The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-12
TWO CENTS.

Inc GREAT FIRE IN WARE, MAss.-About I2L
o'clock on Tue sda night, October 3, a fire b-ok-
ing and that with ~ oothtr buildings Maine rect
ard one small one In the I,sr, .ntirely destroyed
me arcade contained, hesid~s the store Of Mr. e,
stnoe ana clothing store Kept BY Demond Russies,
jewellers shop kept by l. Bsbcock, milliuer shop
Kept by Mrs Sqnirrs and three families Nothing
We saved from the store of Mr. Gale tho goods in
Demond 4 kugges' store were mostly saved, and .
Iait OF The contents of Mr.. Babcocss shop got
out Mrs Squires and all the families In the building
Iost Ne arIy everything they had and Of the In
nlates ,csrcely e.captd with their night clothing The
two other a1ge buildings destroyed were by
s. y. Pepper and w. \ Breckenridge the former
Kept book store and the latter apothecarys chop
Their property was mostly taved Ths other vsa co.
cuped by f. wbouer & Brother as a west Indis
anu dry goods store The stock OF goods vas pri net
pay saved AZ one time the fur niture and hardware
soue o, w DE WIZ, which djoined the last men,
toned building, was on fire. and for a while the flames
70 sweep every building on that side Of the
Merchants Exchange hurried n the street and
among them the type aud nearly all the printing ma
tered. The arcade building owoed by Warren O.
Fay, and was valued ut about - 600 1t was insured
ft' S2lO0 MIR Gale was insured for 81 000-probably
nearly Gil bis stock vas worth. Drmond X Ru ,gles
bad their goods damaged probably to the amount of
II COO They were al'o insured Mr. Babcook's loss
was bout $500 Mrs Squircs's loss fall short
Of $500 She lost 5000 in money, and all her good and
clothing Her little boy came very being burned
up Porter Fairfield and wfe did not . whole
garment Mr.. Therrill and Mr. Adam Thayer who
lived In the basement, saved few articles The Ma
connected with 1t destroyed Mr. Peppers goods we're
damaged to the extent of $500 5000 He was not
insured MI breckenridge stock WAS injured TO
ABOUT the same amount-insured The build ng which
thsy occupied was owned bv Mesrs Lyon and Phslps,
ana was worth about 81 0OO 1T Vas insured = New.
pouer Brothers goods are damaged considerably.
Ihey were ins ured for $1,000. The building Itch
they occupied was owned by Denison Converse. aud
was valued at between So 900 and $4,000. Not in
sured w. De Wits goods were damaged by being
moved, TO the amount OF $500. The building which
Dc occupies IL owned ny Lyon Phelps and was da
msgra CONSIDERABLY The building aud goods therein
were insured The Commercial Exchange, owned by
Jos' pm iartwell, l. Draper, and Warren q Fay,
damaged badly. The goods in the store of d. Con-
verse Co, were greatly damaged by being moved.
Oth.rs In the same block suffered loss by having
their goods moved into the street. Goods OF all kinds
wtre stolen and one Of the light ngered gentry
knocked down while carrying of piece Of broad
cloth the fire was undoubtedly the work Of an iu-
cendiary II was but little more than week ago
that ire was discovered and extinguished in the
same store where the last one broke out. Suspicious
rested upon Gale the owner OF the store, aud he
was arrested His trial came off the afternoon and
evening Of Wsdn' sday which resulted in his acqutta
Several OF his workmen testified that they had found