Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-07-04
A DOOMED CITY.

Woes come not single -handed. but in bat
t%allions. We are panied to announce the
city Of Quebec has again been visited by a
.confagration nearly or quite as disastrous
as that which laid IT waste a few days since.
The following from a Quebec slip, furnish
some of the particulars. A depnta,ion ar
rived IA, Montreal on Tuesday, with a peli.
ton to the Govcrnor. for an immediate con.
vocation of the Parliament to make provi-
sion f)r the suf1erers-whose number and
necessities are now entirely beyond the scope
of individual charities.
From The Quebec Gazette, June 30.
Another Third of Quebec Destroyed.
On Saturday evening, the 25th of June, Just one
month after the Great Fire of the 18th Nav, which
destroyed part of st. ValIer's ami ST. Johns Suburl S,
nearly all st. Roch and the west part of the Lower
Town 10 below Hope Gate, a fire commenced in ST.
John Suburbs near the place outside the Glacis, where
il stopped on the 2Sth May.
On this occasion the wind was as strong from the
northeast as II was to The west on the 2Sth May, and
the weather very dry. At both time the Fire began
to The windward Of the den.est part of the Suburb,
and was carried throushou, the thickest part of the
dwellings TO the leeward.
Inc nre mas destroyed nearly the whole OF ); John
and part of 81. Lewis Suburbs, from ST. John's Gate,
and the northwest angle of The walls, along the brow
Of The CO'eau Ste. Genrieoe, nearly to the Tower No.
4, and up to a couple Of Streets below ST. Lewis
Road. A number Of houses in the scattered streets
near Tower No. 3, have escaped, and n few near the
Cote dAbraham, and three or four in the vast extent
DESTROYED.
We have heard Of only one or two lives being lost.
Although it was in The night most of the inhabitants,
warned by the rapid progress Of the fire of the 2Sth oil
May, made Their escape in time, with a part OF then
mOval les.
Ii was only about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning
that the flames were exhausted towards the Tower
No. 4, by there being nothing more to burn, and BY
blowing up a number ofhouses north Of the st. Lew
is road.
A meeting of The General Committee Of Relief ap
pointed by the citizens after the fire Of the 2Srh May
met yesterday al one o'clock, and ordered distribu
tons of provisions, &c, 70 the destitute. All publ,
buildings were thrown open to the sufferers. and tent
were pitched west of the Citadel, but many person
remained with their effects along he walls Of the tow
and in the fields. Numbers were sent for by Their re
lations, friends, and acquaintances, in the surroundin
parishes.
The scene of desolaiion, distress and affection, an
the extent OF the calamity are nearly as great as afts
the former confiagratIon ; the value Of the propeft
DESTROYED probably greater. The population of S
John Suburbs was about ten thousand, and The POT
ulation Of ST. Rochs had mostly found refuge in S
John Suburbs.
Quebec is now reduced to the Upper Town with
The walls, and the Lower Town from The -. Charlie
below Hope Gale 10 Cap Blanc on the st. Lowrenc
the extent which il occupied, but then more sparsl
built, after the destruction of the Suburbs during n
seiee OF ITS. The remaining houses in the suburb
are about as many as they were half n century ago.
] We have seen Them spread out so as TO contain abo'
I twenty four thousand inhabitants, many OF theI
wealthy, most Of them proprletors OF Their dwelling
and living comfortably.