The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-29 00:00:00

THE FIRE AT ST. KATHERINE

The loss occasioned by this fire, the first of any
extent that has occurred in the Metropolitan Docks
s nee their construction, is much greater than was
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water, of which more than twelve tons a
minute
was poured on the building by the steam floa
alone. The warehouse, which occupied the whole
length of the Eas•-qu,y, was eight stories high,
each story being separated into Vire')
party walls of great thickness, although there was
a common'cation between the divisions on each
floar. It was in the centre division of the top story
4ivi.ions by
that the fire commenced. The goods deposited in
this and the other upper stories consisted princ!-
' pally of tobacco, rice, sugar in cases (Mauritius),
glut t-percha, hemp and flax. As Eoca as the
ste m floats began to play the fire on the top
floor was observe to slacken, while its fury on the
floor beneath (the 7th) was unabated. In order
to prevent the flames reaching the lower floors, the
firemen who were stationed on the fifth resolved
to flood that story, and accordingly dammed up the
doorways with bales of tobacco and other goods.
In this way the water on that floor speedily became
between two and three feet deep. Die damage
done by this and the consequent partial flooding of
the lower floors was six or seven times as great as
that immediately effected by the fire. However,
there can be no doubt that but for some such mea-
sure being lake!, the damage would have been still
greater. No injury was dune to any of the ship-
ping. Time large vessels, which were moored
alongside the quay—one of them being the Lord
Ashley, screw steamer, fitting out for New Zealand
—were hauled off into the middle of the basin as
soon as the fire began.
The following is Mr. Braidwood's official report
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