The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-14 00:00:00

The Great Fire in the Minories.

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goods depot of the London and North-Western
Railway Company in Ilaydon-square , Minories, is
being disclosed. In the immense warehouses which
have perished it is estimated that there were about
4,000 bales of wool, mostly, if not entirely, Aus-
tralian, and of the best quality, ',which at £25 a
bale would make the loss in that commodity alone
amount to £lOO,OOO, less the salvage, which it is
said will be considerable. There were in addition
about 350 casks of whisky destroyed, of the pro-
bable value in all of about £lO,OOO, and the build-
ings which have perished were worth about £20,000,
thus making the entire loss, roughly estimated,
amount to £130,000, exclusive of eight railway
trucks, which, with the goods with which they were
laden, have been burnt, and with their contents
would be worth about £lOO each. Yesterday again
the meu employed by the salvage corps, recently
established in the interest of the insurance offices,
were hard at work excavating from the ruins such
of the wool as was only partially injured more or
less in the conflagration, and of which there are
large quantities. Beyond question the fire origi-
nated in the top floor of a warehouse in the occu-
pation of Messrs. Gooch and Cousens, wool ware-
housemen, but how is still a mystery. This is the
time of year when the great wool sales take place,
and when the wool warehousemen and merchants em-
ploy an extra number of hands, and it is supposed
that the fire began in an act of carelessness by some
one animated by no sense of responsibility. About
11 o'clock in the evening, when the night watchman
of the railway company made his customary round
of the premises, all appeared safe, and about an
hour and a half afterwards- the fire made its ap-
pearance and spread with alarming rapidity. The
company have in the station an enormous hydrant
of 150-horse power, by which all the hydraulic
cranes are worked, and connected with it are hose
extending all over the premises to be used in case of
fire. A number of these were promptly brought
into action by the officers of the company before the
enginmand men of the Fire Brigade arrived, but
with little apparent effect, and 10 or 12 of the most
powerful of the steam engines belonging to the bri-
gade had played for hours upon the blazing mass
before the fire showed any signs of slackening in its
fury. From two o'clock in the morning, when the
roofs had fallen in, and the floorkehad given way olio
after another, the fire continued to rage like a fur-
nace 4in the great gulf it had made, and it was not
until six or seven hours had elapsed that it was
brought under control. Over the front entrance to
one of the large warehouses which were destroyed
was a clock. It perished in the flames, except the
dial, and yesterday the hands were seen pointing to
a quarter to two, thus indicating the exact time it
had ceased to go. With other parts of the building
the office of the manager (Mr. Cannon) has been
entirely destroyed, as have all his books and corre-
spondence, but the whole of the goods to which they
relate in the care of tile company preparatory to
shipment or delivery in the metropolis have been
saved. Of these some are Manchester commodities
and fabrics, worth £l,OOO a bale. During the fire
a ponderous castiron girder which fell with one of
the floors snapped.. in the middle, and lies in two
pieces embedded in the ruins. Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne, the carriers, had about 50 horses on the
premises at the time of the fire, 13 of which were
for some time in danger. Messrs. Pickford had an
equal if not greater number of horses there, but
they were housed at the opposite end of the station
to that at which the fire took place, and were never
in any jeopardy. Yesterday the upper part of a
wall in the ruins fell but without doing any harm.
All the remaining walls are more or less in a dan-
gerous condition. Some idea may be formed of the
bubiness done at this great entrepot of the London
and North-Western Railway Company when it is
Stated that about 800 tons of goods are being re-
ceived there and delivered daily, and the operations
go on much as usual notwithstanding the disaster.

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