Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-10-12
: conflagration in Buffalo.

Between two and three o'cloc this morning,
while the stormswhich prevailed Yesterday was
still raging wiihInuch violence, ire broke out
aboutthe centre of Byeps street between Fly and
Rock stEeetsg in some VOID n shanties with which
the street was lined; and before the fire depart
nent could reach the spot the flames, carried by
the wind, spread from building to building until
some dozen were ignited. The alarm speedily
spIead throughout the whole of the infected dis
trict, and remembering the rapidity with which,
ON Just such night about two years since, the
same neighborhood was reduced 10 ashes, the lie
habitants commenced emptylng their miserable
dwellings in a perfect panic. and the marrow
streets were rendered almost impossible by the
heaps household furniture, groceries liquor bar
res, and such like property hastily piled upin the
roads and on the side walks.
Asengine after engine came rushing on towards
1he scsne OF the conhagraton, the confusion was
increased; the piles of goods, and the crowds OF
women and children gathered around them, be-
ing scattered in all directions. From the charac-
ter of the neighbothood, each house was inhabi-
ted by several families, or thronged with the de-
PRAYED creatures who earn a miserable livelihood
by prostitution, and swarms of persons princi-
palIy females and children, stood shveIing in the
streets, without the means OF procuring even
\ temporary shelter.
| A large number of citizens gathered around
1 fearful that, homt The clustering condition oil the
| weather the flames would spread to Commercial
| and Main streets, and the efforts of the tremen
were principally directed towards contining them
\ 10 the space of which it was evident they were
| now the masters. Continuing along Evans street
10 the North the fire spread to Rock street, pro-
ceeded up Rock 10 the East as far as State street.
4 The space burned over, IS bounded by Tue Canal
A on the North, Slate street on the East Peacock
street ON sthe South, and Evans street oil the
i West: snreating, however; down below Evans
1 street some distance, towards the New Railroad
\ Depot Among the buildings entirely consumed
are the shop of Barton & Gilbert, iron founders,
corner of Lecouteaux and Fly Streets the loss on
hn,, 5SI000. ~ Inv ICES.
Il some large boilers, removed outside the building,
were uninjured; the carpenters shop of tie late
i John Grissm, on the opposite corner OF the same
4 streets, building owned by his widow, which was
i insured, with tools, for $500; stock saved; the
! grocery of Thomas Dolan, corner of Peacock and
i Evans, building insured for $1,000, stock uninSu-
red; loss about $1,000; Cowan's stables, corner of
i Rocn and Evans, running through TO Canalj loss
about $1,000, not known if insured Grlffith's sta
II bles on Rock street. loss about $1,000; new brick
A on the corner of Rock and Evans, owned by Geo..
Il Ream & Co., Kept as a grocery no insurance on
| goods; building insured for SlOOOj loss S25Uu.-
Brick building on Rock street, above Lecoulteaux
owned by Mr.. Lowering; occupied byJ. Lane, sad
Il dIer; goods saved; building insured for $1,000
Stable on State street, owned by w. Sou meIvlllr;
insured 500; loss about $4,000. In addition to
these. several brick aud wooden buildings were
Il consumed, numbering in all about one hundred.
The brick block on the northwest corner of
4 Rock and Evans streets was much damaged, but
was saved by the exertions OF the Eremen. 1t was
owned by Mr.. Piper, of Lewiston, whose loss Is
about $500, covered by insurance, and NJ Morgan
& Freeman, grocers, whose loss is about $500, un-
: insured The building was insured for SS007, and
damaged about $4,000. 90 .s7al eHa
The fire has destroyed several ofthe worst de-
scriptionof houses, by which the neighborlood
has been so long infested, and it is 10 be hoped
that this second purifying of the place will be eli
fectunl. The authorities now have it in their pow
er TO make an entire clearing out of The dens in
that partof the city, and it should be done. The
. talkthat sucha neighborhood IS necessary evil
in city all nonsense; bat if it be true let it be
driven somewhere out Of sight, and not be suffer-
? ed 10 exist in q 1eighborhood which must be Ire
S quented by respectable citizens. The completion
: OF the new depot makes the property valuable for
= business purposes; let it be elfeotually cleared
8 now when the opportunity offers.
: So far as we have been enabled to ascertain,
}. the space burned over covers about four acres
S The insurance on the whole property will not be
over twenty-five thousand dollars, and The loss is
probably IN the neighborhood Of $4,000. This,
however, is only rough calculation. Great praise
is due to the ire companies in general BY the we'll
: directed exertons of Cataract Engine Co.. No. /,
Gilberps soap factory on LecouIteauz street was
saved, nndthe flames in that direction were check
ed. The whole department did their duty eff
: GENTLY and fnithfully.-B4faIo Com. AdUertiser
Of the 5th inst.