The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-28
Additional Particulars Of the Trcm endous
COnfingTntlOn In 81. Louis.

From the st. Louis Union, May 10
In our morning edition. gave what Of interest
able to collect relative to the connagraon which
has laid in ashes large portion Of st Louis We also
proms ed give leaders in evening issue,
detailed account il possible to collect; but,
to get anything like full and accurate statement OF
the amount Of property destroyed, number of lives
lott. is not within the range of possibility We can
only follow the general range of the fire. without going
into details. We begin by stating that the point at
which he fire first started shore at the
Of Locust street and the leveethe house and
three buildings above it, fronting the leyee de-
stroyed; the flames then crossed Locust and swept
every house with one ption) in the blocks fronting
the levee ain street and ding from Locust
street southwark to hesnut street distance of three
squares At Chestnut street II turned and crossed
to the next block south at the junction Of Com
cal alley with this street and from the alley
Nam and dow to Market street. burning all except
two buildings ut the Of Market street and Com
mercial alley At the junction of Market and Main
streets the flames crossed dagonally to the Market
Street House aud followed both sides Of Market street.
mp to Second street; then crossing Main street. the
flames again swept every building from Locust to Mar
ket except row OF four four-story fire proof brick
buildiI gs just below Locust street
Passing up Pine, Chestnut and Market streets, the
devourlng eiemeut consumed every house in the two
blocks intervening between the treets and
Main and Second streets and those on nearly half of
the block north OF olive Here its rayages we're stayed
in this part the city Before the proaress of The
flames could be arrested 1t found necessary to bow
up one houses near the corner o. MARKET and
Second street and in doing at least three persons
killed The fragments of one of their bodies were
found on the opposite side OF The street one Wal
nut, on Second street. and the thigh bone foot
belonging to another the foot OF Walnut street
some two or squares from where the houses
blown up These with the body of the boy burnt on
the leyee. make four that at the police Office
The military hremen. aud citizens to form pro-
ces sion and bury them sometime during the day
We will now 20 farther south TO the foot OF Elm
street, where the fire made another Judgement. and
SPREADING disgonaly through tins block II swept up to
Main, and down to Spruce, distance north and south
Of two squares. and crossing Main, IL carried nearly
eyeryhDg before nearly to Third etreet three
squares to the west VI its starting point At Main
street the flames crossed Elm and consumed fourth
Of the block north of Elm and OF Main streets
FROM the foot Of Elm, its southern side to Second
street distance Of two squares not house is stand
ing BY this dire calamity, hundreds Of families
made homeless. and many who wore in afluence are
reduced to poverty
south Market and the Town Hall were on fire at
one Time but by great oxertions of a few persons
present they were tayed.
Nearly every pane Of glass in the windows for half
square distant non the Market and Second
street were broken by the conclusion at the time of
che blowing up OF the building at that point
The police arrested and confined in the iau and en-
1abo,Ee nearly tfty persons Tor stealing at the Are
There various rumors atoat relauy. To tho ios,
Of different persons but many Of them without FONDA
tom and yet two three OF old ana valued citi
gems we believe have lost their lives and no doubt
many are lost who will never be inquired after or
thought ofsrsnt of whom there many on the
boats and In city.
The extent Of the con8agratop, from its beginning
70 its termination, takes in almost the whole Of