The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-24
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Great Conf1agration =!

Five hundred stores and buildings on
fire The city in CONSERVATION
Numerous lives lost Millions
upon Millions destroyed! Mill
tary called out! Mayors Procla,
nation!
The N. Y. Express Of Saturday, says
We record with pain and anguish the
details Of the terrible calamity that has
over,aken one of The richest and mosl
commercial parts oflhe ci'v. The fire
| is in the vicinity four Office, and we
were, at one time, in ar alarming proxim
,ty. None however, connected with our
Press, anticipated any such overwhelm-
ing conhagration, when the alarm bells
were first sounded at A NJ, and when
the STE luton of our Mornng paper was
put 10 Press. |: was not fel! to be so ter
rlbe, until the explosion took place.
AT about four o'clock, Clocker g. War
rtn's store in New street. in which was
stored very large quantity of sa',petre,
blew up with one OF the most tremendous
explosions ever heard or felt in the city,
That building itself was ofcoIr,e scalter>
I'd in fragments in an instant. and those
near it were luIe better off The explo,
sion created one ofthe most frightfuI spec
taclcs it was ever our misfortune 10 wit
ness, and the noise and uproar could only
be rqpaIIed by the explosion OF n maya
zine.
The Journal Of Commerce of Satur.
day, says AT a quarter to four this
morning We we're startled by the suc-
cessive reports Of tremendous explo-
sion, alarming the whole city, and a
rousing its sIumbering inhabitants to
consciousness Of the awful calamity
which has visited us in the shape of one
Of tho most destructive confa ra!iors
that, with the exception of the great fire
Of 1885, we ever witnessed. On re-
pairing 20 the scene of the disaster VIC
found the flames ascending from appar
emily hundred buildings at once, ex-
tending from Broadway down E change
Place to within a few doors Of William
street in one direction, and in another
from the public stores in Broad street,
near Wall, to Beaver.
On the East side Of Broadway, every
building from Exchange Place, com
mencing with the Waverly House, to
Market6eld street is, utterly consumed,
also three or four dwellings below Mar
ketfeld The house on the corner Of
Stone and Whitehall streets, and two
or three dwellings North of Stone street,
remain comparatively uninjured. Thence
to Broad street Stone street is the boun-
dairy. through Broad street from Stone
TO the public stores, within two or three
doors of Wall street, the buildings on
both sides are all destroyed. A line
drawn from the public stores to the Wa
verify House, is the limit on the North
west In Beaver street all the build
jngs on both sides are consumed. from
the Bowling Green to within five or six
doors Of William street On the West
side of Broadway the buildings are a II
destroyed, from Morris street 10 No. 10,
occupied by Mrs Barker as board
icg house - this last included.
The explosion was heard on boarl III"
steamboat Champion while seven miles
from the city, and startled the passengers
from Il cir berhs. 1t was also heard at
Hems,ead and at Newark. Cap. York,
OF the brig Milton. os well as the C'plain
and passengers Of the brig Savannah, off
the Highland, heard The repor, and iel' the
concusSI>n.
A'the tine the first explosion took place
a fteman belonging 10 Engine Go. %,
standing on the roof Of house next to
the explosion, was blown, as we are assn.
red by the Foreman oflhe Company, two
whole squares before touching the ground
He escaped with sp aimed ANGLE.
Among the goods destroyed by the ire
are $4,000 bales cotton, 10000 chests tea,
5000 1000 hhds anil 1900 boxes brown
sugar, 5000 5000 bags coffee, 600 pieces
carpcIing. 1000 bbls and 500 a 600 hhds
nolusses, 100000 lbs. fleece and pulled
wool, 900 bales Smyrna wool.
The dry goods jobters escaped almost
entirely. but the domestic goods factors
suffered severely poJ several large stocks