American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-07-22
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.

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about 10 O'Clock on Saturday morning.
The loss is varously estimated u: from five
TO ten millions of collars, and the number of
houses consumed al from 600 10 500. In Ex-
change Place IS warehouses were burnt, and
As IN Broad street. Abon, l6,5O0 bales of
cotton was consumed. Il is supposed that
some IL or 20 persons were killed by the ex-
pioslon aud by falling walls. At least | 3 fire.
men were III the hospital seriously wounded.
/ The mayor had oroercd out the military to
protect the property OF the sufferers.
We copy the following particulars from our
New York contemporaries Of Saturday evening:
Exchange Place. The following buildings are
totally destroyed: No. 40, occupied by Frank
lin & Harris and iienly Stevens No. IS, Starr
s. CO.; No. So No. 81, Andrew Mitchell & Co.
No 81, Reiss, Brothers & CO., books and po-
persall saved, Bird, Chilean & Co. removed to
No. Sd Pine street. and Hutchinson, Tffdny &
Co; No. %, Richards & Cronkhite-ostmate
their loss at 100000. Insured. Upper floors
occupied by a. =. Montani; No Sc, Eli Good
win & Co. This is the corner of Broad and
Exchange streets; No. SIS; No. 60; No. e.,
Markoe, Wilbur & Scott. Most Of the books
destroyed. They have removed their Office 10
No. "A the same street; No So, Post, Thomas
& Dale and Butterfeld & Brothers. No. IS,
Fearing s Hall; No. 81; No. SO, Jos Rhodes.
.Ncas street. No. q, corner building, por-
ter house, kept by Van Dolan, No. -, a car
penter's shop; No &c w. During, tailor; No.
rs First Ward House.
BrOadl0Gy No. 80, Jas. Griffin, hair dresser
and dwelling; No. "a, dwelling and silk manu-
factory OF o. K. Burnham, all extensive estab-
lishment, where from 200 to 800 hands are en-
ployed. Mr.. Bornham lost his whole establish
nent once before at the great Fulton and Ann
81. fire. The Norwich and Boston Railroad
and the Steamboat Cos. Offices were in this
building No SO, Mrs. G. B. Miller s. Co. TO-
bacco factory; No. IS dwelling; No, 40, 7.
Chouteau, Jr. & Co.; No. Al, depot for plate
glass; No. "A, John Miller No. 46, SEWN &
Brothers; Nos. as and 60, dwelling houses; No.
So w. L. Branch; r. c. Andrus; No sd, c.
| Boeram, Jr.; No. SO, Stanford & Smith; Siff.
ken & lronsides; No. IS, Mrs. Mary Wild;
Waverly House, Broadway, on the southeast
side, from Marketheld 81. to Exchange, all
down; and Nos. and 8 Whitehall st. burn
ing On the opposite side Of Broadway, dwell
ing houses Nos IS to %, as faI as the corner
of Morris st. all burned out, and the fire still
spreading down Morris St.; No %, large pri-
vate boarding house; No, II, the beautiful blue
granite house, with spacious porch, defended
by two cast-ron lions, was occupied by Mr.. Ray,
and was built by Mr.. Martin E. Thompson, is
completely gone, except the massive walls; No.
Is, elegant tbree-story marble dwelling, all de-
stroyed but the walls-it was owned and occu-
pied by Mr.. Brevoort; No. Is, Mrs. Barker's
extensive boarding house-inside completely
burnt-walls standing. The Atlantic Hotel,
Broadway, opposite the Bowling Green, is no;
injured by the fire.
Beaver street Both sides burned from Broad.
way to near William street. 10. A. G. Ros-
sire & Co; %. Merriam s. Bernard, 80. John
Scott; %. BIeithaupt & Chun; &c, Joel Wolfe;
p. T. Derrng; H. w T. s. II Mali; 90. Jas.
W. lngate; SO. Daniel Oakley s. Sons, (remov-
ed to 81 William ST. 81. Brinkerhoff, Fox &
Polhemus, (removed 70 IS Pine st); 40. d. L.
| Suydam; Al. Barber Brothers; AZ. L. Babcock;
46. Hall Brothers & CO.. az. J. Robinson & Co;
so. II. Escher; 81; Wllmerdings, Priest &
Mount; So. Bernhard & Hutton; 81. Draper,
Dias h Warren; GO. c. Bridge.
South William street. No. l6, John Allen,
cooper; No. is, A. Rolker s. CO.; No. 20,
Carcassone & Gomez. Among their goods de-
stroyed were about $50 cases of essential oils;
No. %, P. & f. Porter and G.. emmett; No.
% and %, both down; No. %, Dutilh g. eau
sinery, damaged and still in danger; No. %
and II, Sheldon and Phelps, on fire. The
above extends through 10 Stone-st
Broad Street. II, Wilkins s. Rollins; l9
and 2l, DAVIS & Brooks; %, Bolton, Fox &
Livingston-much damaged, but not destroyed;
23 +. II. Ludlow & Co.; IA, Haven s. Co. and
Pallnieri; %, Eugene Grousset; &c, Barclay &
Livingston-books all saved, &c, Dunscomb &
D. L.. 90 f1aa @, IL
Gle; 20, c. Darbefeuille and F. Echartre; 80,
Sherman, Atwater & Co.; 80, Wilson &
Brown; SO, Ernest Fielder; 20, Schmidt & Vo-
gel-(removed to ll2 Wall street;) So, E.
Blackburn, Z. Lentlhon & Co, J. c. HOOKER;
SO, Amzi Cook, furniture, T. NJ. Mcfarland,
city weigher; 81, Croker s. Warren; 40, J.
r. Coddington, The whole of Broad street to
Exchange Place below Beaver-st. No. Al.
Maitland, Comre & Co.; %, GelIich & Kru-
ger, Herckenrath s. Van Damme; "a, A. De
Rham & Moore, (removed to IS Wall, Faber
s. Bierwith; 46, John |. Leger; so, Z. C. Lit
tie, chair maker; Jonathan Clark, cabinet
maker; ST, Myers, Lawrence & Co., SO, w.
Conklin, chairmaker; 81, A. b. McAlpin; 81,
McCracken & Livingston; p, Mcfarland s
Cotheal thence to No. so, dwelling houses;
50, Asa Dow; 81, Gardeners clearinghouse; Sc,
Carpenters shop; IS, small grocery.
One o'clock. The fire is subdued and has not
spread any farther than already described,
though the destruction within that limit is
more complete.
At u o'clock, the dwelling house, Ne IS,
at the corner of Broadway and Morris street,
fell with a tremendous crash, striking with
great force against the opposite building and
breaking in the windows, sc. No one hurt.
Several iron safes have been saved from the
ruins, many of them so little injured that the
books and papers are perfectly legible, That
Of Davis & Brooks is still standing on the 2nd
floor, and though several times enveloped IN
flames, is still i'll available condition. Barclay
& Livingston have also saved their books and
pspers.
Mr.. Augustus l.. Cowdrew;a member Of No
AZ. son Of The lac Samnal GnMdreM WIS in nnn