The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-10-12

Chicago this morning via st. Louis: The
! following buildings are burnt, Sherman
House, Chamber of Commerce, Court
House, Western Union Telegraph build
ings and al that part of the city, cover
ing thirty blocks. The Mayor of Chicago
telegraphs to the Mayor st. Louis this
morning to send food for the suffering.
Our city is in ashes. Our water works
are burnt.
CHICAGO, 1920 A. M.-The magnificent
depot of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad has just burned, and
the fire is still raging. But two baggage
cars and three coaches were saved from It.
CHICAGO, October 9.-Hon. William
Orton, New York: We are trying to get
established a supply department., but as
the fire is now coming up this way. on
Wabash avenue, We will probably be
driven out of here before night. The wa
ter works are burned and every banking
house and railroad depot IN the city is
burned.
[Signedl J. J. WILSON, Supt
This dispatch was dated from the south
ern portion of the city.
ENGLEWooD SIX MILES FROM
CHICAGO, II A NJ October
More than one-half of the city is al
ready destroyed and the flames are still
raging almost unopposed. One o'clock
this morning the fire crossed the river at
| Adams street bridge, soon destroyed the
gas works then spread in every direction.
At this hour almost every building from
Harrison street north to Chicago river is
destroyed, including all insurance Offices,
| banks, hotels, telegraph offices and news
paper offices, except the Tribune. The
! Court House, the Sherman House, the
fremont House, the new Pacific Hotel,
the new Bigelow House. in fact every
thing else IS swept clean. This district
embraces all the heavy business houses in
the city.
CNCINNATI, October S-12 MA dis
patch from Superintendent Wilson, Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company, says:
Not less than ten thousand buildings
are already burned. The gale is still ra-
ging.
LATER.
CHICAGO, October 9, 10 A. N. drought
/ to Calumet Station by a horseman from
the city).-The fire is raging with tenfold
| fuay. A great number of houses have
been blown up, but this has no apparent
| effect IN staying the flames. All the
banks, the Grand Central and Lake Shore
Railroad depots, the city water works,
the fremont House, Opera House, all the
elevators on Main street, the Postsfice
and Custom House are destroyed, and in
ashes. The fire is now spreading down
| Wabash avenue, and the fremen are pew
erless to check it.
CHICAGO, October 8, LAS a. M.-There
is no water. The fire has gained headway
on Wabash avenue and is sweeping down
the avenue. 1t will destroy the tempo
rary telegraph Office situated here before
noon.
Among the buildings burned was the
| Merchant Insurance Company's block,
situated on Washington street. The losses
up to this hour exceed one hundred mil
lion dollars.
CHICAGO, October 0, 7 P, M.-Evening
reports to the press say the fire is still ra-
ging with unabated fury and very heavy
loss. The water works proved to be un-
injured and have got them started again.
The fire IS nearly stopped IN Southern Di-
vision but gaining rapidly IN the Northern
Division and fears are entertained that the
whole division will go. The Western
Union Telegraph Company have an Office
of SIX wires In operation on Sixteenth
street.
CHICAGO, October 10, I:3O A. M.-The
fire is still raging fearfully, but we are
now having heavy rain storm and the
fire is now abating.
SPREAD OF THE FIRE SOUTHWARK CHECKED
LATER-It is now believed the spread
of the fire southwark has been stayed al
Aarrison street, but on the north side
there Is no diminution Off fury and that
entire division of the city is eminently
doomed to utter destruction, and there
are grave fears that the flames mey spread
. to the west side of the north branch of the
north branch of the river, and the inhab-
ltants on the s3reets nearest the river are
already moving to places OF supposed
greater safety.
The Western Union Telegraph have
now SIX wires working east and south
and running into the temporary Office al
the corner of State and Sixteenth streets
PEOPLE FLEEING.
The Northwestern Railroad is running
trains on both its branches, which are
, crowded with fleeing citizens.
THE WATER WORKS SAVED.
1t is now positively asserted by some
that the water works are still intact, but
that the water has been shut off from the
south and west divisions on account o.
| the quantity being used on the north side
Reliable gentlemen Just arrived from the
north division bring the joyful intelli.
gence that the water works are uninjured
God grant 1t may prove true.
1t is impossible now to give even an
approximately correct
STATEMENT OF THE LOSSES,
but faint idea may be formed when, il
stated, that every bank in the city, ex-
cept two small savings institutions, one
on Twenty-second street, in the South Di-
vision, and one on Randolph street, in the
west, are destroyed.
EVERY HOTEL
on tho South Division, except the Michi-
gan Avenue hotel, which stands on the
extreme southern limit of the fire, escaped
though badly .scorched.
, EVERY NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
the Tribune building, supposed to be fire
proof, having finally succumbed; every
theatre, SIX of the largest elevators,
THE IMMENSE DEPoTs
of the Michigan Southern and Illinois Gen.
tral Railroads. both passenger and freight
depots of the latter, more than a score oil
churches, and much of the shipping on the
river.
NILLIoNAIREs OF YESTERDAY PENNILEss
TO-DAY.
Men who were millionaires Yesterday
morning are penniless to-day.
SCORES MEET FIERY DEATH.
But more terrible than all is the awful
certainty that many human beings have
found fiery graves; how many no one can
tell, perhaps no one can ever tell but
there is a heart sickening fear that the
victims ofthe fiery monster may be count
ed by scores.
HUNDREDS OF HORSES AND COWS
have been burned in stables, and on the
north side a number, though released
from confinement, bewildered and con-
fused by the sea of fire that surrounded
them, they rushed TO and fro, uttering
cries of fright and pain, until scorched
and killed.
ATTEMPTS AT DESCRIPTION USELESS.