The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-13

works, which have lately been occupied by Mclean
X Wright as manufactory OF railway carriages
market, too, was placed in \ large square on the
street. The long itudinal tract between Lagauohe-
there street and The river il about 600 feet at Dali
house square. but it gradually approaches the RI
yer all the way to the jail, Of one side OF which u
forms the boundary.
The Hays House having taken fire, communicated
with the house directly opposite, on Notre Dame
street, but there it was stopped. Il also conmuni-
Gated with the square, which consisted Of wel-bult
stone houses, occupied by the Hon. Geo Motfas; 3.
Benjamin, ESQ.,; The mess houses OF the 10th and
artillery and the Military Secretaries office. 1t
then made clean sweep OF everything eastward
between the river and Lagauchet street, the lat
ter of which was untouched throughout its whole
length to Papincau road, with the exception Of
house or two in The centre, and few houses at the
corner Of the Papnsau road. From the square to
the Jail is . distance OF some three thousand feet,
more than half mile, and that space is traversed
by the following streets, viz Campoau, st. Nieho-
las, Tolentne, Wolfe, Amherst, Montcalm, Vista
ton, Panet Desalaberry, Voltigeurs, ST. Adolphus,
PapiDeau road, where is large square with
took the whole night to travel through this space
and it not till nine or ten in the morning that
it was checked at the st. ary'sfoundry. Had that
gone, the distillery Of the Messrs. Nelson must
have followed. The old Ordnance Office houses be-
tween this point and Dahouse square. which are now
standing, are those belonging 70 the widow Of the
late Mr.. Justice Reid, and Mr.. Nelson. Both these
are large stone houses, standing in gardens, and
perty destroyed, was large quantity of cord wood
IL the government wood yard, between 81. Mary's
street and the river
At one period on Thursday evening, great fears
were entertained lest the confagraton should return
westward upon Notre Dame street, in which case
the destruction would have been redoubled. Hap
PLY the wind continued throughout pretty steady
from its original point.
Throughout the day General Rowan, his officers,
and the soldiers under his command were most ac-
tive, first of ALL Of course, in preserving the proper
ty entrusted to them, and then in caring for that of
the citizens. The same thing may be said Of the
members Of tho Common Council; but at the same
time it is but truth TO add that many imputations
are made against that body, in consequence of the
short supply of water. This short supply owing
to the fact that the large tank at the Cotea Baron
had been emptied for the purpose of laying down
the new pipes of large calibre, which now being
distributed through the citya necessary business,
which, we are assured, is prosecuted with the great
est possible expedition We give the facts on both
sdes,. without venturing on opinion whether
the deficiency, which has doubtless contributed
greatly to the extent of our calamity, was or was
not more than coincidence of misfortune with de.
privation of the means of protection against it.
Many private citizens also reaoered good service.
Wenotced especially Mr. S. Gerard, the Hon. Geo.
Motfat, Mr.. Anderson, DR.. Sutherland, and Mr..
Leeming, who were useful at the General Hospital.
Others. no doubt took active part elsewhere,
who did not come under our notice To the iremen
every praise ia due; working under 80 hot that
the thermometer hanging at office, in the shade,
judge of the exhaustion occasionod by labors that
lasted from nine morning to fully the same hour
the next The fatigue of this service doubtless
increased by the knowledge of its inefiiciency-to
brave men one OF the most harrassing aecompini-
ments of service.
x Las to the victims, they deserve the utmost COM
passion. The majority belong to the laborng class
es, some of whom have contrived, by years Of toll
and economy, to accumulate sufficient to purchase
little suburban residence, and some Of whom had
but few articles of furniture In either case, they
were compelled to save their few household goods
by hnsty flight to the nearest open ground from
whence they were, in many cases, obged to disodge
more than once. The suiierngs of some of them,
especially of the children, have been intense.
Anxious to take care of their property they reso-
lutely sat upon their goods, though without the
slightest shelter, with the sun beating directly upon
them. in many cases with little to eat and perhaps
oftener in great straits to procure water. FOrtu-
nately the night was so fine to make moonlight
bivouac by no means a serious hardship. We have
heard of several cases of coup de sotid caused by
exhaustipg labor in the heat but of no fatal case
There were also some births in the fields on this
memorable occasion. We have not yet made up
the lists which we are about to print below;
but at rough calculation we suppose there may
have been fourteen hundred houses burnt, which,
at seven inhabitants to each house, would give nearly
10000 without houses; the probability is however,
judging from the census returns, that as many rs
$1,000 must have bvouacked in the open air. We
cannot refrain from bearing testimony to the cheer
fulness with which the poor people bore their msor
tunes. The writer walked some miles through
heaps of furniture, piled each side Of the street,
between midnight and four o'clock in the morning,
and conversing with many of the people, he found
nothing like complaint or dependency. We have
also to notice the readiness with which the St. Johns
Fire Company with their engine, came in by rail-
way and steamer to assist our citizens, rendering
good service yesterday morning, in relieving the
jaded men of Montreal and also the offer on the
part of the ST. Hyacinthe Fire Company to come in
by special train.
Elsewhere we give an account Ct the steps taken
by the authorities to alleviate their sufferings.
The following is the list, well as we have been
able to ascertain, Of the various properties destroy
ed. We have doubtless made some errors of olns-
sion; but for obvious reasons, leave out proper
ties that destroyed rather than insert any that
remain. In the table, the occupant stands first,
then the proprietor and the sum affixed is the as
sessed annual value:--
ST. LAWRENCE STREET
p Laforce, Kurczyn, ISL Joseph Bcauleu. Labadie,
Maroe ao 5 Coins i forer @ Ro SI
Longpre, 27t Jas Adams do, 45i; Trauter, Guyil-
lorme 800; Miss Pepn, Leblanc 49, Hamelin do, 2A
BONN, BONN. 49, Dubord Tessier 80; Thos Burns,
do, 25i; Charles Tompkins Josiah Wurtele. SCI.
NIGNoNNE STREET
Tie Whole Burnt.
Lalande do, 13l; = Rochon do 16i; David, do Ill;
Chalifoux. do 49, Perrault do, 22i; O viau do,
loi; Forth, Demers 14l; Gariepy. J Homer. 81;
Roy. Roy 24l: Laviolette, do 22l; Rob Francis,
Dufault 81 Peltier, st Amour 81 Jos Grandbois Sa-
houIin 49, Louis Fourquette, Fourquette Ia; lean
sier 81 Lariyere do, 6i Larivere, IIudon, CO. Cas-
tonguez Castonguez, 24i Godette, Lscomte, 81;
LafIenchise do 10i; Widow ChaTtrand Charrano. 12i;
Rstelle do l2i; J.Mathieu, Lecomtc, 81: jos Ma
yeau. do. 9l; Lecomte do 25i; sabourn, do 2it;
saDscaltcr, Widow Rcard, 22l J. Ledoux, Gaushicr,
1a; A Lsrose do 81; A T Gauthicr 2i; tapparc, J
HOMER, 49, Desiardins, Forgete. 10l Fofyette,
do, 49, J Houle Houle 20i; ii Hemond Lamarcho 10i;
jean Barbe, do, HI Ninville. Ninvile. 12i Chas
Reliant do, ST. Lafamme do, 1871, Il Chabotte For-
tier 81; Laflamme d Rodier, 81; A Fournior G
Rodier, 81 yoyer, A Voyer 3ol.
ST. oATEARINE STREET.
The Whole IN the Herd
NJ LARGE Rur;ele, l2i; "A Lorei - l6i;
Thomas Hewitt Lavoie 32i; jas Doyle Roy, lSi J VI
Fapmeau Papneau 24l Boissy Caty III; Jos Dufort,
do, 14l Forge Caty. 81; Revere do III; Amabe Mar
tineau do 49,; Paqun. Paquin 81; Morenu p Pa
qu'n, 1a; Is Genercux do l4L: j 90 iroau. dc 14l;
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