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Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sequently at many other places. The South Sidewas doomed. All hope of controlling the conflagration was nowabandoned. Water seemed only to increase the heat. Nothingbut lack of fuel could stop its fearful career. Men watched thedestruction of their property, unable to do the least for its pro-tection. Within three hours the flames had traversed the heart ofthe city, burning from the south branch of the river to the lake,and had leaped the river to the North Side. Buildings blown upon Congress Street prevented the further progress of the fire towardthe south. On the North Side, however, nothing could arrest theadvancing flames. I-ying in a favorable direction for the wind-driven fire, nothing but entire destruction could be expected. TheWaterworks were first assailed, cutting off the last ray of hope inthat direction; the business houses next suffered, and then thedwelling houses. From the river to Fullerton Avenue, beyondLincoln Park, and from the lake almost to Halsted Street, every-
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MAP OF BURNED DISTRICT. (19) 20 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. thing- was destroyed, with the single exception of the frame resi-dence of Mr. Mahlon Ogden, which, secluded among the trees ofits extensive grounds, was left uninjured. (This house stood untilrecently, when it was destroyed for the site of the NewberryLibrary.) Within twenty-four hours nearly 3i square miles of the denselypopulated city of Chicago had been swept away. The largewholesale and commission houses, which had attracted the tradeof the entire Northwest, the depots and rolling stock of the vari-ous railroads, the docks and shipping, everything which helped tomake Chicago the great commercial center of the West, lay inashes. The court house, postoffice, chamber of commerce, andmany substantial hotels and other buildings, all had yielded to thedestroyer. Brick buildings, stone buildings, buildings that wereconsidered fire-proof, succumbed to the intensity of the heat.Nearly eighteen thousand buildings were destroyed, the e

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