American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-04-16

W. uiS luily COlIN inCtu tlldL lUOunn tIc
commercial prospects Of the city are terribly
shaken, yet it is not totally Frustrated, and in
due time will rise above it all. Our large Ma
nuiactories are untouched-the only mills of
any Importance which are burnt being the
Globe Factory, which is the smallest in the ci-
ty, the kensington Iron Works, and Blackwell
s. Pears Glass Works. Various other small
establishments were destroyed; but it is with
great satisfaction we announce that the great
! leading branches are comparatively untouched,
and that business, so far as they are concerned
VIII 60 on as usual
AS for our wholesale merchants in the Gro
Gerry, Quecnsware, and Dry Goods branches,
who were burnt out, u number of them will
commence forthwith. Some arc wholly ruin
ed, many much crippled, but we believe the
majority can go on as usual, and yesterday
they were busy getting places of business and
| Offices.
Ii is with heartfelt pleasure we observe the
iortltudc with which they bear their losses
There Is no repning-no despair-no sullen-
ness; bat calm, determined spirit which must
carry them up again. The effect will be TO set
us back fer moment, but we never had more
confidence in the strength aud spirit of our
merchants TO overcome il all IN time 1t must
not be supposed that all the business portions Of
the city are consumed. Most of the Dry Goods
Jobbers are untouched; so of the Hardware
/ Merchants, and number of the heavy houses
are out OF the limits Of the burnt district. And
1t fortunately happens, too, that large amount
OF groceries from the East, for the city, had not
arrived. We repeat, therefore, that, though
the city is terribly shaken. it is ncithcr ruined
nor totally prostrated.
The rapidty with which the fire spread was
most remarkable. The whole of South Ward.
containing from seven TO nine hundred houses
was consumed entirely III the space Of two
hours. From the time the fire reached this
| Ward, across Wood street, until it spread to
every part oft, covering about sixteen squares,
there was scarce an interval OF half an hour.
| The Monongahe!a bridge took fire at the
North end, next to Plttsburg, and the flames
ran roaring aud cracking through with railroad
speed, and from the time the fire commenced
until it wasiprostratc in the river, only ten min
utes elapsed!
Amidst all the distress, there were those
around who added to the calamity by stealing.
| Among others, the Rev. Geo. S. Holmes had
about $500 stolen, which he had gathered up,
by great economy, on Methodist preacher
salary. He also lost large number of valha-
bic manuscripts, the labor of twenty years.
To show the rapldity of the fire we may
iliSHtlch LIidl SSlititiiIdh Vi our
arrived at the American Hotel, about | o'clll
and leaving his trunk, walked out to see the
fire. which was then nearlya quarter of mile
off. In short time he returned and found the
hotel in flames. He lost his trunk with nearly
all his clothing and papers, and a considerable
sum Of money.
The Second, or South Ward The destruc-
ton in this ward, nearly the oldest part of the
| civ. and Ot the most Dnnplpuc pf bn fUo
wards, is complete and overwhelming. 1t is
left without inhabitants, only two or three
dwellings remaining. In the morning, and at
noon, the streets of this ward were thronged
with crowded and busy population, number
! ing some six thousand souls!-in the evening
not single inhabitant was left on its deserted
streets and squares, and ruin stalked supreme
Kenstngton, This f1ourishing adjunct of the
city is well nigh annihilated The course of the
fire was extraordinary. The last large building
in the city this side of it, was the large new
Steel Works of Messrs. Jones & Quigg, MOTTO
ed in another place. When the fire reached
this it dipped down steep bank into The Canal
and consumed the Lock tenders house, and
then rising, it went completely over a number
OF frame buildings on the opposite bank, ncu-
ding the workshops of MIR. Tomlinson the con-
tractor Of the Iron Steamship on the stocks,
Tarfy q SCOUTS fonndry, the Gas Works,
Messrs Phillips Glass House, and lighting on
the Glass Works of Messrs. Miller s Co. com
menced anew with the utmost fury. 1t took
every thing from thence up on that side of the
road. About half way up, it crossed the road
and made clean sweet of all between the hill
and the river to the utmost end of the town.
The greatest loss was in the Dallas Iron works.
With very few exceptions, all the inhabitants
were operatives IN, or dependent on, the Mills
and boundaries; and by this calamity, hundreds
of them are houseless and homeless,
The Pttsburg Spirit of the Age of Monday
states that about 5000 persons were thrown out
of house and home, and that not more than
three persons were killed. The amount of in
surancc out of the city is about $40 900 or S5o,-
600, Many of the merchants are already re-
sumng business, and the wharf has been clear
ed of the piles of goods. The Age also states
that about 100 dwellings and 262 stores offices,
Sc were entirely consumed
Mons SIGNAL FIRES. We are informed,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer, that signal fires