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TKLEeRAPH COMPANY.
THE CALAMITY !!
THE FIRE STOPPED.
Two Thousand Special Police
ON Duty
THE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
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rSoRNDIARIsM RAMPANT.
Scenes at the Insurance d.
fees in New York.
Several Prominent Insurance Com
panies Suspended Business.
Scenes at the Insurance d.
fees in New York.
Several Prominent Insurance Com
panies Suspended Business.
The Etna Company Announces Its
Ability to Pay all Losses.

CHICAGO, October 1.-THE city is Still
in confusion. The churches are made
soup and lodging houses. Bread is sold
at eight cents loaf by proclamation
The Tribune is the only paper issued,
which is sold at twenty-five cents per
copy.
Three thousand special police are on
duty with the regulars and the military
force from the camp near. town. len
thousand troops are expected from
Omaha to-day. Sheridan is to be IN
command.
The only prominent walls standing on
the ruins is the postofice, Tribune build
ing, Pacific Hotel and the First National
Bank.
The Pittsburg fire department arrived
at six o'clock this morning.
General Sheridan has eight hundred
soldiers here, and with the special po-
lice will keep order. ~
The city is full of thieves and incenT
diaries and the police are shooting them
on sight.
Sixty dead bodies were found in one
barn.
The convicts in jail were released.
Orders were issued to shoot all bad
characters on the spot and no questions
asked.
Incendiarism is rampant. Yesterday
six men we're shot on the streets, and
three hung to lamp posts.
One hundred dead bodies have been
exhumed.
Crowds of people are digging for safes
in the ruins, and looking for valuables.
The business stands are recognized by
sign boards.
The city headquarters are in the Con-
gregational church. Five thousand peo-
pie are in line waiting to get free passes
out Of the city.
Chicago wants no food, but blankets
and clothing. F
CHICAGO, October 1.-THE line of the
conhagration as previously published is
correct, as also the map accounts, which
are not exaggerated.
The city is under martial law and sol
diers are patrolling the streets, f,
Provisions are arriving Visitors to
the sad spectacle of the ruins are arriv-
ing from all parts Of the West The
charred remains of 1000 persons, as yet
unknown, have been found; sixty in one
barn on the west side. The loss of life
is estimated as very great.
The police are ordered to kill all per
sons found stealing, or attempting tc
steal, from the safes. The following
public buildings are entirely destroyed
Times, Tribune, journal, Post, Even
ing Mail. Republican, and nearly
all the publishing offices in the city
the elegant stores Of the Western News
Company; Keen, Cook g. Co., s., c
Riggs & Co.; Field, Letter & Co., thirt,
national banks and most of the private
banking-houses; the courthouse, Cham
Der of Commerce, ..Water-works, Mich
gan Southern and Michigan Contra
depots, Crosby's Opera House-includ
ing the Art Gallery, Academy Of DE
sign; Palmer, Sherman, fremont, Briggs
New Pacific (nearly done), Adams, Ne
vada, and many other hotels.
Parents are hunting for children VIII,
are believed to have persisted in tn
flames. Most of the business firms hav
opened in temporary offices in the part
of the city unbnrned. Safes are bein
drawn out of the heeps Of blackene
rubbish. Street cars are running to-day
The South Side, as far as Harrisoi
street, is a mass Of ruins. Totterin
walls, chimneys and suspended beam
rise like spectres of departed glory
The fire is stayed-haying burned owe
an area of twenty square miles. No.
comes the task of estimating the losi
removing the rubbish, insurance assets
hunting out the dead, and, lastly, r,
building this commercial metropolis.
New YoRK, October 1.-THE scene
in and around the insurance companies
offices yesterday were unusually exciting
Officers and employees worked with
will to arrive at some sort Of an estimat
of the possible losses, but in the case c
some of thelarger companies no estimai
can be made for two or three days. RI
mors of every description we're hyin
about the city as to the solvency Of thi
! or that company. At one time it wa
positively asserted that the Home Con
pany must stop. Later in the affernoo
their losses were put down at s., 600, 0O'
The Security, also, is supposed to B