The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-28

which there is about 100000 insurance. A
dispatch from st. John says: Thousands of
people wander the streets, homeless and in
despair. The destruction of provisions Of all
kinds seems to point to famine, and relief must
come in speedily or many must perish from
want. Few saved even their Clothes
The Sunday-school Assembly to be held at
Lake Bluff camp-grounds, thirty miles north of
Chicago, July II to ~, promises to be one of
the most important and interesting gatherings
of Sunday-school workers held for many day.
Railroads will give reduced fares, and ample
provisions will be made to entertain, at small
expense, all those who may desire to attend.
Dispatches from st. Johns, N. B., furnish
the following additional particulars of the ter
| rible confagration in that city: The entire
business portion of the city is destroyed. Not
| leading establishment has escaped. All the
principal dry-goods stores. the leading grocers
| all ship brokers, commission merchants, all the
wholesale liquor dealers, -four, provisions, COAL
salt, lumber, tea. West-India goods, are utterly
wiped out. Forty-odd blocks or nearly 200
acres south of King street have not six build
ings remaining. Every street, square, and
alley is filed with furniture, and thousands of
people are without either food or shelter.
Thousands had to get away from
the lower part of the city by boats Of the
$40 acres in the city boundaries, 400 are burned
over and 20, 600 residents homeless. They have
crowded in elsewhere or are under tents. The
loss is still estimated at $4,000, 900. and the
insurance SO far as known is about $4,000, 900.
It is said that all the Offices will pay. Thenunl-
Der of dead is reported to be on the increase.
but the facts are not fully known. Mrs Crane
and the young ladies Of her school had to go to
sea in one of the International steamers to save
themselves. There were many heartrendine
scenes. A great quantity of goods saved
fell into the hands Of thieves. who eagerly
availed themselves Of every opportunity
4 that afforded to carry off what they
could lay their hands on. The following
newspaper Offices, with their plant and stock
were completely swept away: The Fireman.
Evening Globe Daily Telegraph Daily Neeos
Wctctn1an, and Religious I'ateZ&geracer. The
Globe, Telegraph, News, Inte7z;gencer ant
Waterman had job Offices attached. The
} churches burned are Trinity, st. Andrews, Ger
main Street Methodist, German Street Baptist
Christian, Duke Street st. James Church
Leinster Street Baptish, Centenary Methods
: Church, St. Phillip Carmarthen Street Mis-
sior (Methodist), Pitt Street Mission st. Da
\ vid's, Reformed Presbyterian, Sheffield Stree
) Migsion-House.
Montreal dispatch announces that the ofic
robbed of $50, 900 that had just been taken from
the bank to pay employees. .
The loss of life by the st. John On. B. J fire
l is believed, will reach nearly fifty. Over thirt
! bodies have been recovered, and nearly as man
persons are missing.
All the large cities Of the United States an
Canada have responded to the cry Of distres
that went out from the Inflated city Of st
D John, and substantial aid in the shape O
money, clothing and victuals is pouring int
the city from every quarter.
The officer commanding the United State
forces in Utah has been notified that, while th
War Department does not share in his appre
tensions of disturbances in that Territory, it
thought proper to provide against the posi-
Y bility of trouble by materially Strengthening
the garrisons already established. Troops WI
also be stationed at other points if it appears
: be necessary.
Robert Dale Owen, the eminent author an
D Spirituaist is dead.