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The excitement with regard to the Chicago fire increases intensely, as the full extent of the calamity becomes known Subscriptions will be opened for the relief of the sufferers. The banking house of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following eloquent and truthful description has been furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work throughout: — None but any eye-witness can form an idea of the fury and power of the fire, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHICAGO, October 8, 12.30. a.m.—The most terrible conflagration which has ever occurred in this city broke out about an hour and a half ago, and, having already swept over six entire blocks is still raging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 10 o'clock Sunday night, a small barn on Canalport Avenue, not far from Twelfth-street (west side), was discovered to be on fire. It was just such a little fire as has happened a thousand times before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, October 1.—The health of her Majesty causea great anxiety. The Prince of Wales and Mr. Gladstone have been summoned to Balmoral, where her Majesty is residing. She is suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN view of the terrible conflagration in Chicago, a short summary of great fires that have occurred in various parts of the world in years past, may not be uninteresting:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The suffering on the north side is heartrending— men, women, and children, 50,000 of them, huddled together like so many wild anima's, and in another place 17,000…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →CHICAGO, October 8, 12.30 a.m.—The most terible conflagration which has ever occurred in this city broke out about an hour and a half ago, and, having already swept over six entire blocks is still raging…
Continued on Trove, page 1206 →The excitement with regard to the Chicago fire increases intensely, as the full extent of the calamity becomes known Subscriptions will be opened for the relief of the sufferers. The banking nouse of…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THE following eloquent and truthful description has been furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work throughout:— None but an eye-witness can form an idea of the fury and power of the fire, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →YESTERDAY forenoon the City Coroner commenced, at the Madeira Inn, Devonshire-street, arr inquest touching the origin of a fire which destroyed portion of a woathorboard building, the property of Mr. William Hayos, and situated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY forenoon, the City Coronor resumed, at the Southern Cross Hotel, Devonshire-street, an inquest into the origin of a fire in Paradise-palace, off Holt-street, Strawberry Hill. Mr. Barker, as on the former day, appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT half-past 9 o'clock yesterday forenoon, the City Coroner, Mr. Henry Shiell, held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Devonshire-street, Strawberry Hills, a resumed inquest touching the origin of the late fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABOUT 2 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd November constables Kerr and Kelly, of the Cumberland-street Police Station, were on duty in Pitt-street, near the corner of Hunter-street, when they perceived a smell—as if…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The great fire at Chicago began in a stable on Sunday night, October 8. A boy took a kerosene lamp into the stable in order to milk a cow. The animal kicked the lamp over, which set fire to the place. The burning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the ship St. John, from San Francisco, we have California papers to the 18th October. They contain most distressing accounts of the continued progress of the great fires in several of the Westers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM San Francisco we have files to the 20th October, from which we gather the following American news:— TREMENDOUS FIRES IN MICHIGAN.—The Saginaw, Michigan, papers are full of accounts of fires in that double…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most thrilling and paintul little incidents of the confiagration on the North Side was mentioned to us this morning. A couple of families, the heads of which were teamsters, living near the lake shore, not far from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GREEN BAY, October 11th.—Charles Woodward, just in from Peshtigo, says that 500 persons perished in the flames. Newspaper reports cannot exaggerate the fearful loss of life on the east shore. Green Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Californian papers received yesterday bring us, with further details of the terrible fire at Chicago, Illinois, news of another, and, as far as the general description given in the…
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