Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-04-26
From the pttsborE Gazette of Friday the
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AN AWFUL CONGhATtoN.
Ptfrsbutg re- Aufvs 1--WE nr down Il
our dRsk With a cad heart L. record The mug
iaatfal calamity which ever bstall any cha
The pizs Of Filtebutg While We now write
an awful fife IL now raging, consuming thf
taifest portion If eur tiiy, aud TO human
being can tell where It will Rtay ito ravaa
yes, II has naw been burning for stz hours.
Apd, amidst The confusion which retrtis It tBa,
not he expected we ahall give anything like
q particular statement Of a calamity 60 ex-
taHetya aud involving suth fearful ruin.
What general particulars wo can give We
Jay hnfpfs our readers,
The fro broke out about IL o'nlaeh on
Thursday in an old frame shed On tba east
aide Of Ferry street, used ia a nlnake huupe.
Immediately surrounded On two aides with
old frame buildings, The woathsr was o.
trcbelg dry, the wind blowing almost q gale
from the wnst,
The houaee adjoining, Oh Second street.
took IRE immediately, The engines at this
ttmo began 10 play, and, had there been a
Huticienty Of water, would have subdued tic
fire, but, FEM want Of water, and the high
wind, the fire extends acroRa Sc end atrset
to the Globe Cotton Factory, which, together
with the dwelling adjoining, was consumed.
The Third Presbyterian church wha on Dire,
but was saved with great e~yefttoa. Tile FIRE
also, about the same time, extended across
Ferry street, to the weat eide, whore ii cou@
nomod some six or eight dwellings, when II
was stopped in that direction, the wind being
favorable,
Bat it was east Of the Ferry street whore
the FIRE ragged with most fury, Ii immediate.
1V AWFwA]IJ fREgNN1m 7H.rtag .tz..t --=-s-
avery house on both sides Of Second street
aud the whole square bounded BY Maker, Fer.
~, Second aud Front streets, except one build.
ing, the ware house Of the cation factory.
In tho square bounded hy Market, Ferry. Sc.
ceud and Third streets, every building was
destroyed except the Third Church, and
Johnson Sc. Stockton's printing Office, and The
American efiee, The square bounded by
Market, ferry, and Water street was saved
with but little injury.
The fire crossed Market NJ Front street,
and then began TO age with awful fury. This
was about , o'clock, r, IT., and the wind had
Increased 10 a perfect gale, The fire abso-
luteiy appeared to dance from ront to rooE and
IN en- incredible short space of time the three
immense squares, composed mostly Of ware
houses, bounded by Market and Wood stee,s, |
and extending from third to the river, were i (
sea Of flame,
The heat hg this tims was tremendausl-
Wood street formed no barrier atsll. The
flames went kissing across, as ii eager for
their prey. They also crossed third street,
below tho new post Office, and went rushing
up Wood street, across fourth, and Wood
stree, was a sea Of FIRE from the river TO Dia.
mond alley
But this was not all. The fire had become
anEo,ernahle. The arm Of man was impo
tent Even tile goels removed 70 the streets
Tor safety were seized upon and destroyed
On, on, marched the raging element. A sea
Il danes rolls on from Wood street 70 Smith.
isld. The Monongahela House, that noblest
Il modern hotela, is surrounded with flames
/ takes Ere Still the ruin rolls oH-crcss.
no Smithfeld street aud Grant street, and
,veepiap Sco'ch Hi entirely. Even the
anal does not stop il, The Gass works take
ire, and diractl all KensinEton Is IN flames,
ma TIE fire rolls on. and is only stopped in
hat direction about one mile from where it
commenced, from the want Of food To feed its
gracious nav.
Ia the meantime the M~onongahela Bridge j
~ taken Ere, and is entirely consumed, !
-ba PftikbHgg Bank, supposed 10 be fire.
-,ef extending from third 10 fourth streets, I
4. Bames. The Mayors Office is also on
ma The new Post-0dice is in great dan t
TWENTY SQUARES are entirely des-
,yad. and several paris OF squareF, besides 7
! ~ pipe-town, aud the buildings around '
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