. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ^oH ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. and fifty persons died from various causesdurin^^ the conflagration, and ninety-eightthousand persons were rendered homeless byit. Theentirc business quarter was actual loss will never be known. As faras it can be ascertained, it was about onehundred and ninety-six millions of dollars. Almost simultaneous with this disasterextensive forest fires swept over the woods of | sities of life was liberally exten
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ^oH ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. and fifty persons died from various causesdurin^^ the conflagration, and ninety-eightthousand persons were rendered homeless byit. Theentirc business quarter was actual loss will never be known. As faras it can be ascertained, it was about onehundred and ninety-six millions of dollars. Almost simultaneous with this disasterextensive forest fires swept over the woods of | sities of life was liberally extended to thesufferers in Chicago and the other afflictedcommunities. The telegraph flashed thenews across the Atlantic, and in an almostincredibly short time liberal contributions inmoney came pouring in from England andcontinental Europe, and even from the far-ofT,cities of India. On the twenty-ninth of May, 1872, Con-. THE BURNING OF CHICAGO. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. Wholevillages were destroyed by the flames, whichtraveled with such speed that it was oftenimpossible for the fleetest horse to escapefrom them. Over fifteen hundred peopleperished in Wisconsin alone. These terriblecalamities aroused the gen-erous sympathy of the rest of the country,and aid in money, clothing, and the neces- gress passed an act removing the disabilitiesimposed upon the Southern people by thethird section of the fourteenth amendment tothe constitution. From this general exemptionwere excepted all persons who had beenmembers of Congress, officers of the armyor navy, heads of departments under thegeneral government, or ministers to foreigncountries, who had resigned their positions ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. 80.) and joined the secession movement. By thisact at least one hundred and fifty thousandmen of capacity and experience, whoseservices were greatly needed by the Scuth,were restored to political lif
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