New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-21

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The los. Of the Manufacturers Insurance Company
BOSTON will not amount TO than fortyhve thousand
dollars that OF the Providence Washington Co OF rfo'
idence i. no, more than fifteen thousand dollars
some of the Insurance Offices raised their rates on
Saturday 100 per cent and others - Oomm'''ee
from the various Companies meet today TO decide upon
| the new rates.
Free storage i offered =, a Peck slip and 30 Liberty
The estimated loss Of Dry Goods is s2SoovoV' lea
in one s,ore) 5000 600 Looking Glass Plates >.4OOoo
Cotton y To $4,000 bales.
The door. Of Livingston 4 Wells and Harnden 4 Co
were forced open ou,nardly by the explosion. The
doors of several of the Banks also forced open
Livingston & Wells. Harnden 4 Co. aud Adams s Co
gave the work Of their wagons horses and men, from
the beginning until the close of the FIRE
The boarders at Bunker deserve great credit They
emp,;ed the Fountain in the Mansion House yard Of
water which was carried up to the roofs and no couo'
prevented the IRE from going through to Greenwich
street They worked like beavers.
No 46 Beaver street (where the ire was stayed the
efficacy of iron roofs and hreproof shutters was glorious
~ tested Nowhere in its did the conhagrshon
rag more lrieusy than here-and this was the crisis
the turning point-in the cad business Of the day The
block of stores built by Mr. Titus noby withsiood the
encroschmens Of the foe and baied it, most nrous a.
santa A. soon as the flames had burnt fairly up 70 these
buildings they made tremendous attack and then TEL
of Al once-the wind uled, and the dire contest was
over although destruction and devastation Still fingered
in different parts OF the field
A swift was badly burned while helping to move
some goods in Broad-street Also German, and snoth
er female received injuries from being thrown across
q room by the conclusion caused by the grand cNplo
sion These are all at the Hospital
Hugh Kelley belonging to No. -. was considerably
injured in the head and breast by the eSposon-we be-
ieve not dangerously
| Timothy Waters same company slightly injured, IN
cutting the door and thus letting out some twenty or
twenty-five OF his companions, who otherwise would
inevitably have persisted
Three tire Companies from Newark came ever about
half past ten O'Clock and did gallant service throughout
the war They are Nos 3 I and ; Thanks, gallant
/ hearts
Fire Engine Companies from Brooklyn. Newark and
Williamsburg repaired to the City with their Engines
during the morning, and rendered valuable aid To our
citizen hremen
chest OF drawers thrown from house IN Greenwich
street Just above Morris fell upon tina head OF lad
crushing his head. but not killing him quite.
In obedience 10 the Proclamation OF the Mayor, the
Troops were ordered ont TO protect the property OF the
Governors Island and rendered very
efficient aid to the Policemen in establishing the barriers
(Which were remarkably well kept up) while The new
Policemen themselves deserve great praise Tor the
ehcsn manner in which they performed their difficult
duties.
| fireman went into Dutchmans on the corner OF
Pearl and Broad.streets and got some refreshment-
going and paying for It, and saying that the Com
pany would settle. The Dutchman ran alter him anc
struck him with knife or some other sharp Instrument,
LAYING his head open with horrible CASH Several Fire
men then got together entered the house and beat the
Dutchman severely who at length rescued by the
Policemen and completely Quilted the shop.
man was carried of by TWO hremen belonging to
No Is who had become deranged from his sister being
burnt to death and the loss of all his property We tried
every way 10 get names and more particulars Of this
shocking catastrophe but were totally unable.
The iron shutters of the lofty opposite Nos 10
and II south William all that saved the fire from
spreading in that direction. The paint on them was cor
rlpated and came OF in scales from the intensity OF the
/ heat.
Engine No was not at the great ire. She was broken
at the second FIRE in the evening No IA was there nrs
half sn hour before the bell struck.
About to S O'Clock the Empire Fire Company mad
been a, work from the commencement in of the
Cowdry a fireman. holding the pipe OF the hose Ia
one Of the buildings which reaches from New to Broad
sreet-ust this moment an explosion took place from
the fact OF quantity OF satpetre and powder being
stored in the warehouse In which Mr. G. was in, when
the whole building in the twinkling Of an eye as
level as the street, and Mr. c. from that moment
missed and has since been heard Of There j.
scarcely any doubt but he persisted in the explosion
. A Mr. Cox and Mr.. Edward Johnson, who had beer
staying AZ the Waverey Hotel, dreadfuly msnged
trying escape with their clothes 10 the opposite side
aff ~ hey ad 81 ne
their things. and returned second time, when iney
were stopped by the flames the main stars and A.
chance Of escape for some moments appeared cut on
but few minutes Afterwards, by the assistance Of
ladder got down from the second story, but not until
they had been much burned and Mr. Johnsons shoulder
dreadfully mangled by the falling OF a beam
member Of the Southwark Fire Company was
blown at the time Of the explosion upward Of TWEEN y
yards down through ExchangePsce and others Of thu
same company were more or less injured.
In fact nearly all the Fire Department seem 10 have
suffered Between and o'clock TWO were
brought into X B. Days wine and -pr: warehouse
Of them a fireman. and the other who had beer
employed in the building Of house adjoining botf
of them had received contusions from the fan.
Of the house sd Joining the buildings At the
Markethed street the fireman has been taken TO TN
Hospital but the who was mason, has since died
and taken 20 his friends, who reside IN south Brook
Ign.
wthin-ihe space burnt over, was heartsickenng TIL
families Of least my houses on Broadway both SIDE
of Greenwich street on State Whitehall and PesI
streets and Battery Place had been turned into the
with then furniture hrOug Oh dread Of their houses bein
burned over their heads Broadway. that psrt wher
both sides burning is at least hundred and mn,
feet wide vet intense the heat IN the middle
the street that for hundred yards even the DARN
aremen could venture upon the burning pavement
The panic among the merchants on William rear
and the lower part OF Exchange Place, on the east sid
the coniagrstion, equally great and we suppos
that one hundred emptled OF tneir goods
prodgous expense and lose which not reached b.
the ore Vast amounts Of valuable goods were lost b.
being deuged with water.
burning Of spirits. OIL and every eonbust6ie matter
hat it Offensive 10 those approaching the Chy 10
{ manv mler before they reached the IRE.
The terror and alarm vas so gres, that the boarders an
many OF the females halt dressed fed in fright from Ii
Waserley House the moment that pile Of buildings
FIRE MANY Of them sought shelter in the City and Crc
d, ton Hotels and other places AL escaped in safety
some however, lost their luggage.
Dr. Burkeews drug store IN Broadway entirely COZ
sumed with It's contents. We regret TO learn that he
greatly injured BY the explosion HIS was broke
and his head bruised Il Is feared ais wounds viii prov
fatal. He mas been removed to his house. No. Clinton
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