Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Porter Palmer's Block; Field and Leiter's Stores, 1871. Engraving from a photograph. 'The total amount of losses to the insurance companies was reckoned at sixty million quantity of grain burnt was 1,600,000 bushels, leaving 5,000,000 bushels, in eleven warehouses, still intact. Half the stocks of pork and flour were destroyed, and a large quantity of lumber, coal, leather, groceries, and clothing stuffs. It is estimated that "the city has suffered a loss altogether of not less than 20 per cent, or more than 25 per cent, on her total assets,
Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Porter Palmer's Block; Field and Leiter's Stores, 1871. Engraving from a photograph. 'The total amount of losses to the insurance companies was reckoned at sixty million quantity of grain burnt was 1,600,000 bushels, leaving 5,000,000 bushels, in eleven warehouses, still intact. Half the stocks of pork and flour were destroyed, and a large quantity of lumber, coal, leather, groceries, and clothing stuffs. It is estimated that "the city has suffered a loss altogether of not less than 20 per cent, or more than 25 per cent, on her total assets, real and personal".' From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
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