Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-11-03
Fire Items.

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The Chicago Journal says an ap.
proximate measurement of the lines
of streets destroyed by the Great
Fire, shows that about SIXTY miles of
streets were laid waste.-A Demo
cratic paper at Fayette, No., rejoices
that Chicago 10 burned.-Robert
Collyer's son was to have been mar
ried on Tuesday evening, but house,
church, furniture and all were burn
ed the day beforea On Wednesday
the wedding took place, the young
bride being dressed ina calico gown
the only dress saved.--Of the first
seventy bodies taken to the dead
house all but two were too badly burn
ed to be recognized. In some cases the
friends recovered the bodies of the
dead and buried them without q
Coroner's inquest. The actual loss
Of life con never be known.--Gov.
Bross, of the Tribune, has nothing to
show for two OF three hundred thous-
and dollars worth of household
property and productive investments
Potter Palmer loses $3.50. 900 Of an.
nual rents.--The Advance tells n
OF the sorrowful stories, of a lady
well known In art and musical cir
cles, whose husband became separat.
ed from her early In the fire, She
escaped in only a night wrapper, was
driven in distraction by the terrors
of the wild fight, and was picked up
In Lincoln Park in a state of more
than half insanity. In the direst
need OF care from her own sex, ready
to die, almost, from extreme exhans-
ton, and wandering in mind most of
the time, she was laid on a pallet
with scores of others on a church
floor, receiving, till her friends found
her. only the care of two men, kind
but utter strangers,--A newly
married couple, who had come to
Chicago to spend their honey moon,
were stopping at one of the hotels
About midnight, alarmed by the
signals of fire, the gentleman went
out to get a view of It, but presently
returned to prepare for instant flight.
Not wishing to startle his fair bride,
he simply told her to dress herself to
60 out to look at the fire. q As she
was doing so he told her to put on
her best things, and thus save as
much as possible. Comprehending
at once the situation, she drew the
sheets from the bed, spread them on
the floor, emptisd the contents of
their trunks into them, tied them
into bundles, and so fled down Wa
bash Avenue, each with a bundle
over the shoulder, not unlike Adam
and Eve driven forth at the point of
a Flaming sword which isturned
every way."-Two young ladies,
teaching on the North Side, were
aroused Monday morning at three
o'clock, seized the trunks and fed.
The flames compelled them to drop
it. and 80 closely did the fire follow
upon their footsteps, that before they
had gone a square looking back, they
saw that the trunk was blazing. Be.
wildered completely, they knew not
which way to flee. .FThe sky was
filed was filled with smoke and
flames. Behind them stretched a
fre>line more than a mile wide
Thousands of peopte were jostling
one another in the streets. Fright
ened horses were ~plnnging and the
people screaming with terror. The
helpless girl hurried from place to
place, threading their way in and out
between omnibuses, drays, trucks
and carriages, none Of which would
stop for an instant 10 take them on
board. And SO for eighteen frightful
hours they fled through the Labyrinth
until, far beyond Lincoln Park, safe
at last, they sank upon the ground
and slept the sleep of utter exhaus>
tion.-The Green Bay 4dvooate
says the pine damaged by the recent
fires on the Wolf River and its tribu-
1.-THE Shoe, tEmbarras, and
Red Rivers) will amount to SO, 900, 600
feet. If this. pine is all cut the com
Ing winter, and got to the streams the
the damage to it will be about $l.OO
per thousand feet but if not cut tile
loss will be almost total, as 1t would
be bored by worms another season,
and destroyed for every purpose but
fencing. There Is very little pine
injured above Keshna. Thus the
lightest estimate of damage to the
Wolf river il $4,000. The pineries
the bay shore have suffered to
still greater extent, but the dams
age Is easily repaired, provided the
fumberman car raise the means to
put into the river two or three years
stock of logs, for a much greater
amount Of logs can be put into the
Menominee, Oconto and Peshtigo
Rivers, which are not navigabie than
into the Wolf, where they would in.
terfere with navigation,
Alsace and Lorraine.
The emigration from Alsace aud
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