Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-05-24
From last Fridays Evening Union.
Tremendous COnl1ayrntion :!
IN ST. LOUIS.
% STEAMBOATS, BURNEDi
SEVERAL SQUARES IN ASHES
'. Loss of LifeU

In our morning edition, we gave what
OF interest we were able TO collect. rel.
alive TO the conflagrntion which has
laid in ashes large portion of ST. Louis.
We also promised to give our readers,
in our evening issue, as detailed an &C.
count as it was possible TO collect; bu,
10 get at anything like full! and accu-
rate Statement, of the amount of prop.
eriy destroyed. or number Of lives lost,
is not within the range Of possibility.
We con only follow the general range
of,he fire, without going into details
We begin by stating that the point q,
which the fire frs, started on shore,
was al the corner Of Locust street and
the Levec--ihe corner house, and three
buildings above il. fronting the Levee
were destroyed; the flames then crossed
Locust, a1d swept every house with
one exception) in the blocks fronting
the Levee and Main street, and extend.
ing from Locust street southwark TO
Chestnut street, a distance of three
squares. Al Chestnut street, il turned
up and crossed over to the next block
south, ut the junction Of Commercial
Alley with this street, and from the 81.
/ ley to Main, and down TO Market street
burning all except two buildings at the
corner of Market street and Com. alley.
Al the junction of Marke, and Main
streets, the flames erossd diagonally to
the Market Stree, House, and followed
both sides Of Marke, street, up 10 Sec.
md Street. Then crossing Main street
The flames again swept every building
from Locust TO Market, excep, a row
of four four. story fire proof buildings,
just below Locust street.
Passing up Pine, Chestnut and Market
streets, the devouring element consu.
med every house in the two blocks in.
tervening between the streets mentioned
and Main and Second streets, and those
or nearly half Of the block north of
Olive.
Here its ravages were stayed in this
part of the city. Before the progress
Of the flames could be arrested, il was
found necessary to blow up one or two
houses near the corner of Market and
Second streets, at least three persons
were killed. The fragments of one Of
their bodies were found on the oppo.
site side of the street, one near Walnut
on Second street, and the thigh bone
and foot belonging to another, near
the foot of Walnut street, some two or
three squares from where the houses
were blown up. These, with the
body Of boy burnt on the lcyee,
make four that are now at the police
office. The military, fremen, and citi.
zens, are TO form procession, and bury
them sometime during the day.
We will now go farther south, to the
foot Of Elm street, where the fire made
another Judgement, and spreading dag.
onally through this block, it swept up
10 Main, and down to Spruce street a
distance north and south oftwo squares,
and crossing Main. i, carried nearly
every thing before it, up very nearly
to Third street, three squares to the
west Of its starting point. At Main
street, the flames crossed Elm, and con.
sumed one-fourlh Of the block north Of
Elm and west Of Main streets. From
the foot Of Elm, up its southern side 10
Second street, a distance of two squares
no, house is standing. By this dire
calamity, hundreds Of families are made
homeless, and many who were in affiu.
ence, arc reduced TO poverty.
South Market and the Town Hall
were on fire at one time, but by great
exer,ions Of few persons present, they
were saved.
Nearly every pane Of glass in the
windows for half square dislan, from
the corner of Market and Second street
were broken by the conclusion at the
time Of the blowing up Of the building
at that point.
The police arrested and confined in
the Jail and calaboose nearly Fifty per-
sons for stealing at the fire.
There are various rumors sfloat rel.
aliveto the loss of different persons,
but many of them without foundation;
and yet two or three Of our old and
valued citizens we believe to have lost