The New York herald., 1845-04-15

Wood, Water and Front to sni,hG.id embra-
wood iSs ssooOs Fqona ~ s0Isei s%issa
WOOD Third, Second to Smithfeld .....""..l
Wood Fourth, Thiri to smithfsld. ..:."-.
Wood, Fourth, Diamond Alley to Smithfeld
Water Smth6eld, Front to Grant st. Bake
Fir. sseona :: s%nssd sDiass to Grant street
second, smithAeld, Third to Grant street. ..l
Third, Fourth, smith6eld to Grant,. ..........
Fourth, smlthasld, Diamond alley to Grant,. /"
Fourth, Grant to Ross street.
Third and Grant to Ross street. .............
Second and Grant to Ross street.. .........l
Front, Second and Grant to Ross street. 49,.
Front to w ater. by Grant, to Ross street. ,l
nsksws are very heavy losers and the Hon
papers and hsrary-the latter Of great value.
From Pittsburg Advertiser, Aprlll]
We have traversed the burnt district this morning
throughout Its entire extent; the calamity is as wide.
spread and q, awful q can be conceived The district
Of South Ward. Of the most popuous in the cv is
with the exception Of or three houses
Ofstoxn .w frame buSipe.s ssfs. Isrt
escaped The principal part Of the Works are un.
Among the public buildings DESTROYED are the Pitts.
burgh Bank the P,ttsburg Insurance Oces the Nonon.
gahea House. the Americsn Hotel the bravo House, the
second associate Presbs teran Church. the First Baptist
Church. the Front street African Church. the University
Building, the Merchants Hotel, &C. Sc. Also the
Monongahela Bridge, was entirely destroyed.
The number Of houses destroyed is between one and
two thousand but 10 impossible to ascertain exactly
manufacturing estsblishnens are destroyed; among
them the Kensngton Rolling Mil very extensive esta
ol,shmsps M belonging to Mes,rs freeman Co The
second Front and Water streets, and Wood Marke,
houses, which full Of goods, groceries, and Pitts.
ourSh manuisctnres The loss is varossy estimated
ss 10 osS .rs 20 ssn ~ :. .ns be
some days to give all the particulars The only life lost
that we have heard ot was in Third street
[Frcm Pittsburg Letter. April lol
haa i'm hpen visifo al ncft
disastrous hrcs has ever been in the memory Of
record Itc0mmsncsd At abOu, half past II o'clock thi,
Ferry street this polnt The FIRE irst commence
and in few ninut the whole square adjoining was IN
consumed the whole square, viii .be spion
ihe Third Church and Johnston Stockton,s Book Bin
dsry. along side II then crossed Market street. burnn
the most valuable part Of the city was in asmes burprs
s far as the eye could reach up river and
IN breadth TO- Diamond Alleya In q imes at the sam
time. Oh 1t was q msgnl cent sight aud at H.
,ame time most dreadful: sxt,n5ed oIt pest the q -
Works taking in al the Iron Founories. GLASS Works
&c, on the River Road have -ndclvored 20 give you
plan Of which will give you better idea Of l, than Can
oy description. II up Wood street on our sdeof the
alley Of which Mr Loomis is the rst On the ohe
side i reached Diamond Alley, burning Arbu,hnot and
ths a1a out the whole square
pretty much alarmed, a. Hsrleys on Are several
times All the houses in Wood far up Virgin Alley
removed and all the blocks above ards Smi,h field
street. the We have yet been touched and are
comparatively safe, but will lose someh n the da
mage and loss Of goods &c All those in the CITY
Offices will lose everything all the Offices are brok en-
At the time am writing IN O'Clock r ny the fire il
pretty nearly spent and we think keep 1t in the
present bounds sparks are not carried other houses
aud break eut in new places
The loss cannot be less than from eight to twelve mil
iions-some compute it hgher-and It will be long
The following are some of the principal buildings Sc
burnt -
Franklin cotton factory, nothing savcd Fulton brass
foundry, do.
All the warehouses in Market street from the river to
rh,rd street. including Hope cotton factory office; VIM
Holmes & Co; Anthony Berlin; Vsnbenhorst 4 60;
Townsend Co; Curling, Robertson & Co; Geo Brabe;
Johnston stockton; Navigation, Fremens, and Penn
AlWatcr street. far up the eye can reach TO say
.sSpans Go; NJ. X. Rbey < Co; Poindcxter & co; NJ
60; Lewis Hutchinson Co; L. & j. d. Wick; Willia,n
Young; Church & Caro,hsrs; Burrrdge, Lyon shcrb &
Sc' house and bridge; o Blackburn Co
&c; bakswsps glass house, &, and others cannot
All Wood street from Water to Diamond Alov-.ay
ning Holiness scales; @. A Berry Noble; schoyer;
Black Mckee; Estep Morgan; Wood Edwsrds q Me
knight Hgbee; T. Hughes; James Anderson; shoe,.
Howard; r. E. Sellers; Gsoigs Cochran Ogden. Eng
iish Gallagher; 8. Cushber;w. McClntock Edmon.
son; Day; sawyer; Bissell & Co Hailmsn Jennings
60, .. McCIain; M H. Sweeney Co.; Dickey 4 Co.;
Merchants Hstei; Kramers. Murphy, wilson, senple
Barker; W. Wilson, Jr, & Co.; Henderson, Hoge Aus
Phillips Lynd Buckley; Lbbit & Jones Geo Albree;
vig; vi pougass; McBurdy Looms; McKan; w. Bell
sr I'm. n n Mccullough, Holdship & Brown;
w. n. nhi Kuhn Gfeves; Beab; 3lIesp pies: Stoner
Leonard; Howsrd & Co.; Clark and Cameron; Arbuih
not STUART ody Patterson Robt Patterson and all in
'ne DiocK mentioned as you win sec in the drawing.
~. From Pittsburg American, April ii
A.er crossing Wood street, IL extended to Diamond al
thus forming solid sheet Of fire from Diam ond alley
% the Monongahea river, raging like an ocean to the
easy. AFTER destroying every building and every thing
for there was no time to goods or unure-t cross
ed the Quiet canal TO Ppetown which 1t laid in ashes
yin tne exception OF Parry scoits foundry, Mr. Tom
nsons iron snip yard and the Gas worhshese are saw
ed ss we learn, but the large Rolling Mill Kensngton
All the noble boildngslon Market south Of Third 81 !;
all Wood st. south Of Diamond alev and eli the cty
est Of that Line IN ruins Tn includes the Merchants
Hotel, recently uinhhed and opened by b. Wcaver-a
groceries, drugs &C. Men had no time to remove their
goods, and knew not where to remove them large
amounts were carried TO the river and left the landing
whsro hey are now burning in masses-sugar, olssses
coffee, spices all in 50 many burning heops
One can scarcely form estimate OF the loss II
be short OF ten millions That Of Lyon, shcrb Co. is
probably, the heivest in buildings end property Capt