New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-18
CHICAGO.
Another Great COn1agratiOn in Chicago
A Willie of Lumber Yards and Two
Hundred DwellinghOuses Burned.

First Dispatch.
CHICAGO, September ia mile of lum-
Der yards is burning. High winds prevail,
and there is considerable anxiety.
Isecond Dispatch.I
The fire is finally under complete control,
and notwithstanding strcng wind is blow
ing from the southwest, further damage is
not apprehended. People who, when the
excitement was at its height, removed their
goods from houses several blocks, are now
moving them back. Loss aggregates quite
light for the space burned, not over 200 houses
having been destroyed Loss to the poor
people rendered homeless, however, is
severe. The prairie west of the fire is COW
cred with household goods. Full particu-
lars will follow later.
Third Dispatch.l
The total loss by the fire to-day is esti-
mated at $2j0.00 to 100000. The total
number Of buildings destroyed is placed at
sixty-four being wooden tenements from
one to three stories high, occupied mainly
as residences and stores or shops and dwell
ings combined.
The fire originated in large wooden shed,
used by the Chicago, Burlington and
/ Quincy and Northwestern railroads for the
storage and transfer of hay, situated at the
Csrner of New berry avenue and railroad
track, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
and the fire caught from a spark which
| flew in from passing train. Almost before
| an alarm could be sounded the entire shed,
with it's intlammable contents, was mass
of flames, and, there being at the time a
stiff breeze from the southwest, the first
engine had scarcely arrived before the fire
had spread to row of wooden houses on
the north, and from them to the buildings
on the east side of Halsted street.
The Gppnp1 alarm GtrnrS and
soon after third, which called to the scene
the entire fire department, which was soon
at work with courage and energy which
challenged the admiration of every one
Meantime. the streets in the line of the fire
were literally swarming with people, bur
dened with every variety of household
goods, rushing to places of safety. The
soon covered with furniture, bedding.
clothing ETC., which the fleeing inhabitants
of the doomed dwellings had managed to
save. Intense excitement prevailed in the
DeighborhoOd, and many people living seve-
raj blocks from the line of the fire began to
pack up and move their portable property
The dry goods firms of Field, Letter d
Co. and Farwe,l g. Co., as soon as they
heard of the extent of the fire, sent all their
trucks and teams and placed them at the
disposal of those whose homes were threat
ened, and they were all soon employed in
removing those whose fears lmpelled them
to seek safety in flight. One of the omni-
gus lines also sent their vehicles to the re-
lief of those desiring to leave the dangerous
vicinity.
Fourth Dspatcb.t
Owing to the magnificent work of the fire
department, however, the removal Of many
proved unnecessary. At Mitchell street
the flames were stopped in their progress
northward. while its spread in westerly
direction was stayed on the west side of
Halsted street: the east line had at not any
time crossed Newberry avenue, and the
track of the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy railroad formed its southern boundary.
Filth Dispatch
1t ia impossible at this hour to give any
detailed statement of the individual losses
They are. however, divided among so many
people that with exceptions, no person
loses $4,000. Selignan Heilbroun, furni-
ture manufacturer, loses $27 900; fully in
eured. The loss by the burning of the hay
depot, where the FIRE started. can not be
asoertained, but is probably not over