Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-06-09

valuable properly in the shape of books, manu-
scripts, music, &c.
Many of the performers are also severe To-
sers, particularly Miss Cushman, who lost a
large part of her valuable wardrobe. Messrs.
Shaw and Howard also lost all their stage or
naments and dresses
The walls of the building were SO scandal
ously weak, that the lives of the firemen were
considered in danger from the first breaking out
of the fire.
Mr.. John T. Rollins, one of the most intelli-
gent engineers of the fire department, states
that he lives close by the theatre, and was on
the spot in very few minutes--say, ive--that
saw no fire except on the stage and scenery,
which was then blazing; there was then no fire
in front of the proscenium and it is his opinion
that the fire was placed on the stage or near
the scenes, in less than half an hour from the
time he first saw it. Such is the general opin-
ion; because fire does not shoulder long in the
neighborhood of theatrical scenery before 1t
runs like lighted train Of gurpowder.
The Chief Engineer says that before the
fire burst through the box doors, and within fl-
teen minutes of its discovery, he saw it break
ing through at the back of the theatre. He
warned all the people living in the rear to clear
out, because in less than five minutes after the
fire broke out at the rear he Sa,o the mtSera6ty
fimsy ,uaH cracking and yielding in eUery part
unable to bear the ,reigM of the roof And be-
fore the inmates of the house Of ill-fame in the
rear, kept by Julia Brown, had time 10 make
their escape, the wall gave way, fell on Julia
Browns house, crushed the back part, killed one
young and beautiful girl, aged l6, named Mar
garet Yager, who came from Philadelphia last
Tuesday.
The rear wall and the side wall on Frank
lin ST. both gave way in so short time after
the fire began, that it was by the mercy of
Providence alone that numbers were not crush
ed to death in the adjoining houses. The NOR
tar all from the bricks, and they looked as clean
almost as when new; and the whole building
was down to the ground in less than one hour,
except part of the front wall and the side wall
on Leonard street. But these bulged out so
much and looked so slim and CHASTITY, that the
engineers were preparing to pull them down at
l l o'clock, in order to save the lives of the
passers by.
The property was owned we understand in
this way
Ground owned by Mr. Aymar.
Mr.. Moran holds mortgage of $4,000 on
the building.
STOCKHOLDERS.
George L. Pride, shares
John l.. Graham,
W. l.. Pearsal,
T. M. Clauson, 3
Moody and Campbell, shares TO the
amount of their debt Of $4,000
Count Foster, for private box, 500
George Hanford, of Albany, $4,000
Mr. Black the builder, $4,000
Charles Del Vecchio, ! share
Mary Kingston,
The young girl who was killed presented
sad spectacle. She was lying on the floor of
the back attic, the roof of which was all gone,
and the whole open to the light of day. Sur
rounded by bricks and mortar, and pieces Of
burnt timber, there lay that young and recently
innocent GIRL with nothing around her small
limbs but her night dress, her side crushed in
near her heart, her mild blue eyes, open in
death, apparently gazing on the blue vault of
heaven above her, her very beautiful fair hair
streaming dishevelled down her neck and bo-
som, then white and cold as the Parian marble;
and yet from the smile playing around her
mouth, it seemed impossible to realize that she
was dead-so young---so fair---so guilty and so
early called. Around her stood one or two of
her former companions in shame, weeping Bit
terly, and the groupe was made up of the toll
worn smoke-covered fremen, who had extri-
Gated her mangled remains from the ruins a.
round her.
So much for building slight walls to thea
tre.
Twelue o'clock---Messrs. Burton and Russell
are at this time before the police magistrates,
making their statement of the calamity under
oath, and we expect that the incendiaries will
be traced and brought TO justice.
The French Protestant Episcopal Church
was injured in the roof by fire, and in the in
terror by water. The dwelling houses next it,
Nos. l03, los, and lO7, Franklin street, were
damaged by the fall of the wall of the theatre,
and the Dutch Reformed church in Franklin
street, adjoining No. LOT, took fire also in the
roof, but was soon extinguished. The African
church, on the corner of Leonard and Church
streets, opposite the theatre, caught also in the
roof but the fire was soon checked there, and