Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-13
THE GAZETTE.
CEDAR FALLS, OCTOBER l9 1871.
THE DOOMED CITY |!
Chicago a Masso Of Smolde--
ing Ruins I'll
10000 Buildings Burned !
AN - - -~7-IT ~ ts aa@ #
But One Wholesale House
Left In the cityl ..ta..
Naws-N
-.sa.st @ a0f-"ei q 70 $3.50.
Aid Pouring In From Every Di-
r.. ros rection. 'f' O. 3
4g fa6avJ sDEra|
e. g-1 ri stggEaE
ct. Louis and Cincinnati
Give Over $500 900.
Thousands OF People Dead
and Dying. "a
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The Fire Subdued
10000 People Homeless.
5000 ACRES IN. THE BURNED
DISTRICT. .qa.ad aaa
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Thousands OF People Dead
and Dying. I, t~ ~.
The Fire Subdued !
5000 ACRES IN THE BURNED
DISTRICT. gps4 sar
Charred Remains Of Sixty Persons
Discovered In one Heap.
From our Extra OF Wednesday.

From OH Extra OF Wednesday. ...s. as.
The Metropolis of the West Is lit
orally in ashes. The best portion OF
the city is a heap of ruins, and the
fire IL still raging. 1t is estimated
that five miles square have been
burned over, which constituted the
best portion of the city.
The prominent buildings destroyed
are: Post Office, Custom House,
Cnamber of Commerce and the Court
House. a.sisH# #'..". q
The Post, Times, Tribune, Repub-
Rcdn, Journal, Mail, Stats Zeitung,
aud Uaion offices are all destroyed
Crosby's Opera House, Mcvicker's
Theatre. Hooley's Opera House Dear
born Theatre and Woods MUSEUM ;
the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth. Union, Northwestern, Manu-
f~acturers. Cook County and Illinois
National Banks; the Second Presby-
terrain Church, St. Paul's UNIVERSAL
let church. Trinity Episcopal church
the magnificent depot of the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific, the Lake
Shore d Michigan Southern Rail-
roads on Van Buren, street, at the
head of La Sale street, the Great
Central Union depot, the Wells
street depot and the depot of the
Chicago l. Northwestern railroad |;
the National Elevator, orne OF
Adams and the river; Armour, Dale
Il Co.'S elevator, corner Market and
the river; Hiram Wheeler's elevator
on the same corner as the above /; the
Galena elevator, corner Rush street
bridge and the river; and "An of
the Illinois Central near the Illinois
depot at the basin ; the fremont
House, Sherman House, Briggs
House, Metropolitan, Palmer, Adams
Bigelow, European, Burk's, Garden
City and the new Pacific in process
of erection ON Clark and La Sale
streets, Farwell Hall.
Among the prominent business
houses are j. v. Farwell's, Field,
Letter & Co., Lake Side Publishing
House. The entire street from Har-
rison northward Is i'm hopeless ruins.
The gas and waterworks are burned.
4 large number of lives have been
lost, about thirty firemen among the
number. The last report was that
the whole north side IL on fire and
burning fercely.
Amid'the excitement we can only
get a few of the details. but enough
Is known to stamp Il as one of the
most sweeping calamities that ever
visited this country. 1t. Is q terrible
blow TO business in the Northwest,
and the question on every lip Is:
What of the result OF The esti-
mated loss thus far il $500, DOC, 600
dollars. Mayor Mason te~legraphed
to Milwaukee for bread and cheese
for I0O.O 900 homeless people. -
1t is impossible to form any idea of
the devastation. Never in the histo-
~ of the world has such a,scene Of
extended. terrible aud complete de-
struction by confagration been re-
corded, and never has a more fright
full scene of panic. distress and hor
FOR been witnessed among a helpless
borrowing population, 5Ea7.
The Are broke out ON the corner of
Dekoven and Twelfth ~streets, Mt
about 0 o'clock on Sunday evening".
being caused by a COW kicking over q
lamp in q stable in which o woman
was milking. gt,n .g.
sr CHICAGO, Oct. TO- .
Tn the lake shore people areIiving
on the sand, and dying BY handreds.
the rich included, having to pay SO
cents for q drink of water. A eiti-
zen says IL ID tie most pitiable sight
ever witnessed. In the thiekly set
tied parts of the city mothers took
their ckildren aud threw them In
blankets out of the Windows : the
ground. getting out themselves a.
best they could. to hnd their little
ones dead on the streets, burned and
crushed. SO bgs sgaa3 h8a2o.
CHICAGO, Der. 10th, III a. II.
The horrible fact has just been dis
closed from police authority that l8l
prisoners were burned to death in
che court house jail, there was 30
much exeitemant by the fire that tina
prisoners were not thought of until
the fire reached the Jail, and then II
was to late to do any good.
All Agents In Iowa.-Adrise ala
people not to come TO Chicago. a.i
BY order of the Mayor.
Send vhat provisions the people
San possibly ssnd. .alq1o3
John G. Gault,
General Supt. G. 4 N. w. r.. r..
THE VERY LATEST. alI
The confiagration has been partial-
ly gotten under control, and the Are
companies are working with almost
superhuman efforts, but az the fire is
occasionally breaking out In new
places, 1t cannot be told how much
of this division Q be saved. dftR
CHICAGO, SIP. m, Oct 40.
Two men were caught trying to set
fire to buildings in the south part Of
of the city. and were shot on the
spot. Two others We're led OFF with
ropes around their necks. w
A fnll car load Of provisions from
Marshalltown, n from Tama, and
one from Cedar Rapids, bound for the
sufferers of Chicago. went east on the
mail and express train onthe G. en-.