The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-07-28

| no soe"e l" broadway near the FIRE, in Wall
street, south William, Exchange Place, Rector. Nor
rlS ana lhamesstreets, quite defes all attempts ot
description Drays, carts and Wheebarrows. bosG.
| y loaded with the most homogeneous cargoes are
pushing through the dense crowd in every direction
attended by the sweating, blaokened and exciting
drivers Irish women, with bed in one hand and
TWO or three naked children in the other, runto de-
| PosHe them on the walk, or wherever there NAV be
look for safety.
The side walk front of Old Trinity is filled higher
tnan your head with bulwark of beds bureaus
chests, tables, kettles clocks mans nor,raits
vases gridIrons, easy-chars, meal-bags, counter
panes potatoes and every thing else that was ever
seen or heard Of
The Bowling Green is Gull of similar materials.
whle forty or fifty poor families are trying to dress
themselves, washing their faces in the Fountain ana
hushing the cries of their children.
IN the Battery there upon acres of house,
mold goods scattered upon the grass-each little pile
attended by the out driven family. Here is pine
craoe' roughly rocking pale squallid-ooking infant
there group ofsmuched faces refreshing themselves
from broken whiskey- bottle.. Such a scene has
never been dreamed or imagined. .. ...
The glare olthe con6agralion lies thick and ruddy
upon the Bay, and the red light of the new risen sun
mingles CHASTITY with the redder and brighter hue of
inc names. The whole City seems pouring into this
merry and Kissing funnel, in steady stream.
O'CLOCK, p. NJ. We at length are enabled to
announce that the terrible conhagration which devas
taxed so important and wealthy portisn of our CITY,
mas yielded to the unrng and well directed exertions
oil our gallant Firemen--and is now subdued Never
was battle field so Gercely contested-never was bat
te-hed so thicky strewn with wrecks and trophies
The following is an outline of the ground burnt
On the east side of Broadway every building from
Exchange Place, commencing with the WaverIy
House, to Observation-Disclosures, is utterly consumed; al
SO three or four dwellings below Marketfeld. The
house on the corner of Stone and Whitehall streets
and two or three dwellings north of Sone-slreet re-
main comparatively uninjured. Thence to Broad
street, Stone-street is the boundary 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. line drawn from the public
stores to the WaverIy House, is the limit on the
northwest In Beaver-sreet all the buildings on
both sides from the Bowling Green within five or six
doors of William. street On the west side Of Broad
way the buildings all destroyed, from Norris
street to No. Is, occupied by Mrs Barker as board
ing house-ths last incuded''
The number Of lives lost, it is at this moment i'm
possible 10 estimate Probabilities in favor of its
being very consderabe-but no cases are known
save the following: Peter A. Johnson, porter of
Dwight Johnson who has left wife and three eh!-
dren He was found, together with coored man
(name unhnown,) under the ruins Of AZ Broad street.
married lady, sister, we believe of the wife Of Off
Ger Martin, it is ascertaned was buried in the ruins
of 81 Broad street-NIr A. l.. Cowdry, member of
engine company No. AZ, who persisted in house in
New street, and whose remains have not vet been re-
covered although the fremen were at work all day.
searching Tor theln-Mr Won Groenng, the firm OF
Pavnesedt and Won Grooming, "a Pearl street, who
blown up in the store AZ Broad street; but whose
body has not been found. Tho other cases of sup
posed death only reports.
The losses of the insurance companies have
estimated, with much accuracy il can be done
now and from good sources of information, at 4Sl4,-
900. Among merchants, assurances generally eff
fected up the full amount of their goods, but not
On buildings, or among other classes Of persons If
'ne-half lost has been insured the loss is SO, $50, 900
II only one-third, the loss is $l4,442,0o0 Apart
from the losses Of the insurance companies here.
Now store of an Insurance in Europe for $780,
w We fear the whole loss will reach ten mill |
lohS'although some estimate at not or
e'Sn' millions. About 800 stores burnt, two !
large h0'e' and some beautiful private dwellings,
IL Is 'Ot'un that the fire did not happen little la
Ter IN Tue yea' vas the stocks comparatively
iow' the IAN iitrtatiOns not having taken place.
Inc great anN'ee now is, and one about which
there Is the most anAety, 'what insurance compa-
MES will pay?" but ~tbeeve that there is but very
little doubt that nearly Ssthe losses will be paid
The public mind is prof. mildly agitated as to the
cause of the explosion. Ths,e,ter opinion is that
saltpetre was the cause, but m,v think tina, large
quantities of gunpowder were inv store of Messrs.
Croker & Warren sapetre chatrea NAV form
species of gunpowder; but if salpehe is SO explosive
in fire. we must hereafter have bat hle of it in the
city. ss
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