Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-14
,.UCHICAGO.
Insurance Companies Paying up
The Banks Save 75 Per Cent.
The Organization OF Relief.
ALI Immediate Wants Supplied
And Social Order Restored.

each succeeding day brings brighter pros
poets for this smitten city, and the feel
ing of hope and faith which springs
up within the breasts of the energetic men
who have made Chicago what it was, is
strengthened and extended every hour.
Twenty-one of the twenty-four columns of
this mornings Tribune are filled with ad-
vertisements of business firms who have
already secured new locations, and are
either now ready, or will be in few days,
to do business. Stocks of new goods are
already on the way here. Contractors are
overwhelmed with applications to put up
new buildings for business purposes. One
contractor had last night sixteen contracts
for substantial structures to be erected at
once.
The Grain Movement.
Some grain is moving out. -Four chat
ers were reported to-day. 1t is expected
that grain viii be moved out much more
rapidly towards Monday, as the banks will
be a Bile to make advances by that time. So
far none of the bank vaults have been
found at all injured.
The Savings Banks.
The saving banks Of the city announce
that they will at once pay in full all deposi-
Oplo hnOoC uCPOollS UO uOb tACttu lhcIllN
dollars, and not less than twenty dollars to
every depositor whose balance is more than
that sum.
Etna Adjusting.
The agents of the Etna Insurance Com
pany are now adjusting and paying their
losses, which they say viii not exceed two
and half TO three millions of dollars.
The wooden Streets Unscorched.
A noticeable fact, and one of immense
importance in the rebuilding of the city, is
the almost perfect condition in which the
fire has left the Nicholson pavement. The
damage is so trifling as not to be worthy of
mention. Miles of pavement on the north
side are almost unscorched and perfectly
free of debris, and even in the south division
where both sides of the Street were lined
with lofty brick and stone buildings, there
is scarcely a point where a carriage may
not be driven through the streets. Indeed,
except where the buildings were blown up,
or partially blown up in the endeavour to
stop the progress of the flames, the ruins
have almost invariably fallen upon their
own sites. At points where the pavements
were burned at ALL the fire only charred on
the outside, and it is a question whether
the process TO which they were subjected
will not add to their durability.
The Countless Hosts of Lost.
Evidence is accumulating hourly that the
loss of life is greater than we have ventured
to estimate in these dispatches, and the
great number of persons still searching for
the missing members of their families con-
firm the statements.
There are many of these missing enes
quartered at the relief headquarters at the
church, on Washington |
street, where
Affecting Incidents
are constantly occurring. ASwedsh moth |
er found there all safe and newly clothed, |
five little children. At first she tainted !
dead away; then recovering she embraced |
her rescued darlings with the fervor such as
only belongs to mother.
Last evening German father who was |
able to speak only few words of broken |
English was conducted to room where he |
found his four children. He danced for ioy |
and lifting up very tenderly the youngest, |
an infant lying asleep on a lounge, he kissed |
it again and again and said, Komt home zu |
mutter." Then seeing it was wrapped in a |
nice blanket, he commencing removing it. |
The superintendentFold him he could keep
it. This generosity was more than he could |
understand and he insisted upon returning
it. Similar scenes are of hourly occurrence,
but alas, many have searched and will |
search in vain for their missing loved ones. |
Companies Reimbursing
Millions.
Day, Allen & Co., wholesale grocers, were
the first recipients of $4,000 from the |
Phoenix of Hartford, whose agents are also |
adjusting and paying their losses as rapidly
as possible.
VIM. Warren, agent of the Liverpool, |
London and Globe companies, this morn
ing received cable dispatch from these |
companies, directing him to proceed at once
with the adjustment and payment of every |
dollar of their losses as quickly as it can be
done. The losses of these companies ag-
gregate about six million dollars.
The losSSsbf the Commercial Insurance
Company of Albany, is about S45O,O00.
This company has been placed in the hands !
of receiver by its officers, but claims that
it will pay every dollar and that new stock
will be at once subscribed to proceed with
their business.
The Grain Elevators
The following is a correct list of eleva-
tors burned. Munger & Armours, Galena,
Illinois Central, A. Hiram Wheeless Ma
tional, Vincent, Nelson & Co. The fol-
lowing are standing and unframed. Il
linois Central, B. Flint, and Thompsons,
and the two belonging to Mum & Scott.
The two owned by Armour, Dale & o.,the
Burlington, the old Iowa and the Illinois
river. The total amount of grain destroy
ed in the fire and elevators burned is over
l 100000 bushels, amount in store in re-
manning elevators is about 100000 bush
els.
The Banks Save so to 20 per cent.
Every dollar of currency and bonds in the
vaults of the banks have been recovered.
This added to the balances in New York
leaves them an amount of cash means
equal to forty or fifty per cent. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY believed that at least fifty per cent of
all the insurance involved in the fire will be
promptly paid; this insures the collection of
at least seventy-fiye to eighty per cent of
their loans by the banks.
Murdered for his Money.
A rumor prevails, and by some believed,
that Henry j. Ullman, the banker, was
murdered instead of having been suff0cated