The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-06-04
Correspondence Of the Cadiz sentinel.

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Without the permission of the writer, we
take the liberty of making the following extract
from private letter Of friend, to the editor of
the Sentinel, dated
Pitts6wgh, May 2s, 1915.
DEAR ARPER,--Last night our city was light
ed up by another fire. 1t broke out in Prospect
street, below the new basin, and destroyed about
fifty houses. You may recollect these houses
were generally frame, and inhabited by mechan.
les, draymen and working men. You may ina
CINE the CONSERVATION that pervaded the city, on
beholding this elevated portion of it on FIRE, and
like volcano, ready to do the work of destruc-
ton which ever way the wind would blew the
burning cinders. The 9th ward was imminently
in danger. The wind was from the South, and
had il been a little stronger, there is no telling
how far the conhagraton would have extended
From the top of my house, where had carried
water 10 case it should be needed, could see
the people in the 9th ward strewing salt on their
roofs, or dashing water on the flaming PARTICLES
that lit on the m. Every one was active and do
ing all that could be done for self preservation.
! The poor people who have been burnt out, and
lost their all, must meet with general sympa-
thy. have no doubt but that 100 families were
! deprived by this calamity of their houses The
loss 10 poor man of his little house, containing
! his all, should meet with a warmer sympathy than
ought 10 be felt for the wealthy, whose fortunes
are often but little impaired by The loss of a
warehouse or costly mansion; yet but few
think Of the destruction of the humble tenement
and society mOurns over that which can be re-
placed without any extraordinary effort The
loss by the great fire on the 10Th of April fe
generally OH persons who could bear 1t; it is true
many lost their al, and to these should be ex
tended the benevolence af a sympathising pub
| lie.
! don't know whether our councils will take in
to account, IN their distribution of the funds which
have been received from all quarters for relief
the poor people who was burnt out last night
but think they should. When will these fire!
end2 who is safe? what is 10 be done? | cam
think that Providence has selected our city on
of others of the world, for a special manifesto
ton of retributve justice for sins committed
The ways of Providence are mysterious out 0
evil often cometh good. The great fire in Lon
don was benefit to that city. 'The paltial' evi
produced ''universal good" In Hume's His
tory you will find an account of it, think i
occurred in 1866. Before it the streets were
narrow and badly built up; after the fire, the cor
sets being taken off, the lungs had freer action
and the plague and diseases that before that pc
riod carried off thousands annually in the i'll,
ventilated streets and alleys, no longer found vic
Tins in the we'll built squares which combined
cleanliness with free calculation of the breatl
of Heaven.
You know what coward am Oh the subicc
of tire--my senstiveness has not decreased.
others were like me, fewer calamties ofthe kline
would occur, though however watchful one ma,
be of ones own premises, he cannot extend tn,
same vigilance to the premises of his neighbors
My property is insured but for nothing like il
value. There are agencies of Philadelphia off
ccs here doing fine business.