FURTHER DR.
TAILS +!
LOSS OF LIFE
GENERAL SUMMARY !
lRsportsd Expressly for the Ansus. ]

kSoPoEheo IoI the AhoUs.
CHICAGO, Oct. lI.-All the towns along
he illrpois CsnsFsl contribute. The towas
of L,tchheld, Bunker Hill, Shelbyville, Met
ton, spd Charleston this stste) have been
hoerally heard from. Received, $424 from
santa Fs, New Mexico. Denver City,
Golden City, Central City, and Georgetown,
10 Colorado, are moving. Mr.. Stone, of the
New York Journal of Commerce, sends
$500. Washington, d. c giyes $4,000
Memphis, $4,000. Hamilton, Canada,
$1,000. London, Canada, So 600. The
OonIniOn Government sends guhbost to
larry proyIoions. MonUeAl gives $50 900:
PitssbuTg, 100000; Springfield. Mass
$500; PitIsfeid, 1000; Holyoke, 81 900;
Gov. C!abin, Of Massachusetts, sends 200
~sll tents. a. T. Ssewsrt, Of New York,
sent $50 600 by telegraph The employee.
Ji Il. b. Claim subscribe $4,000 Bslu.
more appropriGtes $4,000 Trenton, n
j., gives $40, 600. Eimira, n. Y, $40 600;
syracuse. $3l 900; Niagara Falls, $40, 900,
and ManchAster, N. a., $4,000.
The New York Tribune offers complete
equipment of type and presses to any Chi
cAgo newspaper that wants it. LeAven-
~orth, kAnsRs, seuds 0,000, Q tram Leaf
of provisions, q large quantity of teEts, and
shres companies Of infantry. The Secre
;sry OF War will send $4,000 tents. Tn
N Y. Chamber of Com nerce fund has
aeen increased to $4,000. Subsorip,iops
nave been opened at the city of London,
England, and q large sun will soon be tele-
graphed. The London Times declares its
'aith in the energy OF the Americans, and
he resources Of Chicago. A relief com.
nittee has been organized st Liverpool.
English journals call Chicago . monument
II American enterprise. ST. Louis has
'ent 20 car loads OF provisions. Cincip.
nsii has sent 20 car losds of provisions
and 10000 blankets. Milwaukee was the
irst city to SEND relief. Provisions have
also been received from Rock Island.
AlleRAn, Springfield, Lafayette, BurliuR-
ton, Racine, Madison. Kenowhs, Ripou,
Urbaua, Sycamour, Allegany City, Jack
.ouvills, Davenport and Plymouth sen. in
| me car of provisions each. Elkhart and
| Fort Wayne seUt shrre cars each Cleve
| aud sent six cara. Oshkosh and LoRAus
port two cars The Chicago, Burlington
Y Quincy railroad brought eight cars from
Seponset' The various cities throughout
ne country have almost all teleRrsped offers
# money aud supplies of every kind New
York has made tendsrS Of large sums O
money, and many Of her citizens gave s ! 0,
900 each. All railroads leading out o.
Chicago are Bringing free of charge oVel
their roads such Of the homeless as have
friends in other places.
Gov. Palmer has sent $4,000. A speeiA
meeting Of the legislature is called for tn,
l3.h, Alta meeting of the citizens in St
Louis 1890 900 was subscribed. Cincinnati
pledges $780, New York will probabl,
assist us with half million.
The Catholic Bishop will collect 10 ell hi,
New York churches next Sunday. Masonit
organisations are everywhere responding
the Common Council yssssrdAy passed Ar
Jrdin ance fxiJg the pIice of bread at eigh
cents for losf.of twelve ounces, and IN tn
same proportion for loaves Of less or create
~eighI, Afi1ing . penalty for violation.
All ineendiaries or thieves are hung o
.bos. Que thousand regular troops in III
city. Sixty dead bodies are nov at sh
Morgue. The body Of DIR. Max Never wa
.ound burned to death near his Office o
Clay street; also the remains Of J. UllmAf
the banker
The Board of Public Works have save
sheir oooks, papers ana plans.
1t is reported that /. N. Arnold, Mem be
of Congress from this District, is burpeC
Hundreds perlshed in the North aide pani'
A careful estimate of the mum ber of pet
Ole rendered homeless puts the total OF nC
, ess than 10000. distrbuted As follows
, In the North Division, st, 1000, or all bu,
900 Of the entire population of the division
in the 0uth DivIsiop, 90 900; and in n
Vest Division 5000.
, All fears of suf, ring from starvation hi
: disappeared. ClothiUg and blankets a
. ueedsd
! The financial prosperity is brightenin
/, The Republic Insurance Company of tb
; city expects to pay every dollar of the
u risk Good authority foots up the entl
oss Of the Liverpool and London insursn
!. CON panies at 81 500, 900.
i, The Hartford companies have eightee
70 millions in all, every cent of which will
g paid The Phen;x, OF Hartford, 1000
a All The Cleveland companies are broke
~ !; The President Of the international selegrap
Of that he will be here in thiriy-six hours, q
v I" prepared to pay ell their losses, smou
ns 'ng TO eight hundred thousand. The Trhd
Or. mens OF New York, loses only $500
ia which u already paid.
20 Field Letter & Co.'S, store owned
" Scott 4 Palmer, insured in an English CO
", psny for two-thirds Of its value. Field l.
70 81, 100, 900; insurance on the stock, $5(
is 900.
'od All the banks will, with scarcely 9
doubt, be able to resume business, as
ro' number Of bank vaults have been open
=. and without exception everything 10 70,
M in state of preservation.
ish A report is Gorrent that Potter Pail
ous committed suicide to-day by cutting
throat, while laboriug under severe mel
Ito, excitement. Also. that s. c. Griggs,
s' st. Wholesale bookseller, is insane, and clio
~. guarded BY friends.
A.. With the burning of the Court Hc
Chicago and Cook county lost every YES
Of their official records and 6les.
'a'- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct, l2-W. &.
glish. the weAlthiest man OF lnd'snsp
worth st least 81, ,OO0, 900, has opened
II .,k.n~:had aha ANN of DO