Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-16

dealers, for the winter, are burning, defying all
efforts TO eXtngush, and all through the ruins
of the south side little blue and red flames are
seen Mt night, indicating the piles of coal laid in
for the winters use.
A greater degree of feyerishness prevails now
than at any previous time owing to the fact that
most everybody has taken yaluaDleS from
vaults or safes in the ruins and have them in
their immediate possession and are liable 10
destruction at any time. They are now much
more than ever, but owing TO the large number
of police and private patrolmen constantly on
the lookout as well as the vigilance of the mill
tary fire is sure to be discovered before it can
make any Roadway.
Burned bodies are seen, and at the coroners
offices are roasted bodies of the men, women aud
children unrecognized and unknown, piled one
upon the other and awaiting recognition. There
is not the iantest clue to any of the bodies that
will lead their friends to positively know who
they are, and so they must be buried. The city
papers that have been resuScit0tcd from the
ashes report aS many as two hundred bodies re-
co 5ercd from the fire. Unless it is known posi-
lively who persisted in the fire, it will he impoS-
sible TO determine from rec ignition. There are
seventy bodies reported in the barn Of the city
undertaken ON Hubbard street.
The people who fed 10 Lincoln park are sut-
iering terribly, From 10000 the number has
sWellcd to y 900, Those who were in the va
cant lot near Division street have gone up to
the park, and the scene now presented is beyond
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demoralizcd. Hundreds are lying on pallets OF
straw, having been rudely aroused from sick
beds to save their lives. How many pHiShSd In
the vain attempt to save themselves will proha-
bly, never be known. There have been five
deaths and eight births in Lincoln park in
twenty-tour hours, Families who were formerly
in comfortable circumstances are absolutely
without cent or a home. The whole CITY is
absolutely wild with grief and despair.
During the night shots were frequently heard,
and incendiaries. Roughs will find it to their
personal safety if they viii give Chicago wide
berth at present The citizens are bitter against
these harpies, and Il suspicion is equal to
death warrant. lncendiarcS particularly meet
with swift rctrbution. This afternoon some
women detected young man about twenty-five
years old in the act of firing house on the west
side and party of men took him to the near
est telegraph pole, and hung him with a tele
graph wire, On State street, this evening, when
an alarm of fire was given, two policemen |
rushed to the house No. 26S and emerged with !
a woman, whom they caught setting fire to a
straw bed tick. 1t was just as much as they |
could do to save her from the vengence of the |
Infatuated crowd.
Gen. Sheridan states that there has been and
still is a great deal of robbery, stealing and
general lawlesSueSS, butnOuhiug like as much as
might be expected. He has investigated every
case of alleged mcendariSm and i'll every in |
stance discovered natural causes for fire. He |
has not been able TO find that Il single individual
has been ynched at any time during the excite
ment of the fire or since, and does notbelieye that
any such cases occurred. The mayor confirms |
his opinion in this regard. Fires are constantly |
occurring, though, owing to the great watchful- |
ness of the people they are promptly eXtinguish-
ed; but every alarm creates intense excitement, |
owing to the scarcity Of water and the crippled |
condition of the fire department. Every fire is |
at once attributed to incendiaries, and before the
report has travelled half a dozen squares it is |
supplemented by another that the ncendiary |
has been summarily disposed.
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