Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-13
CHICAGO.
Losses Four Hundred Millions.
insurance q Hundred and Twenty
Millions.
Fearful Columns Of Missing.
The Outlook Of the Future.
Relief VIII be Needed ALI Winter
Business to be Resumed
Forthwith.
incidents OF the Great Disaster.
Incidents of the Great Disaster
The Scene OF DesOIatlOn.
A Quiet Night.

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nothing occurred to disturb the city. Gen,
Sheridan has complete control and conf
dence is fully restored,
The various committees are busy, and
! now that relief Is thoroughly organized all
the needy are being relieved.
Manifesto of Relief Committees.
The relief committees. appointed Inv the
dliierent cities of the country, to bring SUD-
plies and to investigate the Immediate ne
ceSsltles OF the devastated city of Chicago,
beg leave to present this appeal to the com
mercial men and capitalists of the United
states;
After careful survey of calamity I'M
paralleled in the history of the world, with
the evidence before them of overwhelming
losses. Mental trials, individual sufferings
ana pressing necessities never before ex-
perienced by any community, pray their
fellow citizens and especially those having
business relations with Chicago, a city
whose enterprise, industry and exhaustless
| energy have conferred honor on the Ameri-
can people, to sustain the business mea in
this their hour of trial. Their calamity is
great. Let your confidence abide with
them. Extent to them a generous
liberality by compromise aud extensions
when needed, and by the largest possible
advances in money, so that the business
| property of the city may be restored, the
desolated districts rebuild and its greatness
re-established.
Chicago Pluck.
| The Republican this morning the anuivers-
ary OF its first year under its present pro-
prietors issues small half sheet and an
nounces its determination to continue pub
| lication.
The Tribune comes out with an entire
sheet this morning with more than a whole
| page OF advertisements, mostly announce
ments of merchants and other business
men of opening new places of business.
| The Tribune in an editorial headed Gre
build the city," says:
"All is not lost. Though four hundred
millions of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed, Chicago still exists. She
was not mere collection of stone, brick
and lumber. These were but the evidences
of the power which produced these things.
They were but the external proof of the high
! courage, unconquerable energy, strong faith
and restless perseverance which have built
up here commercial metropolis. The
great natural resources are all in existence:
the Lake with its navies, the spacious har-
Dor, the vast empire of production extend
ing westward to the Pacific, the great out
let from the lakes to the ocean, the thirty
six lines of railroads connecting the CITY
with every part of the continent-these, the
great arteries of trade and COM
merce, all remain unimpaired, un-
diminished, and ready for immediate
resumption. What therefore has been lost? |
We have lost the accumulated profits of |
twenty years of prosperous growth. We |
hos-o l1ast al L. A
night of the fire. We have lost money, but |
We have saved life, health, vigor and indus |
try. We have dozen grain elevators re-
naming. We have the material on hand |
with which to replace those we have lost. |
We will have within thirty-six hours time |
the whole country to draw upon for supplies |
of every description ofgoOds. In two weeks |
from the date of the fire our merchants can |
fill almost any order for merchandise that |
may be sent them. The credit of Chicago |
is saved. When the whole country has |
faith and hope and confidence in us, there |
will be no depression in Chicago itself. The |
wholesale trade of the city can be resumed |
at once. Temporary warehouses are being |
erected and business resumed. Let no |
trouble be borrowed from the past. All the |
losses of the fire will in time bS passed into |
the great clearing house and the payment /
of balances will be made easy for every
body. Rich men have become poor; the \
accumulations of years have been destroyed; I
but no one will sit down and waste time,
crying over split milk. Let us avail our
selves of the liberal spirit which the country |
has shown in our calamity. There are no |
relentless creditors pressing us for payment, |
fOreClOsing mortgages or demanding the |
full measure of their bonds. On the con-
trary, the world is asking us to take money,
unlimited credit, and go ahead, leaving the |
past to be taken care of in the future when |
Chicago shall have resumed her power and |
glory. Let the watchwOrd henceforth be, |
Chicago shall rise again"
Chicago's Gratitude.
This editorial reflects perfectly the almsst
universal feeling Of citizens of all classes
in regard to future business prospects, as
so the following from the same paper,
$50 far as mere words can do, their graft
tude for the universal sympathy which has
been expressed in the most practical form
for the sorely smitten city. The writer
says:
"The response of the people Of the United |
States to the appalling calamity which has
overtaken 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, how |
ever, the stricken people have already rous-
ed themselves from the first stunning, be- |
wildering effects of the terrible blow to |
their business, and are manfrllly girding |
themselves to rebuild their ruined fortunes, |
the eighty dead bodies already lying in !
CHASTITY rows in the MOrgue, the two long |
columns of names of missing in this morn |
ing's paper, the churches and schoOlhouses |
crowded still with half clothed weeping wo- |
men and children are terrible reminders of |
the calamity whose whole horrors no words |
will ever be found to describe"
At the MOrgue.
The bodies in the Morgue were mostly |
found on the North side, and it is but too
certain that only a small port n of the |
number who were caught in5h' raging sea !
OF flames and utterly consumed. The Cor |
Oner on yesterday held inquests on sixty |
four bodies in the MOrgue, only two of |
which were recognizable. One Of these |
was Henry j. Ullman, the banker, the find |
ing of whose body was mentioned yester- |
day, and the other a man named Peter
O'Brien.
lie DOuN Oh the man VINO mad craWled |
into a large water main was recognized as
AlecksOn, living at No. 81 Milwaukee ave-
nue..
About twenty bodies of those recovered
were taken from the Easements of two
buildings on the North Side, near Chicago
avenue bridge.
The Organization of Relief
Yesterday morning the Relief Committee
was thoroughly organize, Orrin E. Moore
being elected President, c.. T. Hotchkiss,
Secretary, and David A. Gage, Treasurer.
The committee met in conjunction with the
CITY Council and voted that all moneys
should be received by the single hand of
David A. Gage, the Treasurer, and be dis
bursed on the signature of the President
and Secretary, endorsed by the Auditing
| Committee. Subcommittee were ap-
pointed in every department and it is be-
lieved that very thorough work is being ac-
complished in receiving and distributing
| supplies.
! Probably forty thousand people were fed
! yesterday by the committees. and provisions
are coming in from all directions.
DR.. FIear one of our well known physi-