The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-23
THE HEALTH OF THE CITY-MEAsUREs TO ENFORCE
THE LAW.

THE HEALTH OF THE CITY-MEAsUREs TO ENFORCE
THE LAW.
day or two ago sad scene presented itself at the
Of South and james streets It was reported
the City Inspector, that there quantity of
lying in rotten state in store there and that two per-
in the building had died Of cholera On examina-
ton found that three stories Of the building
filled with damaged, rotten corn, perfectly black, and
smelling in the most horrible In a room adj
joining this stuff lay and his child dead, and his
wife SICK who encein,e. The deceased had all the
marks of death from cholera. 1t was a melancholy
spectacle. The City Inspector had the entire of this corn
amounting 10 about 1900 bushels. removed immediately
to Barren Island by the steamboat the pur
pose Of removing all the oal of the city On the same
day a arrested in Eighteenth street. for
boiling bones contrary to the ordinance of the
ton. He detected in the act and the smell the
premises is described by the officers intoerable The
police have the power Of arresng on the spot and with
ordinances ofhe city, but they very slow in the per-
Torrance Of their duty.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE THIRTEENTH STREET--A MAN
BURNED DEArH.-At about half past six o'clock
Saturday evening smoke to issue from the
building the Metropolitan Steam Planipg and
Saving Als,n situated in Thirteenth street between
Ninth Tenth avenues about six minutes after
wards the entire concern envcloped in flames the
simultaneous appearance Of which from the front Thir
teenth street weh street totally paralyzed
The action of the Fire Department in their
efforts to extnguhh them Heaps of timber and high
piles Of shavings lay around in every direction This dry
and nfammable material caught fire like finder and the
propristors Of the establishmcnt-Messrs Bushnell
Wesnot only lost the entire property In the yard but
would be consumed, AS the flames progressed large
pile Of Georgia pine made ready for flooring plank caught
fire several times from the excessive heat and the safety
Of the surrounding buildings frequently threatened in
consequence but the exerons Of the remen in the end
succeeded in circumscbpg IL TO the premises and thus
slaypg the fear the inhabitants around All the val
tle la n tnta md
nothing remained ut O'Clock yesterday evening
except the smoking and charred stumps the various
lures. During the progress Of the flames, named
william Harrison, employed In the yard, rushed into
Of the stables attached in a humane endeavor
to save span Of mules which he knew were con-
fined there. The noble fellow succeeded in rescuing
Of the animals and then had to rush out leaving
the second to its fate Harrison bstered from head
to foot owing to the scorchng heat in the stable and
when out he tainted the neck and wristbands of
his shirt and the waistband Of his pants forming regu-
lar cipcture of flame around him He taken to Ills
home No GAL Hudson street. by police officers Barnett
and Hammond, and Immediately attended TO by Drs.
Seaman and Proudfoot; but after lingering in great
fellow died Coroner Ives held an inquest on the body
and the jury returned verdict that the deceased cac
to bis death by being burned at the fire in West Thr-
teenth street on Saturday evening" while endeavorng
to render assistance in saving his employers property
About the same time Mr.. John Hogencamp, Of Engine
Company No AZ badly injured In his face aud arms
and had TO be taken TO his home the of Four
tcenth and Ninth The entire EACH
ing from 254 to $50 Thirteenth street destroyed and the
oss roughly estimated at sixty thousand dollars 1t is
said that Bushnell Wells are insured In various
offices up to the amount of thirty thousand Captains
Carpenter Of the Fifth Turnbull Of the Eighth Steven
SON OF the Axteenth Maynard Of the Nineteenth with
Assistant Captains Baxter and Duryea and various pla
toons Of mS the premises rendering
every way its fortunate that the and round
are mostly used iron founres and for storage hard
ware az II they hcaped with timber, this sudden
fire must have ended In terrible conlagraton. The
engineer employed in the yard lost hundred dollars
wor,h of tools lie left the premises ut six o'clock ex
actIy with half dozen Of his fellow workmen they went
soxn I'M he rofN
to have drink aud In three minutes the whole concern