The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-16
THE CHICAGO FIRE,
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS

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gratulate themselves that they have
escaped the destruction Of the most i'm
portant business portion ofthe city, which
appeared at one time imminent This
time the fire originated in low frame
building used for storing rags, adjoining
an oil factory that stood between Fourth
Avenue and Clark street. The great
fire of 1871 originated on Taylor street,
in stable, and in both cases the fire
commenced in a neighborhood occupied
bv wooden buildings. There was also a
stiff southwest breeze SO that by the time
| the flames had consumed the small
dwellings, stables, carpenter shops and
buildings filled with oil, paper and rags
and had reached State street where there
were substantial business houses, they
were like the heat of furnace and all
consuming in their power. Thus the
cOllulllOIlS loI SI'ht 'o''H"o '''N''''
were not wanting. Fortunately AFTER
burning nearly twenty blocks and de-
stroying the First Baptist Church and
two other churches, the post office, -.
james and Michigan Avenue Hotels,
the Mter-Ocedn block and several other
elegant blocks, erected after the fire Of
1871, together with numerous fine resi-
dcnces, the flames were stayed, right on
the very doors of the heaviest business
blocks and the best hotels.
THE LESSON LEARNED.
The Tribune says, editorially: Every
cool headed observer of the fire must
have felt that we have paid light pen
atty for allowing our magnificent busl-
ness centres to be- surrounded with wood
en rookerics. We have come of cheap.
The great gildcd martyr around which
the faggots have been So protuscly Y piled.
has not vet been burned to death. Per-
haps this small calamity will show us
how to save it; perhaps not. There are
now some sixty acres of burned territory
between the fagots and the victim. This
zap NAV be the means of saving what is
| left. If SO. let Us thank God that the
prc-drstined fate of every wooden build
! ing in large city is to be burned some
time. We have now offered up sixty
acres of our combustiblc material u Il
sacrifice To the genius of free institutions,
meaning thereby the freedom of every
man to keep II tinder box and al oil fac
torv where it suits him best. Would
that we could say this is the last of such
mad folly. 1t is not Chicago that has
thousands upon thousands Of wooden
| shantr> to feed future fires, and go down
they will, all in good time.
The TUnrS and Inter- Ocean also speak
in strong terms of the folly of allowing
wooden buildings in the city limits.
THg LIMITS OF THE FIRE.
The following are the exact limits of
| the fire, us viewed this morning: The
fire burned small portion Of Clark
street, near 18th, where it originated; ;
| thence took Third and Fourth avenues,
between Peck Court and Twelfth streets
| and burned them rs far as Harrison street ;
| State street was burned from iarrnan
! Court To Van Buren, street; Wabash av-
cnuc from No. 452, near the corner of
| Peck Court, to No. 2j7, near the corner
| of Van Buren, street; Michigan avenue
! has burned from Harrison street to Van
| Buren,, II short distance. The business
| buildings burned out on the east side of
State street number cighty-ninc; on. the
west side ninety-SiI; on the east side of
| Wabash avenue, tw"nty->iy; on the west
| side thirtv-four; on Michigan avenue
| twelve; on the east side of Clark street
! fourteen; on the north side of Van Bu-
rcn street six; south side six; on the north
side Of Peck street eight; south sid" four;
! north side of Harrison street twelve;
! south side sixteen; south side of Twelfth
! street thirteen; north side twenty-five.
THE PROMINENT LOSERS.
Prominent among tn" business losses
are the ST. James Hotel; VIM. Bod-mann,
druggist; Remington Empire Sewing
Machine Company; f. Remington X
! Sons gun and pistol manuiactory; y. L..
Smith X Co, carriage manufacturers;
! RupemnusSen Bros, boots and shoes; {.
G. Charles lamps and refecton;. IL.
| Sladc, carriages; \. W. Wheeler. hard
ware; q. McHenry, sale stables; j. Prcs-
/ sing, vinegar works; Schwarcr Il Huber.
/ slaves &c. b. +. Givandon II Frcstrd,
signs &c; p. VI. Platt, clothing; p H.
| Mayer, l.. {. Chacc " Co.. saddles and
harness; A. :. Chretertein i Bro, iurmi-
turr manufacturers; VI. W. Il Co,
| furnaces, ranges. &c; Frost n Co..
, wholesale liquor DEALER; John ID. Nc
I Leon x Co., stoves and ranges; II. u ~
/ Nevbergcr furniture; Van Bramc "
| Flood, hardware and stovr-; Scng X
Beck. billiards; Heters, Munich X Co..
blacksmiths; Mcndcl X Bros. dry goods ;
Berg House; Horace Buchmin,ter, res-
taursnt; 7. VI. Altman, artist materials; /;
! Murphy, cigars; Greeman i Strickland,
/ poultry and game; John VI. Lowry X
+ Co. meat; Joel Bigclow. Pekin Tea Co.;
| w. l.. Cole, blacksmith; Henry Dick.
boots and shoes; f. ID. Moscly. grocer
I Siuclair Bros, hardware and stoves;
Mr.. +. Berg millinery: f. J. Malcom
X Co., stoves and tinwarc; Weber &
Luckhardt, druggists; T. Batter X Co..
groccr>; {. 4. Jummick. tailor; c. T..
Lohmann, photographer; H. {. Klein
! schmidt, watches. &c.
West side-J. Wingrade, Jr, X Co.
gas fixtures; Adclphi Theatre; Penne-
Yer, Shaw 4 Co, carriage manufacturers
VIM. +. Spencer X Co., cutlery; Cowp-
erthwsit X Co., publishers; Walworth,
Winsworth & Co., publisher; 5. C.
Griggs X Co., publishers; Postottice;
7 Carvey. Haskell X Co.. carriage painters;
Miss \. 7. Ryan. umbrellas, &c.; T. VI.
F"sseth, photographer; O,r FIrssids
Friend; Northwest Lun,GermdH; Ne,r
Corendmt; Chicago Terra Gotta Co;
Davis Sewing Machine Co.; Mrs. Slough
ton. millinery; Pennoyer, Shaw X Co.
carriage manufacturing company; Pat
I O'Neil. liquors; Chicago fine art institute;
En"ch Root, artist; Schureman y