The "fire Fiend" Loose

The " Fire Piend" has held high carniyal during the laat week, and houses and stores and faetones and villages and cities have fed his greedy maw. We note a fuw of tho most dostructive. AJÍ 011, FIRE. Friduy veiling last a laige oil tank in tVie Erio Üil Yard, at Weehawken, was strnck by lightning. The burning oil spread the llames rapidly and even the Ihulson llivor was ablazo. Fifteen tanks were burned, containing 75,000 barrels of oil, also the piers, trestle wolk, and cooper shop. The road bed in the yard was ruined, and four cars, sixty-five cords of tunnago wood, and a wood bargo burnerl. A timcly rain aided in preventing tlie spread of tho ftre outside of the yard, and the shipping at the wharf was towed to a place of safety. Total loss $7.30,000, with insurance not to exoeod $100,000. OSHKOSH (WIS.) IN A BLAZE. Ob the evening of the Mth inst. the fieud liad " fun with the boys" at Oshkosb, Wis., clearing a Rpaoo about two milos long and half a mile wide. About thirty business housos were burued and three hundred dwellings, many of them costly. The loss is variously estimated at from $7.30,000 to fl,$QQ,OOO. Iusurance not statcd. IOWA lALLS, locatod on the Illinois Central ltailroad, 141 miles west of Dubuque, boasts of a $130,000 fire, with a very light insuranoe. It occurred on the afternoon of the 14th, destroying H building, - dwollings, stores, hotels, ships, &c" BIG RAPADS, MICK is satisfied with putting in a claim for a $20,000 fire, which oacurred on Sunday morning last, the 12th inst. CHICAGO TAKES THE TRIZE. Doomed Chicago has again been pounced upon by the destroying angelThe fire broke out at half past four o'clock r. m., Tuesday eveuing last (the 14th) in a sraall frame building on Polk street, in an old rag shop, spread rapidly, and cleanod off twenty blocks. At about 3 o'clock A. m. it was under control. A large share of the burued district was Chicago's shabbicst and vilest quarters, though a fow fine dwellings were burned on Wabash avenue, soveral churches, one fine publio school building, tho Adelphi Theater, etc. Tho northeru lire line roached is the southern boundary of the great fire of October, 1871, and new Chicago was aved. Tho postoffice (an. old church) was burned, hut tho mails all sa ved. Those familiar with Chicago will fix the burned district by the following description : On South Clark street, No. 533, about Twelfth street ; on North Clark, about Polk on Dearborn ; south limit, uear Twelfth street ; north limit, Polk street and Wabash avenue ; aouthern limit, Harmon Court ; northern limit, betweon Jaokson and Van Buren on State street ; southern limit, Harmon Court ; northern limit, nearly to Jackson. Third and Fourth avenues are burnt nearly their whole length. The fire burned a nunibor of housea on Michigan avenue, but has not damaged that street to any great amount. The following are some of the largest losses : Jewish Synagogue, $30,000. Quinn's Chapel, $15,000. Adelphic Theater, $75,000. St. Louis Hotel and furniture, uuu. Postoffice, $50,000. First Baptist Church, $100,000. Church of the Messiah, f25,000. Olivet Baptist Church (colored), $40,000. The total loss is estimated at 4,000,000, with insurance amounting to about $2,500,000. The companies will all pay their losses, and, in the end, Chicago will be greatly benefited by this fire. - Another flre oocurred in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon : in the northern part of the oity on Chicago and Milwaukee avenues, sweeping fifteen or twenty buildings. Loes about $60,000, with not more than one-fifth covered by insurance.