New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-16
CONFEDERATION.
The Locale of the. Fire-About Twenty
Squares in Ruins How Ii was Finally
Checked - The Losses - Prominent
Buildings Eurned-LOss Of Life.

Checked - The Losses - Prominent
Buildings Eurned-Loss Of Life.
CHICAGO, Jnly l5.-The southern bounds
of the fire are now No. 475 Wabash avenue,
Just south of Eidridge Court: No. 5lS State
street. near Han mon Court; No. 253S. Third
avenue, bet xeen Peck Court and Eighteenth
street. On the corner of Peck Court and
Wabash avenue is the only place where the
flames haveany hold.
The ire originated in the paint manutac-
tsring shop at the corner of Twelfth and
Clark streets. Some workmen were mixing
paint and an explosion occurred which ig-
nited the buildings on the north.
Tie fire has broken out at the corner OF
Michigan avenue and Congress. street.
Michigan Avenue Hotel is on fire. 1t is
probable that the Exposition building and
Art Gallery can be saved. On STATE street
the fire has passed jackson street, and Is
within one block Of the Palmer House.
on Wabash avenue. The Matteson House
is IN imminent danger.
One fireman has fallen through a roof and
been killed by the fall. A policeman had
leg broken while attempting to rescue q
boy. oOne engine, belonging to colored
men, has been burned. ,...,-
AT l2:l0P. NJ; the wind being westerly,
the fire was confined to very near Van
B1ren street on the north. The Gilbert
Il Sampson furniture warehouse, on
Wabash avenue, running through to State
street, was on fire but with fair prospect
ofasubduIng it, and the Gardner House,
before mentioned as being burned, shocld
have been the Michigan Avenue Hotel,
which is situated on the corner Of Congress
street.
The Gardner is safe, as also some half
dozen large stores on the east side Of
Wabash avenue and South Van Buren,
street. The building occupied By the
Shuremen & Hand Marble Company. cor
ner of Michigan avenue and Van Buren,
street, and occupied in the upper stories by
the art gallery, is intact, although the build
ings 20 the north and south OF 1t have sue
Gu IL bed 10 the flames.
Van Buren, street seems to be about the
hortherly line of the fire, although some
buildings were destroyed north of that,
there being only the lake to the east.
The fire appears now principally confined
to the Michigan Avenue Hstel, and when
that is finally burned down, there will be
little else but ruins to mark the course of
to-day's ire.
Another Account.
2:3O A. M.-The limits of the fire are as
follows: On Clark street, No 535, which is
about Twelfth street, on the south, aud
about Polk street, on the north. On Dearborn
street. the southern limit is near Twelfth
street. and the northern limit Polk street,
near Wabash avenue.
Harmon Court forms the southern bound
ary, the northern limit being between Jack
| son and Van Buren, streets. On State street
the southern limit is Harmon Court, the
line extending on the north nearly to jack
| son street. Third and Fourth avenues are
burned nearly the whole length:
! The fire burned q number OF housef on
Michigan avenue, but has not damaged
! that avenue to any great extent. Some
twenty blocks are burned. TIE loss 10 w
with accuracy. 1t viii not DO lsss than