The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-15


vice and at 8 o'clock the last loaded team
left the bnilding. At 10 minutes past eight
the building caught fire and by half-past 8
it was mass Of flames.
The wind by 8 o'clock had almost died
away, which assisted the fire department
greatly in becoming masters Of the situa-
ton
At the corner where the postoilice was
stuatcd-Wabash avenue and Harrison
street very point where the previous
great fire was stopped, the fircmen seemed
to be inspired to supcrhuman efforts to
prevent further spreading into'thc rebuilt
district, and here it was that all their cner
| gies were concentrated to bar its further
progress. The building on the southeast
corner was large brick dwelling house,
and the prospect of holding this building
and saving it, thereby preventing the pro-
gress of the fire to Michigan aycnue, was
quite promising mt $50 p. M, when the
northeast corner Of these streets, occupied
by the postoflicc, was then a mass of flames.
AS very heavy and high brick buildings
adjoined the postollice on the north there
is no doubt that the spread of the fire north
of Wabash avenue from this point has been
checked. Among the buildings destroyed
on the east side of Wabash avenue was the
church building formerly occupied by the
congregation of Robert Lairds college. 1t
appears somewhat singular that the con.
nagration should be checked at the very
building spared by the previous fire.
On Wabash avenue some dozen hand
some buildings were destroyed. The whole
Of the west side of the avenue between
these limits every building was lcyclcd with
the ground, and looking west the same
wide level of ruins is presented ms was SO
wildly engraved on the memory Of our in
habitants in 1871.
The losses cntailed by this fire in the de-
struction and removal of goods and flrni-
ture is, in all probability, as great as the
actual loss on buildings destroyed up TO
$50 p. M, for it takes but moderate sized
fire to induce Chicago people to move out
their goods and chattcs. About every
store along Wabash avenue and State street
as far north as Monroe street, was remoy-
ing its goods, or the most valuable part
thereof, to places of safety, and dwelling
houses in this apparent line of the fire were
not slow in following the same instinct of
self-preservation by the removal of every
thing portable from cellar to garnet.
The destruction entailed by this speedy
and hurried exodus well swell figure among
losses sustained by assurances companies.
1t is very probable should the fire be stayed
where it now is considering an area burnt
over the losses to the insurance com
pany are very light, although hundreds and
hundreds of families lost theirall and have
been rendered homeless.
As the good suffer with the bad on maiy
occasions, so in this instance the bad have
suffered with the good, and probably that
section of the city would not have been
purified of its sums so cffectually ana
thoroughly in the next fifty years TO come
as it has this evening in the space of three
hours. Chicago has not only had another
big connagration but great publication as
well and will in the end be better for it.
LATEsT-10:30 p. m.
The fight with the fire is now on State
street and Wabash avenue, between Van
, Buren, and Harrison streets. The flames
seem TO be slowly giving way to the per
sistent efforts of the firemcn, and it is
hoped will be stayed before long. st.
James Hotel is the last building that has
commenced to burn, but if the fire depart
, ment can concentrate their efforts on that
particular locality indicated above, the
spread Of the fire will be more gradually
checked.
IL p. m.-ContrarY to the hopeful eX-
pectatuns expressed at $50 o'clock the fire
at this time has gained upon the fire de-
partment and in spite of all their efforts.
The fire at 100 o'clock has progressed
northwarl and taken the block ON the east
side of state street, which consisted of two
wooden buildings, and on Wabash avenue
north from Harrison street one block and
a half taking in both sides of the street and
! working over along on Michigan avenue
f toward the exposition building. The fire
is at present between Van Buren, and Jack
: son streets, and burning with great fierce
ness.
AT present the fire is apparently beyond
= the control of our fire department, and en-
gines are on the way from Bloomington,
. Watervile, Aurora, Joliet, Elgin, Racine
: Dixon and Amboy to assist, and if the wind
| does increase or change there is great hopes
G that the fire may be crowded into the lake
f as is estimated in the dispatches sent at six
I o'clock.
Among the noticeable buildings which
q have been destroyed is the Gardner House
= St. James Hotel, Continental and Aldelphi
, theatre The fire then was only two blocks
, from the Palmer House, and the consterna.
p ton is very great among the guests. The
roof of that hotel is being protected by men
8 with water appliances of their own and
n every effort will be made by the proprc-
tors to save the building.
h 11.30 p. m.-The southern boundaries OF
v the fire are No 475 Wabash Avenue just
! south of Eldrdge Court, No. 5lS State
o street near Harmon Court, and No. 25S
e Third Avenue, between Peck Court and
e 10th street.
On the corner of Peck Court and Wa
n bash Avenue rs the only point where the
h flames have any hold. The fire Originated
0 in a paint manufacturing shop corner OF
C 10Th and Clark streets. Some workmer
o were mixing paint and an explosion oc
|. Cured which ignteo the building on nortl
a fire has broken out at corner of Michigan
n avenue and Congress streets. Michigan