The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-20

| pdllluS CdlaullJJ WHICH neSo ONCA 9SsEAS
our city, has no parallel in the his
tory of the world since Christ die
fol- sins. We can not return ou
thanks for their loving kindness
Words falter on our lips; only ou
streaming eyes can tell how deepl.
we feel their goodness.
The eighty dead bodies alread,
lying in ghastly rows in the Morgue
the two long columns of the missing
in this mornin's paper, the churches
and school houses crowded still will
half clothed, weeping women anG
children, are terrible reminders o.
the calamity whose whole horrors
no words will ever be found to de-
scribe. The bodies at the Morgue
were mostly found on theNorth Side
and, it is but too certain, are only 8
small number of those who were
caught in the raging flames and ut
terly consumed. The Coroner on
yesterday held inquests on the bod
lies of sixty-four men. one of whom
was Ullman, the banker, found yes
terday. The body of the man who
had crawled into large water main
was recognized as Aleckson, living
at No. 81 Milwaukee avenue. About
twenty bodies of those recovered
were taken from the easements of
two buildings on the North Side near
Chicago avenue bridge.
Yesterdaymorning theRelief Com
mittee was thoroughly organized,
Orrin E. Moore being elected Presi-
dent; c. L. Hotchkiss, Secretary, and
David A. Gage, Treasurer. The
Committee met in conjunction with
City Council and ordered that all
moneys should be received by the
single hand of David A. Gage, the
Treasurer, and be distributed on the
signature of the President and Sec
retary, endorsed by the auditing
committee. subcommittee were
appointed in every department, and
it is believe that very thorough work
is being accomplished in receiving
and disbursing supplies. Probably
forty thousand people were fed yes
terday by the Committee, and pro
visions are coming in from all direc-
tions. ]. W. Preston has general
charge ofreceiving supplies, and A.
G. Gibbs of their distribution. G..
W. Pullman & N. K. Fairbanks have
charge of the distributing supply de-
dartment on the South Side. Rev.
Robert Collyer and John Herting on
the North Side, and Messrs. Moore
and Markham on the West Side.
An adjourned meeting ofthe bank
ers of Chicago was held this morn
ing at 543 Wabash avenue. The meet
ing was called to order by Mr.. Cool
baugh, President of the Union Ma
tional Bank, as Chairman. The
Committee on Resolutions reported
the following, which were unani-
mously adopted;
WHEREAS, Our city has been visit
ed by confagration in the extent
and destruction of property scarcely
equalled in the history of the world
and,
Whereas, The banks have suffered
quite as severely as the business com
munity generally, we feel that if left
to a peaceable adjustment of our af-
fairs, they can pay all their liabilities
in full,whlle any attempt on the part
of the banks to force immediate pay
ment from the debtors, or any effort
tby the depositors to compel forci-
ble settlement from thebanks, would
augment and intensity the wide
spread ruin and desolation which is
upon US,
ResolUed, That the banks of this
city will open for business as soor
as possible, giving due notice Of time
and place; that they will pay an i'm
mediate instalment of not more than
Is per cent. in the case Of individual
banks, and will continue to pay ad-
ditional instalments as fast as their
assets can judiciously be made avail
able, until their entire liabilities are
liquidated, it being in their opinion
an advantage to the entire eommuni-
ty to reserve a portion Of their casf
assets to furnish reasonable accom-
modations to surviving commercial
interests, which must inevitably per
ish without such aid.
A number of the telegraph opera
tors in this city were burned out o
house and home. The operators O
St. Louis, feeling for their brother;
in Chicago, have forwarded car load
of clothing and provisions. Gen
Stager, of the W. Q. Telegraph Com
pany, in order to prevent extortior
being practized upon his employees
by grocers, ETC., ordered a car load
of provision from Cleveland, which Is
now here for their use.
In the private Office of Mr.. Cowles
business manager Of the Tribune
which was directly adjoining the
counting room, was q relic OF the
seige of Paris, in the shape Of a KrupE
shell, which was exploded by the
heat. and tore breach in the walls
fifteen feet wide, from the foundation
to the roof.
A private dispatch from st. Louis
to Gen. Stager, says that dispatch
was sent from this city yesterday, to
the effect that St. Louis rebels were
here and setting fire to the city. Nc
such dispatch was sent from Chlca,
go through the Associated Press,ano
| the whole statement is a pure inYen'
ton. The city was never more or
derly, and there is now no evidence
of unusual incendiaries.
At a full meeting of wholesale
groeers held this afternoon, it was
unanimously resolved that we ask
no compromise with our creditors
we only want time, and are deter
mined to pay one hundred cents OF
the dollar.
It has been ascertained from Of
fetal reports that 50,000,0O0 feet O.
lumber were destroyed, and that "a,
100000 feet are still on hand.
To-day 100000 was subscribed
towards rebuilding the Chamber o
l Commerce on the site Of its ruins
and work will be commenced at once
The wholesale provision dealers
! wholesale -four dealers and wholesale
i lumber dealers refuse to take ad
vantage of the situation, but contin
4 M tO coll their orOOda Of old ,,1ices