The doomed city! Chicago during an appalling ordeal! : the fire demon's carnival : the conflagrations in the West, South and North divisions : graphic sketches from the scene of the disaster . irway wasapparently cut off, and he looked despairingly dovm the fifty feet between him and theground. The crowd grew almost frantic at the sight, for it was only a choice of deathbefore him. Senseless cries of Jump! Jump! went up from the crowd—senseless butfull of sympathy, for the sight was absolutely agonizing. Then, for a minute or two hedisappeared, perhaps even less, but it seemed so long a time t
The doomed city! Chicago during an appalling ordeal! : the fire demon's carnival : the conflagrations in the West, South and North divisions : graphic sketches from the scene of the disaster . irway wasapparently cut off, and he looked despairingly dovm the fifty feet between him and theground. The crowd grew almost frantic at the sight, for it was only a choice of deathbefore him. Senseless cries of Jump! Jump! went up from the crowd—senseless butfull of sympathy, for the sight was absolutely agonizing. Then, for a minute or two hedisappeared, perhaps even less, but it seemed so long a time the supposition was that hehad fallen, suflbcated with smoke and heat. But no, he appears again. First, he throwsa bed, then some bed clothes, apparently ; why, probably even he does not know. Againhe looks down the dead, sheer waU of fifty feet below him. He hesitates, and well hemay, as he looks behind him. Then he mounts to the window sill. His whole formappears, naked to the shirt, and his white limbs gleam against the dark wall in the brighlight as he swings himself below the window. The only remaining building in the whole of the businessportion of the City North and South Which is occupied as follows : By Z. M. HALL, WHOLE-SALE GROCER, 259 & 261 Randolph a full stockof TEAS <fe GROCERIES, and Manufacturers of ROASTEDAND GROUND COFFEES AND SPICES. JOHN DAVISON, PI^OPRIETOR OF THE
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