Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-24

inthis eity broke out this morning about o'clock. It originated, we believe in Soap Chandlery in New street and communicated to the store alnng sice and thence to the rear o building in Broad. way, which contained large quantity of Salt Pe- Ire. The explosion which took place from the ;g- milton of this cOmbustible matter was Tremendous and felt and heard in almost e;ery part of the city. Blue flames issued though the ruins and ex- tended over the entire street. broad as it is, say 100 feet, and communicated the fire to the stores On the opposite s;;Gi..
 Engines No. and 42, we believe, were the first on the spot. and were greatly exposed at the tune ofthe explosion, but none of the members so lar as we could learn, were seriously injured.
 Three of No. 40 are nsissing. The roll was cal- led after the explosion.
 Engine Co. No. P was attached by hose and could not be rescued from the flames and was burnt
 In Broadway at half past four almost the entire block commencing at Waverly House and extend ing down to Beaver street was in flames. We could only gather few particulars.
 .... 71-2 O'CLOCK, A. M.
 We have this moment returned from the scene of the Conhagration, with eye, heart and brain op- pressed with the sublime and appalling spectacle. The whole area between Broad st., Exchange Place, Beaver street and Broadway, and up Broadway to the Waverly House, is one vast amphitheatre of blood red flame sweeping like hurricance on fire, falling walls, smoke and cinders flying like gigan- tic meteors all ways at once. The flames have ap- preached within two doors of the Public Store, Mo- 12 Broad, containing an immense amount of valua- ble goods of all sorts The fire, it Is believed, will not stop short of William st. aud the Exchange and the fierce wind which has been raised by the terrific force of the flames, is driving the confagra ton furiously toward the South and East There Is no calculating where it may be stopped this side of the water.
 On Broadway the roof and walls of the Waverly House have just fallen in, and the eager flames are licking about the doors and windows of the adjoin- ing buildings, and darting their fiery tongues to- ward the Globe Hotel. Below, the tall and costly buildings down to the Boston and Providence De- pot are all in mass of flame, and look like an im mense glass furnace-wh'le ever and anon thunders tottering wall, sending up column Of flame and burning dust, which spreads like pail of fire over the sky and showers a hail-storm of living coals and flaming brands over the crowd which horribly throng and suffocate the streets in every direction for mile around.
 The Depot is now on fire, and tremendous rush takes place among the trampling crowd. a rumo: spreads that the building contains large quantity of spirits The wind increases its strength and flu. ry, and now, after blowing in whirlwind about the hottest flame, sets m steady current to the southeast. The Adelphi-one of the loftiest and most extensive buildings in this part of the city, must inevitably go. Indeed, there is little doubt that the whole of Broadway lying between Ex- change, New and Beaver streets. and the Bowling Green, will certainly be destroyed. This block is almost exactly the shape of molar tooth, with the prong lying upward and the face fronting on the Bowling Green.
 The entire block between Broad and New str'ts, from Exchange to Beaver, is heap of smoking and blazing ruins. Not building is left standing. On the south-ea cnrner of Broad and Beaver, which forms the point of large triangular block ofheavy mercantile houses-one of the most valuable per- haps in the clty-the flames are raging with un- paraeled fury, and we do not see how single brick is to be saved.
 The fremen are making, as always in cases of great emergency like this. almost superhuman ex- ertions, but what can they do against this fearful enemv which attacks them on every side at once, and seems possessed with spirit ofhuman revenge, as it leaps shouting from roof to roof. Already we fear two of their precious machines (22 and 3) are destroyed-22 certainly. Three fircmen are belie- we'd to have lost their lives, and they are standing at this nom snt on all the roofs exposed to the most fearful danger.
 At the time the first explosion took place, fire man belonging to Engine Co., 22, standing on the roof of house next to the explosion, was blown, as we are assured by the Assistant Foreman of the Company, two whole squares before touching the ground. He escaped with sprained ancle.
 The scene in Broadway near the place, in Wall street, South William, Exchange Place, Rector, Morris, and Thames streets, quite de6es all att tempts at description. Drays, carts, and wheel barrrows, hastily loaded with the most incongru-
 
 in every direction, attended by their sweating blackened and excited drivers. Irish women, with bed in one hand and two or three naked children in the other, run to deposit them on the walk, or wherever there may be look for safety
 The sidewalk in front of Old Trinity is filed higher than your head with bulwark of beds, bu- Yeaus, chests, tables, kettles, clocks, sauce-pans, portraits vases gridirons, easy chairs, meal bags, counterpances, potatoes, and every thing else that was ever seen or heard of.
 The Bowling Green is full of similar materials, while forty or fifty poor families trying to dress themselves. washing their faces in the fountain, ,and flushing the cries of their children.
 The elks from Oregon look frightened into tame. ness, and cover amid the flakes of fire that fall on every side.
 In the Battery there are acres upon acres of household goods scattered upon the grass-each little pile attended by the out driven family Here is pine cradle. roughly rocking pale, squalid looking infant--there group of smutted faces re- freshing themselves from broken whiskey bottle Such scene has never been dreamed or imagined.
 The glare of the confagration lies thick and rud- dy upon the Bay, and the red light of the new-ris en sun minges ghastly with the redder and bright CT hue of the flames. The whole city seems pour. ing into this fiery and hissing funnel, in steady stream.
 Several of the awnings in rear of the elegant row of buildings fronting the Bowling Green were on fire at one time-gnited by vagranr ember-but they were speedily extinguished without other damage.
 O'CLOCK, P. M. THE CONFEDERATION CHECKED-FUR-
 THEIR PARTICULARS.
 We at length are able to announce that the terri ble Confagration which has devastated so impor- tant and wealthy portion of our City, has yielded to the untiring and well-directed eXertons of our