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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT
LIVERPOOL.
On Saturday forenoon, about half-past eleven o'clock,
a fire broke out in the cotton warehouse of Mr. Maxwell,
merchant, of this town, and we regret to say that in
less than two hours, so rapid was the progress of the
Elapses, that the entire building, together with its con•
tents, which consisted of about 800 bales of cotton, was
destroyed. The building is situated in Henry-street, and
forms one of a number of warehouses for the stowage of
cotton and other produce. At the time the fire broke
out several persons were in the warehouse, engaged in
sorting cotton ; and perceiving a strong sulphurous
smell, they concluded that something was on fire. In a
few moments afterwards, and before the men had an op
portunity of ascertaining from what part the fire pro-
ceeded, a dense volume of smoke suddenly burst out in
different parts of the warehouse, and in a few minutes
the entire building was enveloped in flames, which raged
with terrific fury, threatening almost instant destruction
to the premises and contents. The fire-engines were
quickly on the spot, but the conflagration had already
attained such a height that to save the warehouse seemed
perfectly hopeless, and Mr. Maxwell, inspector of sal-
vage, and Mr. Hewit, superintendent of the fire-brigade,
consequently directed the exertions of the firemen to
the work of saving the adjacent premises, which imme-
diately join the warehouse. These latter premises form
the back part of Duke-street, one of the principal streets
in the town, and as the north wall of the warehouse
joined :the back part of several of these houses fears
were entertained for the safety of the latter. The hose
was therefore conveyed through the front of these houses
in order to prevent the conflagratiou communicating with
them. Fortunately by this means the houses in question
were entirely saved, and the fire was confined to the
warehouse itself. In about an hoar after the flames first
broke out the roof of the warehouse fell in, and the
entire premises were a heap of ruins, nothing but the
bare walls remaining, which are said to be in a very
dangerous state, and the probability is that
it will be considered necessary to take them
down. We seldom remember to have seen a
fire in this town where the work of destruction
was so rapid or fierce. The flames, indeed, raged with
terrific violence. So powerful were they that the houses
on the opposite side of the street wore much scorched
with the heat conveyed, and we regret to say that during
the progress of the fire a stone window sill attached to a
window opposite cracked, and a heavy portion of it fell
upon the head of a poor man who was
passing at the
moment, which knocked him down aryl dreadfully frac
tared his skull. He was at once picked up and taken to
the Southern Hospital in a state of insensibility, where
he died in the course of the afternoon. The warehouse
was full of cotton, the greater part of which was alto-
eether ennsnm.,l •vs- tin., that the,

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Liie warehouse was insured or nut. The nature u the
origin of the fire has not been ascertained, but it is
rumoured that it was the work of an incendiary, and that
a boy was seen to throw a rocket amongst the cotto'i a
few minutes before the flames broke out, and imme-
diately afterwards ran away.