Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-26

Oher estimates make the number of buildings destroye
about two hundred and the loss Of property six millions
dollars.
Thirty stores were DESTROYED in which goods entitled to de
benure had been stored by the officers of the customs Their
also four large Stores belonging to the Custom house
filled with liquors. destroyed
The swept may be thus described On the
side of Broadway it commences with the great establishment
the Waycricy Hotel, the of New street. which il
utterly destroyed and from this point southwark Market
field street below the Bowling Green, and for three
houses Whitehall street, every house destroyed This
line about quarter Of mile in length and the number OF
buildings IL about forty fifty, including among the
most splendid hotels the city, the rest consisting of stores and
dwellings. The Adelph House, the Of Beaver
street. stories in height and of the
Of that ancient part Of the city is level with the ground
The fire then proceeds eastward along the middle of the block
between Markeied and Stone until bursts into Stone
the great storage warehouse whose destruction have
described II then proceeds along Stone street Broad and
crossing Broad consumed both sides Of the way The
line Of the burnt district passes along the of the stores
the side Of South William Exchange On
Exchange street the FIRE approaches close the southwest
corner Of the Exchange The fire crosses Exchange
street. dng the dry goods warehouses in its course and
preaching the Of the Wall street banks and into
Broad street at the iron warehouse of Davis Brooks Co
1t here Broad again just below the
houses belonging the Government which happily escaped
and then follows up Exchange street TO its junction with Broad
| way at the Waverley House.
The space thus bounded is partially burnt, but is
blacened Of wreck We have destruction
lsmenable complete. II nearly all covered, with
the exception of the dwelling houses Broadway with the
largest and dry goods establishments in the city On the
opposite side Of Broadway at the head Of the Bowling Green
three four Of the largest and finest dwelling In the
city caught about six o'clock and wholly destroyed but
fortunately the fire checked before spread to Greenwich
The inside OF perhaps three four fine buildings on
this side of the street ruined besides those quite consumed
The sight around the environs Of the fire, well as within
the space burnt over Is The families Of at
fifty houses Broadway both sides Of Greenwich street.
on State Whitehall Stone, and Pearl Streets and Battery
Place have turned the with their furniture
through dread Of their houses being burnt their heads
Broadway, THAT part where both sides burning, nj
least one hundred and y feet wde yet intense the
heat il the middle Of the street. that for hundred yards
the daring irepcn could venture upon the glowing
pavement.
The panic among the merchants William, PEARL and
lower part OF Exchange Streets the side Of the cona
grafton equally great and suppose that hundred
empcd of their goods prodgious and
loss which moi reached 10y the fire. Vast amounts Of
valuable goods lost by being deluged with water
Il said that there two EXPLOSIONS which occurred du
ring the early stages Of the fire. of which undoubted
" the explosion Of the Of gas in New street The
OF this explosion TO he in several parts OF the
city in the ncgbborhood Of the fire; wherever pipe
near window there the glass is many instances broken
iy the shock On the bursting OF the reservoir the whole
filed with Of living flame, which in few insans
attached itself various places to the surrounding buildings
and from this circumstance, mainly, il that the fire
,anled itself with much rapidity.
We sorry find that there almost certainty Of one
or more deaths by the fire. The Of persons
mentioned who have not been since the fire broke out
conectued that they buried beneath the ruins Of
their property.
There dreadful panic in Greenwich street during 1e
fire. was suddenly shouted that the buildings next the
flames were to be blown up when the whole Of the
crowd men, women, and children, carts and ornnibuses,
rushed up the street. like herd Of buiialoes, amplng
and busng each other fearful rate Il was long while
before order could be restored What damage was done
cannot as yet say.
computed by Of reporters who has examined the
whole district about $40 houses in all totally
! sumed l4 e1. @ a5.as.
Among the goods destroyed by the fire are, 300 bales
cotton chests tea 5000 900 hoshcads and 500