Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-08-02
lFrom lhe PIeayune, IuIy ao.l

The mail Of yesterday brought us the graft.
flying Intelligence that the great cunfagtalion
in New York, which our previous intelligence
left sill burning, had finally been checked,
and without doing much further damage. st
y U'cloCa on the morning OF the 18th INST. il
was still raging, but by IL the flames were
got under and The further progress Of the
destruction arrested. We make up our ac-
count ot This fearful calamity from The differ
eht New York Journals.
The Journal OF Commerce thus defines the
limits Of the rayageS:
On the east size Of Broadway, every bull
ding rom Exchange Pace, commencing with
the WaYeriy II use, 10 MarkesfeId Street, is
utterly consumed, also three or four dwellings,
oelow Markelfetd. The house on The corner
Of Stone aud Whitehall streels, aud Two or
three dwellings, north 1T stoiie street, remain
comparatively uuinjured. Thence to Broad
street Stone street IS the boundary. Through
Br, ad street, from Stone to the public stores,
within two or three doors Of Wan street, the
build ngs on both sides are all destroyed. A
Ii e drawn from the pubic stores 10 the Wa
verify House is the init on the nor h-west.
Iii Beaver street, all The buildings on both
sides are consumed, from the Bowling G cen
to within Eve or six doors Of W lillian Street,
On the west side of Broadway the buildings
a e all destroyed, from Morris street 10 No.
10, occupied by alr.. Barker as d boarding
house-thiS aStinelnded.
Here we might observe, on the authority
Of tie Commercial Advertiser, that the burnt
district IS Tue tnast Important and valuable
para Of The city, being composed OF large and
costly buildings, filled v lin expensive mer-
chandise. The French and German ner.
chants congregated Lhiefyin that district,
The total amount OF insurance on all The
property destroyed amounts 10 between four
and five mill ons Of dollars, probably touf mil
lIoas ive hundred thousand, and this i'm.
mense sum, il is thought, will be prompt Y
paid without closing more Than two offices,
the Merchants Fife aud the East RIVER.
These companies have risks, the later 10 the
Sam0unto OF S200,090 aud the former $500 600;
they will pay, in4uli OF nearly so, but viii have
no capital left 10 60 IN with. The Boston
Insurance companies lose but little, not bring
wiling TO insure so low as the New Yors-
9erS The Mutual Safety Insurance Company
of New York loses in the neighborhood OF
S40o, GOO. One establishment was insured to
the same amount, 100000, in London.
The Jourl al o~fCominerce says that the to-
tai number Of buildings burned up is about
two hundred, making about two hundred and
fifty street numbers, as many I t them had two
fronts. Many tlerbuddsngS haze been more
or less scorched andd4naged.
Notwithstanding many OF The papers assert
that the terrible explosion which took place
was caused BY the saltpetfe in Croker i
Warren's store, in New street, the Journal
Of Commerce has no doubt that it arose from
the re ersoir gas meier Of the Manhattan
Company, situated in New street, caused by
tha bant.rF Tho a;abI.,rIa 6ru Tbara ,sns
nothing else which could nave made ii, and
thar could. ain corr oboration Of III S" CON
iinues The Journal, "the gas lights in our office
went our Immediately upon the explosion.
There was a qAantty of salfpetre in the Store
Of Crocker q Warren, but a store full of il
was burned ten years ago, and there was M
explosion. Gunpuwder is Spoken OF, but With
out evidence thai any was pr sent
The same paper has the following in add.
ton:
''The ex Slosion was tremendous, and pro-
duced the utmost CONSERVATION throughout
the lowerpart of the city. The Office of this
papereseemed as %iftopplIng to its base. The
PRIMERS site S were thrown from their hands;
and The gas lights suddenly extinguished ad-
ded to the terror and confusion Of the scene.
4 We experienced no damage, however, except
in the breaking Of The window glSss. Near
~ every building in Wall street, and in fact
in all The streets contiguous to the burnt dis
trict, had its windows more OF less injured,
and in some instances whole sashes were
dashed in, and the large massive doors of the
stoFes-either swung open, or were detached
wholly from hinges and boil, and thrown into
the centre of the buildings such was the
effect Of the explosion on the Merchants Ex.
Ichange, as 10 burst in the windows, breaking
large quantities Of the thickest plate glass
Even the interior doors were burst opens
s3l'he explosion occurred in successive
shocks, previous 10 which the atmosphere was
irradiated with brilliap, aa>hes Of ligh Hinged
with every variety of color. The air vas i'm,
nediately after filed with balls of FIRE and
burnt, e beams some of which, Of huge size
we're thrown to an incredible height and dis.
tsnce."