Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-04-14
Further particulars of the Fire in Aunusta


Lheone slliabons effects of hevle.ipe dream
az Gown to record he Most awful catastrophe which has
alen this cy-avps lost every thing bu, materials OF
oir oice we know how sympahize our fellow
many OF whom lrIetrevably rniued
ADout half past two O'Clock this afternoon fire was disco
yered IN the llh leIene fsreet known as MAiul
lcns oudas belonging 10 the State hank They So
completely evcioped flame before estrJis the
fash9 ecnen' could be procured, that exerIiom was
The wind very high, and had bc.n so all the d,v
o!ows from the i'll ite direoticn 5roadsee, III
'e soon found us way TO Broadseel, sweeping rapidly to the
east TIL ehTeopcd lame the nlaGc tie theatre and ali
the Intermediate houses and those tie neshloro, II was
stopped al Bgnons Brick bung No lj, OH Inc South side
OF broad street, tie Erge Bank Buildings Oh the North
side From the last TO the river both 0 Centre
leading 10 the bridge, every thing swept old Thc,re
o II rom this 10 Mis- Barctts corner, street dawn
10 Cen tolts the bank and Mrs Duga formerly
Stewards on Broadst inclusive the houses have escaped
TO beat Oft the blazing shingles. Below MIS- Dugas bet,s,
Reyhod and Broad-stIeets, Mr. NLeans e las, house on
SBoad-stree the only left except few sinai, buildings
From Bgrions brick building Broad street. and the opno
ste point on Greeiseet except DIR Anhony's, Joshua Dan
orhs, Mrs Cummings, Mrs Garvn' two or three build
n2s on the square that used belong Edmund Bugg on
Seen street every building swept TIL you reach foiIs
heads, which occupied the lower corner OF the ar. on ,h
stood few small buildings then only to the lower
end oft street Low down. small houses on the Dth
side OF Green consumed
The destructive element swept this part of our city, Lat
eSt me t OF IT, and embracing the greater part the active
retailing Grocery business) in less than hours like raging
hurricane, whoss dcoang disty.s by thousand
counter currents, breaking nnuneabe whirnds go
suddenly were hundreds sunk ruin whole seemed
Ike horrid drea whose terrors great to be lone
Goods and furniture carried into BroaaiTeet were DESTROYED
rapidly as II they had been the houses MOI
one dollar hundred escaped of the value of the articles
that the vy imagined they had saved from their ba
Zmg dwellings.
The Bridge has been saved with great dcuiye abu,-
men, was several times fire.
We cannot estimate the loss of property, amount al
distress which ii has enailed the city for long time To
Amidst heaviest misoIncs, Heaven tempes our SUI.
terngs with signal evidence, that while caasses il has
not entirely forgotten ungatef one of those
gaa nercics thai lives have been LOST au but few III
g accidents Occurred worth mentioning. We have been
informed Of singular infant of but tvn
a he'd hahn iiui,
over IT. when stranger gathering the bed threw the
cid together of the second story It's halEdjstraced
unnjGred.
Our negbors OF Hamburg exertet themselves so consnc
ousy IN our behalf, that they deserve public
treat quantities OF and bacon butthose
articles having ccn generally stored and sold that part of
the city which wasconsimeda about the Nearly 20 OO
bushels OF corn CONSUMED the OF hclons arc
house Very little cotton has been Loot.
Whsi heightened the public calamity every Baker in the
city mao establishment, ami we believe, all their stock of
materials Jurnt.
An the insurance Offices have lost something About
pcIty lost.
We President of the Augusta Insurance
ana Banking Company that all losses property
insured III that office will be promptly paid.
The number of front tenements acertane 10 have
been destroyed is lG5-besides out houses &c.
We understand the woods distance of thirty miIes are
stIeSed with burnt csOting, papers, &c.
The following printed Card was extensively distributed
among out citizens, early Saturday morning Many the
houSe!ess have accepted the liberal offer:
w Wit! feeling heart of sympathy, in words but il,
acts the undersigned the unfortunate sufferers Of A-
gsia by the FIRE, all the houses in Hamburg amount
either HENRY SfUJTZ -
JOHN B. CONVICTION,
ANDREW J. DILL