The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-06-22
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tlu wlils only are left 10 tell the story
ot ihrlF former %granluef. Leaving tho
corner Ul Congress street and Michigan
avenue and driving along the lake and
through the upper portion Of the city 10
Lincoln park, for i've miles, the eye rests
upon nothing but n shapeless mass Of
wreck aud ruin. The great cathedral,
thc bishops mansion, Potter Palmer's
hotel palace, hundreds Of elegant aad ex-
pcnsive .tores and dwellings ali fell before
the nlmc storm, which consumed In
twenty four hours five hundred millions
Of dollars worth Of property.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE
g. the entire absence Of rubbish aside
from the walls left standing. Scarcely a
stone or brick or a scrap Of iron can be-
seen on the ground. IL is all reduced TO
powder.
The fire passed by and around the wa
ter tower fronting the avenue, without
even SCATTERING a pane of glass, aud at
tackled the rear building, bu~rning..out all
the wood works and injuring the engines
50 as 10 render them powerless. This cut
of the supply OF water, and left the great
city entirely at the mercy Of the merci-
less lleud.
THE HEAVIEST SUFFERERS.
had n lengthy conversation with NJ.
-. Ogden, Esq, the largest lumber deal
or IN the west. His residence alone es-
capped, and now stands solitary and alone
in a wilderness of desolatiOn, covering
an area three miles long by one mile wide.
It H. a double frame structure, two stories
high, with a mansard roo, and escaped
without being scorchcd. The flames
came sweeping down Dearborn street,
leaving scarcely one stone upon another,
and was caught by a counter current of
wind Just Mt his house, and changing It's
course, shot In another direction, leaving
naught in its way but wreck and ruiz.
In other portions Of the city Mr.. Ogden
was less fortunate. His vast lumber
yards were swept away. including three
and a halt million feet OF pine and
other lumber, and entalllng upon him q
loss of fully two millions of dollars.
AsAD SCENE.
His nephew, VIM. Jones, is among the
many victims who were deyOured by the
flames. lie removed his family from his
residence, and had parted with his wife
but a few moments, when his horse and
buggy were seen dashing along the
streets, and 1t is presumed that the young
man was thrown out and burnt before he
could escape. TO add to his losses, Mr..
Ogden received a telegram yesterday an.
%nounCing that his lumber mills at Pesh.
tigo, on Green Bay, Wisconsin had been
destroyed, together with the town, burn.
ing alive thirty souls, including his part.
ntr, wife and three children, his nephew
and wife and his superintendent and fam.
lily of three. The dispatch added "ThC
woods are all ablaZe and we fear youl
pinery will be destroyed Mr.. Ogder
bore up brayely under this series of ap,
palling disasters, merely remarking, al
this be true, ! shall lose 5000 900 NOR,
and be a ruined man" This is but one
OF the many terrible stories | hear hourly
POTTER pALMER's LOSSES
are immense. Two miles of magniiicen
stores on State street are in ruins and hi
grand hotel, the Pacific house. Is gone
lie had invested millions of dollars IL
bHildiug mp Chicago, and to do this hat
mortgaged heavily the larger part of hi
improved property. 1t was but a shor
time before the fire, that he secured
loan of 5000, 600 at I 3-l0per cent and b,
has nothing left to meet his heavy loan
but barren lots and what little improved
property may have been spared in tn,
southern part of the city, entirely mad
equate to make him whole. He wa
largely Insured in home companies, mos
, Of which are bankrupt and unable t
meet their losses.
= Ill GRAIN BONFIRE.
Tue elevators, which completely envI
| roned the city, and which contribute
Z largely to the trade of Chicago, wer
swept away In a few moments. Their
are but four left standing, two owned b
Mum q Scott, one by Flint 81 ThomI
son, and the central elevator on the LAKE
{ Three million bushels of grain are sti
burning, making monstrous boniire'
: which, with the acres of coal ON fir,
] east a dismal glare over the ruins
u night, and present a heart sickenin
+. spectacle.
. THE LOSS OF LIFE
c cannot at present be computed, but
has doubtless been fearful. Alread
over a hundred charred bodies have bee
dug from the ruins, and hundreds
/ frantic persons are securing the city
g search of their loved ones, who hay
Q been missing since Sunday. An oil
French woman, who barely escaped wit
n her life, told me to-day that she counte
n no less than forty persons, men, wome
and children, In the river at one time, a
s of whom met a watery grave.
c AFEARFUL REPORT.
The servants at the fremont hou.
!, were in the top story of the hotel at I'll
time of its conflagration, and as none