Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-18
RISING FROM HER ASHES.
The Scenes Of DcsOlatiOn and DeStitution
described.


Described.
Latest advices from Chicago give us the |
following items concerning the great fire
and its results:
SUGGESTIONS FROM GOV. HAYES.
Gov. Hayes, who has been here for three |
days assisting in work with that energy |
and practical good sense for which he is !
noted. issues the following suggestions:
"TO the People Of Ohio:
1t is believed by the best informed citi-
Zens here, that many thousands of the
sufferers must be provided with the neces-
saries of life during the whole winter.
Let the efforts to raise contributions be en-
ergetcally pushed. Money, fuel, flour,
pork, clothing, and other articles not per-
ishable, should be collected as rapidly as
possible, especially money, fuel, and flour.
Mr.. Medill of the Tribune, estimates the
number of those who will need assistance
at about seventy thousand.
TSigned1 II. B. HAYES"
The Tribune thus expresses the gratitude
of the city for the great aid so literally be-
slowed
The response of the people of the United
States to the appalling calamity which has
overtalken our city, has no parallel in the
history of the world since Christ died for
our sins. We cannot return our thanks
for their loving kindness. Words falter
on our lips. Only our streaming eyes can
tell how deeply we feel their goodness;
while, however, the stricken people have
already reused themselves from the first
stunning, bewildering effects of the terri
BILE blow to their business, and are man
fully girding themselves to rebuild their
ruined fortunes.
| 1t has been ascertained from official re-
| port that fifty millions of feet of lumber
were destroyed and that twenty-four mil
lions are still on hand.
One hundred thousand dollars were sub
| scribed to-day towards rebuilding the
Chamber of Commerce on the site of its
ruins, and work will be commenced at
| once.
The wholesale provision dealers whole
sale -four dealers and wholesale lumber
dealers refuse to take advantage of the sit
uation, but continue to sell their goods at
4 oil, nrices. The same is true of those coal
and 'rs who have any stock left.
Temporary buildings are being built in
every direction and by Saturday night
there will be hundreds ready for occupa-
ton. s.s......t .,s51
The Secretary of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit Company announces that bus
mess there, including shipments for the
East, will now move along as usual. The
bank there will furnish drafts on New
York for life stock sales tomorrow. The
Live Stock Commissions firms are all do
ing business, and live stock shipments can
be handled and payments for them made
as usual.
4 GHOSTI.IEST PROMENADE IN THE WORLD.
The following is furnished by the cores
pondent of the New York Tribune
have lust returned from the ghostliest
promenade in the world. From Congress
street to Lincoln Park and beyond to
Wright's Grove, four miles of what was
last week the busiest and most vigorous
CITY of the West, there is now one wide
spread desolation, marked by scorched
and calcined chimneys, by mounds OF
glowing brick and stone, all covered like
a wintery plain with the fall OF whitening
ashes The vastness and monotony of the
view is as wearisOme and depressing as
that of the desert.
In the space bounded ON three sides by
the lake and the Chicago river, and on the
south by Van Buren, street, there We're en-
braced, some Of the finest business houses
on the continent, and a higher average of
beautiful and costly architecture than had
4 EVERGREEN applied i'm theworld TO the pur-
poses of trade. ~ 's4'taaaasftsf
Along the river on either side the tail ,
lungainly forms Of the elevators, those
unconscious growths of the commerce of the
] Northwest, mirrOred their awkward angles
lin the turbid watcl-view by unencumbered
J lleels.
! In the North Division the ground to the
west was occupied by large MANUFACTURING
establishments, and to the east by III mods
est and tasteful houses OF the trading
! classes. - . ~ a
The city of Chicago has a melancholy re
cord on the books of the insurance compa-
mics of New York and Hartford. Since
! 1862 fbarp have baen i'm Chicago g. 10 fires