The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-16
CLOSING ACCOUNT OF THE CHIcA-
o 90 FIRE.
List Of Sufferers, and Insur-
ance Losses.
Another Fire On The West Side.
Boston Offers Aid.
Terrible Fire at Oshkosh, Wis, and Iowa
Falls, Iowa.
Boston Offers Aid.

IT0U uedT ldylOT sJIcct W Aloiiiooh or,S
Third avenue from near Peck court 20 mar
rison, on the west side and block TURNER
on the east side; on State street from no.
50o near Harmon court. to 80, near Con-
oress. on the west side, and to the corner
of Van Buren, on the east side; Wabash
avenue from No ASP near Peck court, to
267, near the corner of Van Buren, on the
west side, and 294 on the east side !; on
Michigan avenue, burned about one block
living mostly between Van Buren, and Har-
rison streets.
The following are some of the principal
losses ST. james Hotel Remington EN-
pire Sewing Machine Company; E. Rem
ington & Sons gun and pistol manufac-
tory c. c. Charles, lamps and refectors.;
Prussing Vinegar Works; Schwarere q
Huber, stoves, &c; p. NJ Platt. clothing
C. Bauer, boots and shoes; A. Gambler,
watch maker; B. B. Parker, furniture /;
Woods Hotel Victor Waller, merchant
tailor: A. Schreierstein 4 Bro, furniture;
NJ. A. Kussner, millinery and dress goods !;
NJ. Adler, glassware Adam Miller, boots
and shoes; NJ. W, & f. Levy, furnaces,
ranges &c; Frost & Co., wholesale liz
uors Chicago Photographic & Copying
Company; S. H. Herzeberg, hats, caps
and furs; Andrews & Ropan, druggists
Chicago Terra Gotta Works; Olmstead &
Bankhead, tailors; Davis Sewing Machine
Company, on Michigan avenue; Chicago
Fine Art Institute Enoch Root, artist
the Sherman & Hand Mantel Company
Leonard W. Volk, sculptor J.R. Robert
son, artist, on Clark street all small shan
ties, on Van Buren, street, r. G. Anthony
livery stable Burley & Cypril, china and
glass ware; Boomer & Juncks, furnaces ;
Star Galvanized Iron Cornice Company 8
works; Bangs Bros. hardware and stoves !;
on State street, Savings Bank on Polk
street, Weber 4 Duckhart.drugs on Har-
rison street. Frank H. Perrady X Co. min
eral water; First Precinct Police Station /;
Postal Record Printing Company; Hugo
Selle Il Bro, merchant tailors; H. Ii.
Wilkinson, merchant tailors S. Liv-
ingston, -four and feed John D. Nc
Lean, 4 Co., hardware Pekin Tea Com
pany; Sinclair Bros, hardware; W. ID.
Field, Stationery and jewelry; &. Steiger,
wines and liquors $. G. Grggs & Co.,
publishers the Postoffice C. o. D Laun-
dry; Geo. Northrup's Hydraulic Excel
sior, o. |. e. and California laundries
Chief Justice Banyon lost his office and his
entire valuable law library Jayne & AL.
minis lose their fine art emporium; the
James school building, corner of Harrison
and Third avenue, was burned; the IIough
block, corner Harrison street and Wabash
avenue and Mandel Bros. building was
burned.
Twelfth street - L. Z. Mickle,
wagon manufacturer II. Brinkworth,
pork packer; l.. Karner, stocking and
shirt mandatory; corner Chicago, Rock
Island Il Pacific freight depot Gross &
Phillips Manufacturing Company; Hart Il
Goodell, carpenters and builders Willets
carriages, &c; L. TNeville, carriage man
utactory
The following casualties are reported up
to date: Jacob Minser is unable to find
his two children, left at his house on Third
avenue ayoung man was crushed by the
falling Of wall at the corner of Wabash
avenue and Van Buren, street name un.
known Mike began was killed by the col.
llslon OF his express wagon with a fire en-
CINE on Polk street Geo Wagner, fire.
man, fell, exhausted by overwork during
the blowing up Of n building on Wabash
avenue, one man was struck on the head
by stone and instantly killed
The following are the hotels burned At
lantic Hotel, on the corner of Van Buren,
and Sherman; Berg House, corner Polk |
and Harrison Michigan Avenue Hotel
Wabash House, Nos. SIS and $50 Wabash |
avenue; St. James. Churches-Keehe- |
lath Briai Shalom Synagogue, 392 Wabash
avenue First Baptist Church, 403 and
4O5 Wabash avenue Jewish Synagogue,
429 and 43l Wabash avenue The house
of Horace White of the Tribune, was
burned, and that of j. Y. Scammon, for
merly of the Inter Ocean.
The Post and IHuH has partial list of
insurance, which aggregates 81 $500 It'll
Is gathered from the various insurance
companies in town. The Continental,
Brewers and Masters Exchange, Mer-
chants and Peoples Companies risks amount
to SITS 200, on which the loss will not ex-
coed fifty per cent the Clay Insurance |
Company, Of Newport, Ky, 5000; Mer-
chants, Chicago, $1,000 Orient, Hartford,
and Lancashire of Connecticut, Compa-
MES, $4,000. Franklin County, Boston.
So Al.emaine, OF Pittsburg, and Mill
vile Fire, and Marine $4,000; Phpnix.
OF Brooklyn; New Hampshire, of Man.
chester and Mississippi Valley Companies,
$50 .0O0i Atlantic and Pacific, 100000;
Michigan State Company $4,000; Queen,
OF Liverpool, aud Commerce, of Albany
500, Mechanics and Traders, of New
York, $4,000; Union Frame, of PbiIadel.
phia, $1,000; lmperial,of London Amer
ican Centra', OF Sr. Louis, Standard, Of
New York; 81. Joseph, of Glasgow La.
mar, OF New York and Manufacturers.
OF Newark, $1,000; Home, Howard. Girl
zens, and Manhattan National. of \ Y.
America, OF Pittsburg and New Orleans
Companies 10000; Cumwercc of :,
Louis, and German, of Freepurt. ljooO
Citizens, of Frauklyn, aud Il. Louis I50
600; National Peoples and SateguarJ az
Philadelphia, aud Home of Galveston. VA
900; German, Of Erie Germauia.of New
Orleans American Underwriters. of pniI- ?
adelphia Merchants 4 Mechanics. nt
Owensburg, New York, $4,000 Under, .
writers and Niagara, Of New York. and
Fireman's, OF Dayton. 40.OtO u 5u.uo !.
Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia. 300
Farmers, of New York, 1900: Farmers.
of York, Pa, 1900; Gen. +. Farmer a
Co.. 10000; Pennsylvania American. the
Fire Association & Reading Co. 5O.sn
st. Paul Insurance Co. I5.Wn: Fire In.
surance Co., of Cleveland. luusu. .Ftna.
of Hartford, $4,000
BosToN. July Ij.-The following dis
patch was sent to-day:
CITY Hall Bosom, July Is
To His Honor, Mayor Gown, Chicago:
Our citizens deeply sympatLize with your
people in the losses and sufferings caused
BY the present fire. Can We do anything tn
alleviate your misfortunes? Boston is
ready now, as ever. 10 extend a helping
hand to our sister city Chicago.
(SigBedl, SAMUEL COBB, Mayor
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