Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-12
ANOTHER COMPENSATION ATT QUEBEC

Another dlsastrouslire occurred at the city Of
quebec IN Canada' q Saturday week, which APP
proaches In magnltudt and the amount Of property
destroyed even the grft fire Of the 28th 81. May.
i broke Out about o'clock AZ night in ST. Johns
suburbs and spread ypfh unrelenting fury until
O'Clock the nextmornrg, laying wGsfe IN It's course
some thirteen hundred di0elings, and turning into
the streets houseiess POI less It is supposed than
SIX thousand persons, including many Of the suf-
ferers by the first frf, who were second time
burnt out.
FROM THE QUEBEC GAZETTE.
On Saturday evening" thu 2sh June Just one month afer
the great fire Of the 18th Nay, which destroyed part Of St
Waller and St. John suburb nearly all St. Roch and the west
part Of the Lower town to bow Hope Gate fire commenced
in St. John suburbs the place outside the Gacis where
it stopped on the 2sth May
On this occasion the wind was strong from the northeast
to the west the 18TH May and the weather very
dry At both times the fire began to the windward Of the
densest part of the suburbs d carried throughout the
thickes part of the dwellings to the leeward
This fire has destroyed nearly the whole of St. John and
part of St. Lewis suburbs, from st. Johns Gate and the
northwest angle Of the walls along the brow of the Cofea
Ste Geepepe nearly to the Tower No. A. and up couple
Of streets below st. Lewis road number Of houses in the
scattered streets Tower No. have escaped and few
the este dAbham, and three four in the
tent destroyed
We have heard Of only one or two lives being lost AL
though was in the night most Of the inhabitants, warned
by the rapid progress Of the fire of the 18th May made their
escape In time with part Of their moveables
meeting of the General Committee of Relief appointed
by the citizens after the fire Of the 18th May met yesterday
at one o'clock and ordered dsrbons Of provisions &C.
the destitute All public buildings thrown open the
sufferers, and tents pitched of the CITADEL but many
persons remained with their effects along the walls of the
town and in the fields Numbers by their rela
TONS friends and acquaintance in the surrounding parishes
The Of desoaton, distress, and aiciion and the
extent Of the calamity nearly great after the former
confagaon the value Of the property DESTROYED probably
greater The population Of ST. John suburbs was about ten
thousand and the population of ST. Roch had mostly found
refuge in ST. John suburbs.
Quebec is reduced to the Upper Town within the
wallis the Lower Town, from the st. Charles below Hope
Gate to Cap Blanc the St Lawrence the extent which il
occupied, but then spasey built after the destruction
of the suburbs during the siege in l775 The remaining
houses In the suburbs about many they half
century We have them spread as to contain
twenty -four thousand inhabitants many Of them wealthy
most Of them propetos Of their dwellings, and living com
foably This the work of persevering industry and
general good conduct and it will be persevered in
There truth which the msortunes must have
strongly impressed the minds Of all is that every in
habtant has direct interest in the good and careful conduct
of every individual who lives in or frequens the same city,
particularly in regard to fire.
Quebec formerly might be considered fortunate exemp-
ton from great FIRES The total Of the fires which have hap
pened during the last seventy years do equal Of
which have occurred within month"; and is remarkable thai
no very extensive eever before occurred in the suburbs