The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-23
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BY the Peoples Line.
AWFUL FIRE AT ST. LOUIS !
LOSS 100000!
Fire at Milaoouhie-Loss Of the Empire
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS:
Triumph of he Hungarians ,--Russia and Austria

Triumph OF he aungarians .-RusSia ana austria
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LOUISVILLE, May IS, 1894 most destructive
fire occurred at St. Louis last night. At about 10
at the head of the Levee, took fire. The fire was
communicated to the Edward Bates, which was
Immediately in flames, and floating down, set fire
to all the other boats, which were unable to get
out, owing to strong gale prevailing at the time.
The whole feet at the Levee was soon burning,
and the following boats, with their cargoes, were
destroyed The white Cloud, Edward Bates,
Belle Isle, Taglioni, Boreas No. 3, Alice, Ameri-
can Eagle, Sarah, Kit Carson, Montauk, linda,
Acadia, Mameluke, Prairie State, Eurdora, St.
Peters, Red Wing, Alex. Hamilton, Martha, Eliza
Stewart, Mandan, Gen. Brooke, and Frolic. In
addition to these large number of barges and
wood boats We're destroyed.
The intense heat from the burning boats soon
fired the stores on the Levee, commencing at Locust
street, in the heart Of the business portion of the
city, and extending from that street three quarters
of mile down the Levee, and thence back TO
Second street-nearly every building within these
boundaries being laid in ruins.
1t is almost impossible, in the confusion, to give
accurate particulars. The new Republican office,
with extensive materials is destroyed also, the Off
ces of the following newspapers, the New Era,
Organ, Reveille, and German Advertiser Part of
the materials of the Telegraph office, the banking
houses of Benoist, B. B. Anderson, Presbury & Co.,
Clark & Co., Nesbitt g. Co., and E. P. Person,
were destroyed, but the vaults are all good and the
contents supposed to be secure. In the burnt dis
trct the heaviest business houses and of their
immense stocks of goods very little was saved.
The lowest estimate of the loss is FiUe Millions
Of Dollars. How much was insured it is impossi-
bic to say.
At Peru the steamer Revolution was destroyed
by fire on the 10th inst.
Deaths by Cholera-On Wednesday there were
"a deaths by cholera, and yesterday twenty. The
river has fallen here IS inches.
LOUISVILLE, May IS. II P. NJ Fire at NIL
,Daukie.-A great fire broke out yesterday at Mil
waukie, at o'clock in the morning, which de.
stroyed large number of houses, including the
offices of the Sentinel and Gazette newspapers.
Several barns belonging to the stage companies
were burned with the whole stock. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000 to $4,000. 1t is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
Loss of the Steamer Empire.
New York, May is, P. M.-The steamer En-.
pre was sunk last night by coming in collision with
a schooner. She is still submerged to her promen-
ade deck, and her cabin is supposed to contain the
corpses of a large number who were drowned.
Eleven bodies were found in pumping out the water
from her boilers. The boat was not insured.
Latest Items by the Canada.
The latest teegraphic dispatch from London to
the Courier g. Enquirer, says that consols declined
there per cent.-the supposed cause being the
junction of the Austrian and Russian cabinets.
The great f9te al Paris passed off without distur
bance :; few cries of ViUe Republique were heard,
and the President was cheered with shouts of Viue
Napoleon. :. The Government report state, the
necessity of reforming prison discipline.
Sardinia and Austria were about signing an Of
fensive and defensive treaty-the former paying
eighty millions to Austria, who vacates Alessandria
At Vienna, 1900 wounded were brought in on
the 18th of April. .
On the Both inst, the siege of Comorn was raised
by the Austrians, and the Hungarian dictator in
stalled at Pesth. He proclaimed the independence
of Hungary The Hungarian cause is daily gain
ing ground. "A large Russian force, estimated at
1000 men, were about to enter Austria in five
columns.