Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1845-07-24
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The loss of the Manufacturers In.
surnnce Company, Boston, will not
amount to more than ioity-iiye thousand
dollars that Of the Providence Wash
ing,on Co of Providence, IS not more
than fifteen thousand dollars.
Some of the insurance Offices raised
their rates on Saturday 100 per cent.
and others 80. 4 Commute from the
various Companies me eci to-day 10 decide
upon the new rates.
+ The estimated loss Of Dry Goods is.
$4,000, 900 Tea, in one stare 500,
900 Loohing-G lass Plates, $40, 900
Cotton, l. To 1900 bales.
The doors Of Livingston s. Wells auJ
ilarrdcn s, Co. were forced open oui-
wGrdg hl Tie explosion The doors of
several of the Banks were also forced
open. Livingston * Wells, llarnden
s: Co. and Adams * Co. gave the WORK
of their wagons, hoIscs and men, from
the bcginning until the close Of the fire
The boardcrs at Bunkrr's deserve
great credit They emplicd the Fcun-
tain il ,he Mansion House yard, OF
water, winch was carried up'o the roofs
aud no doubt prevented the fire from
2nHg through To Greenwich street.
They worked like beavers.
Al No 40 Beavrr-street, where The
fire was stayed) the efficacy Of iton
roofs and fr"-prooi shutters was glori-
ousIy tested. Nowhere in its course
did the contlagraIicn rage more furious
" than here aud tins was the crisis
he turning poiut-in HE sad business
oi the day. The block of stores boil,
by Mr.. Titus nobly wiihstood the en-
.roarhmcnts Of he foe aud bafiled It's
tnost iurio0s assaults AS soon as the
ilamcs had burnt fairly uplo these build
ingS, they made tremendous attack
aud then fell of at once-the wind luIl-
cd, and the dire contest was over, al
though destruction aud devastation still!
fingered IN different parts Of the field.
Three Fire Companies from Newark
came over about half past ten o'clock,
and did gallant service.
tre Engine Companies from Brook
iyn, Newark and Williamsburg, repair
ed 10 the City with their Eng ines during
thc morning.. and rendered valuable aid
to our citizen fIrmcn.
In obediehcc To the Proclamation o!
ho Mayor, the Troops were ordered out
to protect the property of the clllzcns,
and detachment Of United states
Troops from Govcrnor's Island were
sent over and rendered very efficient aid
10 tho Policemen IN establishing ,hr
barriers which were remarkably well
kept up while the new Policemen them
selves deserve great praise for the oill-
ritnt manncg IN which they performed
their difficult duties.
The IRON shutters Of the lofty stores
opposite Nos 8, 10 and - South VIII
liam wcr" all that saved the fire from
spreading IN that direction, The paint
on them wa. corrugated and came of
IN scales from the intensity OF lhe heat.
4 member of The Southwark EIrr
Company was blown, at thc time of the
explosion, upward Of twenty yards down
through ENchange-Placo, and others oi
III" same company were more or less
Injured.
7 In fact, nearly oil the Fire Depart
;arnt seem to have suffered. Between
, aud Is O'Clock two men were brought
into h. Il. Days wine aud spirit ware
house. oue Of them a fireman, and the
Other man Who had bcen employed IN
/ the building Of some house adjoining
both of them had received severe coHtu-
,ions from the falling oi the house ad-
looin2 the new buildings at the corner
iul Nakclft ld-slycoi {; the fireman has
yScn .aken 10 the Hospital but the man
vino wasa mason, has since dicd, and
was nhcn 10 his iicnds, who reside IN
South bgouiiyn
: The sight around rln en't,"nS "t I"t
/ lire, IA wci! as wijhia tie space burnt
Ioyc:, WAS Notwithstanding. The iGmi-
( iios of al least fly houses on iroadwny,
both sides oIGrr"nW,ch. street, ~ state.
+ W h,tcha'l, Stone aud poall ,trct;s, ara
/ Battery Place, had been turned into the
street with their lnrniDnrc, through dread
of theI. houses being burned over then
heads. R,ondway AT that pant where
both sides were burning, is at least one
hundred and Gliy feet wide, vet so ~
tens" WIS the heat ~ thc mddi" st iha
street, that cor hundred yards, not
even jhc daring Grcnrn could venture
ugun The buin,rg pavement.
( The panic aGoug the merchants on
NElllinn. ponrI, aud The lower part ol
GSchaue" Place, on the east side "i the
cnnillgrn'i1n, was equally great, aud
wo suyposr tha, one hundred stores
were cmpicd OF their goods, At rrodl-
cious cvpcnqc aud loss. hich were noi
rrarhrG by tic ire. Vast amounts of
cliuablc goods we're lost by being
dolucrd w'h water.
The stencil 81 tho cay was so great
rausrd by the burning of spirlls. cil,
and every romhusiillc matter. that ~.
vas offensive tn those approaching the
CIV Tor mauy ml.,a bciofr they Ica~h-