New-York tribune., 1871-10-16
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.

CHICAGO, Oct. 14.-The train which leaves
this morning will carry TO EewYork 800 men to renew
their stock of goods credit They 80 generally with
lust enough money to carry them through and bring
them back and few who could not muster enough to
pay for the trip will leave here on passmen who were
worth their tens Of thousands four days ago and had
mansions on the avenuel They will be in your city by
Monday.
Almost the only building that stands intact in square
mile Of ashes embers the south sde Is the huge
mountain Of wood known as Elevator B, and owned by
the Brothers Buckingham. This Is an immense store
house Of grain, hundred and fifty feet high, and as
capacious should think, all the buildings in your City
Hall Park combined 1t stands monument of " the
days that are more;" and, while 1t is somewhat
isolated by its position out the wharves yet 1t ts
marvellous that 1t did not take fire from the storm OF
burning brands borne past the hurricane Similarly
O conservatory opposite Washington Park and Colyers
church. on the north sde still stands in the very heart
Of ashes and deeolation. -.fst
The Nicolson pavement has not stood very heroicay
the trial by fire. The pavement stin remains and
scarcely anywhere is entirely consumed but over the
whole burnt district its thicky gathered scars
The fire swept over the whole pavement, md followed
the between the blocks While the body Of
the pavement s still apparently sold its surface Is so
seriously corrugated and unduatng that viii not be
practicable to again for general travel unless it is
renewed, some vast horsepane Is invented to cut
away its turbulent knobs and excrescences.
THE SCENE IN THE TUNNEL.
One of the most dramatic and impressive Of the
fire. not yet recorded the fight through the La
salles tunnel under the river during Sunday night 1t
was about O'Clock when this strange heRira began,
and in ten minutes it became furious rout The bridges
on both sides were fire. and the flames writhng
over the decks Of the brgs in the river and winding
their Of fame around the masts and through
the rigging like q monstrous luminous devil-hsh. The
awful canopy Of fire drew down and closed over Water
st. as the shrieking multitude rushed for the
tunnel the only avenue Of escape. The gas-works had
already blown up, and there light In any house
save the illumination which lighted up only to destroy
But into the darkened rushed pelme from all d.
rectons the renzied crowd-bankers thieves draymen,
wives, chidrenn stage of undress, as they had
leaped from burning lodgings, howlng, implornR,
cursng, praying waiting mob, making their desperate
dive under the river. 1t was as dark In the tunnel
as 1t is in the center OF the earth'
perhaps darker Hundreds Of the fugtyes were laden
with furniture, household goods, utensils oaves OF
bread and pieces Of meat and their rush through the
almost sufocatng tunnel fearful In the extreme.
They knocked each other down, and the strong rod on
the helpless Nothing heard at the mouth OF the
cavernous prison mued howl Of rage and anguish.
Several came forth with broken limbs and terrible
bruises they scattered and resumed their hight under
the blazing sky to the North Ward.
AN UNsAvORY QUARREL
And yet 1t is unfair call 1t quarrel for It is in fact
an assault by o disreputable Common Council on our
honest and RESPECTABLE Mayer. The old hostility has
sprung up again in this moment Of supreme afc-
tion anthe Council insists controlling the disburse-
ments Of charities It will not be allowed. The Mayor
and committee OF the most faithful citizens have been
placed in charge, and they win remain in charge. 1t 10
not exposing any secret to remark in passing that there
10 Tammany Ring here, which, for the last two years.
has controlled the Council and perpetrated immense
frauds and sought to peEpetrate others still more enor
mmous In spite Of the Mayor and OF the city.
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