Returned and came back part of the way in a boat, then climbed sugar loaf mountain where we spent a pleasant hour gatrering mosses and wild flowers. Back and after tea walked to Quispamsis where we took the train for St. John. Country looking green and refreshing. After school the whole city almost burned. Wind blowing a gale.
Flames spread very rapidly presenting the most awful appearance.
Fire raged all night. School house burned. All south from King St. in ruins. Desolation and misery on every side. Chimneys and fragments of walls are the only things visible in the burnt district.