The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-06-01

z1iv Experience OF q Chicago Man at tho


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Justice John X. Prindiville had
the experience Of being carried
through the city on q mattress, as 2:
the time of the fire he was unable
to walk. The Prindiville residence
stood, in the days before the fire, at
the intersection of Chicago avenue
and State street. 1t was spacious
house, in the center Of u large yard,
and was in what was then the most
fashionable residence district of Chi
cago. A fall in gymnasium some
three weeks before the fire had left
Justice Prindivillo Il cripple for the
tlmo being, and he was confined to
his bed.
Late Sunday night Il friend of
the family came to tho house" said
the justice, 'and called my father to
one side, telling him that tho city
was burning up. My six brothers
told me as soon as they were dressed
not to worry, as there wero enough
OF them to care for me. assured
them was not fretting, and while
they mado preparations to movo me
to place Of safety /, from my sick
room window, could see the reflec-
ton OF the fire, then just beginning
to get under way OH tho South Side.
Father sent one of the boys to
Wright's livery barn, at State and
Kinzie streets, where our horses
were kept, to get them and the car
riages, which he intended to use in
moving my mother, who was also
i'll, and myself Us well as what prop.
erty he could save.
1T SO happened, continued jug
tice Prindiville, that Wright g barn
was the first building to burn OH the
North Side. When it was learned
by the othel boys that our horses
wore gone, one of them went out
and in some manner got possession
of an old express wagon. l don't
know how he did it, but hnve al
ways thought he must have turned
burglar for the noncc, as vehicles Of
all descriptions were then ut pre-
MUM. They started to carry mo
out of the house OH mattress. The
front door was too narrow, and they
had to improvise stretchcr from u
sheet. l remember that it was Just
at daylight Monday morning, and 1
was calmly smoking my pipe This
annoyed father, who told me to stop
smoking, for fear would set the
house on fire. Four hours afterward
the whole building was Il slnoltlering
mass of rubbish.
"Three Of the brothers pulled the
wagon, for want OF 10 horse, and I
was taken to Elm and Dearborn
streets. There they left me, while
they hurried back to save as much
property as they could. For three
hours tossed about in the bottom
of that wagon, unable to rise, while
steady stream of excited and iii
many cases frantic people poured
past me, seeking shelter in Lincoln
park. Many Of them put things into
the wagon and asked me to watch
them. One man had three dishpans,
and another some valuable oil paint
ings. a woman ran by, 1 distinctly
remnmber, with IL big billy goat
clasped in her arms, and little girl
left cat in my charge. All the
property threw out of the Wagon.
but I kept the cat.
Somewhere ono of the boys hired
"a truck with ii team, got my m other
and came where was and took us
to st. Joseph's hospital. I'VE were
left there, and the hcys and father
hurried bac.; 10 cave all they could
from the house. They took the fam
lily sjiverware and other valuables
to the beach ut Lincoln park and
buried them in the sand. AS far as
we have been able to learn up to the
present time, the property il still in
the sand
Late Monday night it was feared
OH ,lll sides that the fire would come
sss far north as tine hospital. The
scene i'll the institution when the
sick and injured learned of the new
fear / will never forget. Mother
and were not worried, for we knew
father and the boys would come for
us, but the friendless and poor Dn-
tients were ina frenzy of fear, many
of them giving up to despair. Pray
ers and curses We're mingled, and
more than oii;; unfortunate, unable
to help himself, tried to crawl away.
Father did come for US, and we
were taken to the home Of friends
on Warren avenue, out of the 1,utll
of the fire. Tho hospital was not
burned. but the excitement there /
will always remember. Chicago
News.
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