Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-16
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Eastern Dispatches.

in a manufacturing paint shop, at the
corner of Twelfth and Clarke streets,
where the workmen were mixing ma
terials, which exploded and causcd the
conhagration.
CHICAGO, July Il. 1890 T. M.-The
fgh, with the fire is now between Michi-
gan, State. Harrison and Van Buren, |
streets. Merchants continue moving far |
down in the business center. The last |
house to succumb was the St. James |
Hotel, which has just commenced to
burn. Many of the finest buildings in
that part o: the city have burned, though |
the majority are poor and shabby. The
people are exhausted, it being excessive
ly warm tonight. The fire swept into
and over tue First Baptist Church, and
what was last evening before shutdown
one of the most elegant and costly
church edifites Of our city, is now a heap
of smouldering ruins. As it was very
evident that from the course of the fire
and the strength of the wind, about half
past six clock the Postoffice building
was in all probability doomed. General
Macarthur, our Postmaster, made ar
rangements at once to remove the mails
to place of safety, and all needed teams
were at once pressed into service by him,
and by o'clock the last wagon load left
the building and the place was deserted.
By half past eight o'clock the building
was mass of flames. The wind, by s
O'Clock, had almost died away, which
assisted our Fire Department greatly in
becoming the masters of the situation,
and the corner where the Postoffice was
situated-at Wabash avenue and Harri-
son street.-The very point where our
previous great fire was stopped, our fire.
men seemed to be inspired with super
human efforts to prevent its spread into
the rebuilt district, and here it was that
! all their energies were concentrated to
bar its further progress. The building
on the southeast corner was large brick
dwelling house, and by making a bull
wark of this against the ever encroach-
ing sheets OF flames, the prospects of
/ holding this building and thereby prevent
ing the progress of the fire through to
Michigan avenue was quite probable.
1t seems somewhat singular that this fire
should be checked at the same place
where our previous big fire was checked,
and that the very building spared by the
previous fire should have been one of the
| last to succumb this time. The mails
were all removed to the sub-station on
the corner of West Washington and Hal
stead streets. Between Eidridge court
and Harrison street, on the east side Of
Wabash avenue, some dozen handsome
buildings were destroyed, while on the
west side OF the street, between these
limits, every building was leveled to the
ground. Looking westward the same
dead level OF ruins was presented which
was so wildly engraved on the memory
of our inhabitants in 1871.
The losses entailed by this fire in the
destruction andsfemoval of goods is as
great as the actual loss of buildings, for
it takes but a very small.sized fire now
a-days to set Chicago people to clearing
out their goods and chattels, and the
owners of about every store along Wa
bash avenue and State street, as far
north as Monroe street, were removing
their goods or the most valuable part of
them to places of safety. The occupants
of dwelling houses in the apparent line
of the fire were not slow in following the
instinct of self.preservation by the re-
moval of everything portable from the
, cellar to the garnet, and the destruction
entailed by the speedy and hurried exc
| dus will never figure among the losse:
sustained by insurance companies. 1t i:
, very probable that should the fire BE-
J stopped where it is at half-past s O'Clock
, considering the area burnt over, tn.
+ losses to insurance companies are yer,
s light. Although hundreds and hundreds
rendered homeless, the good suffering
with the bad Oh this occasion the bat
4 have suffered with the good, and proba
"a bly, that section of the city would nc
Ia have been purified of its slums so effec
.. tually in the next fifty years as it wa
~ this evening i'll the space OF three hour,
90 Thus Chicago has had not only anothe
= great conhagration. but great purifcl
- ton as WELL and will in the end be muc
"a better for it, by securing in the distri
- burnt wider streets and substantial bull,
~ ings compared with those lost
On the south the fire has reached nea
ly to jackson stareet and within OF
b block of the Palmer House. The S
ie James is the last house burned on Sta
10 street. One engine is reported burie
er 1t belonged to colored men. One ma
q fell through building and was kille
ly A policeman had leg broken while re
Suib5 u pOs tAC 4SApOoitiOu
&c ing. but is considered out OF DANCE
q. Contrary to the hopeful expectations e
=. pressed at hGlf-past eight o'clock, Il
II fire has gained upon our firemen. and
y. spite of all the efforts of the whole fl
department, the fire at half-past tt
o'clock had progressed northward on Il
re east side OF State street, which were lo
OF wooden buildings, and on Wabash av
~ nue. north from Harrison street, takil
re in both sides of tho street, and is wor
ing along on Michigan avenue towar
40 the north and in the direction of 4
%. Exposition building. The fire is at pre-
ce ent between Van Buren, and Jacks
streets in its northern limit, and is dri
ing north with great iierceness. AT pre-