Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-06-19

lion of Lye-Fily Bodies recovered from the
ruins, &c.
We received by Magnetic Telegraph at ten
o'clock las, night, the following awful and heart
-cnding information from Quebec, that city hav-
INC been doomed 10 another immense loss OF lille
by fire:
PHILADELPHIA, June II,
10 O'Clock P. NJ.
from the Quebec Mercury OF June 18th.
|. has again pleased the Almighty to atfiicI our
already chasened city. Last night al ii o'clock,
FIRE broke ont in the Theatre Royal, Lewis ST.,
formerly The Riding School.
A, the close Of Mr.. Hanisons exhibition OF his
chemical dIoramas, Orom the information we
nave been able 10 s!ean,) a camphine lamp was
overset from some cause or other, and The stage
a, once became enveloped in flames. The house
had been densely crowded, but some had iortu-
naiey LEFT before the accident. A rush was al
once made for the staircase leading from the
bvxss by those who in The moment OF excite
nen: forgot The other passages OF egress. In
An incre.!ioiy short space OF time the whole of
The interior ot the building was developed in one
shee, oi flame The newly erected PLATFORM CO.
vering the pit and communicating al each end
with The Stage and boxes, favored the progress OF
The danes. The staircase communicated with
the boxes. Il had fallen from the weight oil those
who crowded upon il; one foot was interposed
between the haple>s crowd and eternity, and on
that space we, with Ave or six others stood, the
ietrr flames around US, and the dense smoke re-
polling all efforts 10 exricate us. As FAR back as
re could SEE, there was sea OF heads and oil
writing bodies and oustreiched arms. Noise
there was none; and though bu, few means OF es-
cape were presented 10 The doomed, yet al the eI-
IRENE end faces could be seen calm and resigne /,
q. persons who, as the funeral pail Of smoke
gr Guallv enshrouded them, appeared 10 drop
in'o eternal sleep.
b. our side was one brother, striving TO extri-
Gaze another, but abandonment was unavoidable
One poor creature ar our feet offered his entire
wo-Glr wealth for his rescue.
The asouzing expression Of the faces before
a~eaa never be effaced from our memory. The
ian sal TIE time were above and around US,
ta: human aid was Of no avail. In I'VE minutes
n m he time OF which we make mention, the
mass { human beings who had, but short in
ezra previously been in the enjoyment OF full
anc acire life, we're exposed TO our view mass
u cslcined bones.
Cp 10 this hour fortv-six bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins Most OF them have been
-scoenized A greater loss Of lie Than in the
tao dreadful conhasra,ions OF la>l summer. SAD
aailing uervades he city. Scarcely street can
he ,raveIsed in which the closed shutter or The
hanging crane do not be,oken sudden bereave-
rent
Fathers. sisters, and children OF both sexes, in
dnlee in the deepest lamentations over The GALA
rniry which has fallen upon many OF those who
we're thus suddenly and awfally summoned into
the presence of their Greater.
The theatre and stables adjoined, we should
add, were burnt 10 The ground
The ruins are still smoking: and, as in the
time ofLoadon's great plague, the dead cart Pile:
10 and fro from the scene Of the calamity to dif
:eren; paris OF The city; conveying its ghas'lY
load OF charred remains, followed by weeping
relatives and the gaping crowd which ever al
tend such dread scenes.