New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-17

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SEVERAL LIVES LOST $500 900 WORTH OF II
PROPERTY DESTROYED
Between the hours of one and two o'clock yes
terday morning destructive fire commenced
in the store of Mr.. E. ". Perry, No. 90 Maya
zine street, near hatcher. 1t originated In the
third story, a pot in which some soldering irons
had been heated having been left with hre IN !,
upon work bench The store was we'll stocked
with house-furnishing goods, but Mr.. Perry as.
sures us there was neither camphene nor oil
about the premises By the time the engines
had arrived the building was in a condition OF
homeless conhagration. And here we will re-
mark that we have been informed the alarm
was not given until some time after the fire had
broken out--that, in fact, the adjacent streets
and the sky were illuminated before q single
bell had struck This shows o great lack Of
vigilance on the part of somebody. The stores
adjoining, on the side towards Natchez street,
took fire. and several extensive tobacco establish
ments on Natchez, between Magazine and Camp,
we're involved in the ruinous conhagration,
which, crossing Natchez street, attacked the
large brick buildings in the rear of the Canal
Bank, and soon madeits way around that stately
edfce and came out again on Magazine street
Here the progress of the fire was stayed by a
W. de space or alley way, on the opposite SIDE
of which a bare brick wall presented itself
But it had carried complete destruction to every
building it had visited (some IL or LAY except
the Canal Bank, which had very narrow es-
cape, was on fire several times, and was scorch
| ed and blackened on nearly every foot of its
exterior.
| The most unfortunate and melancholy part Of
| this disaster remains to be told; the chapter
| of accidents the manning of body and the loss
| of life which seem to be inseparable from such
| occurrences and are necessary consequences OF
l tl,a how'd fhe int tlrRmeD
| Mr. Daniel Woodruff. an old and exempt
| fireman, formerly foreman of Mississippi No. 2,
| and President of the Exempt Firemen's Benev-
client Association, was crushed by falling wall
! at the corner of Magazine and Natchez streets,
| while in the act of warning his company to es-
cape the impending danger. He was taken to
/ the Arcade Hotel, where he died few minutes
| afterwards. Several others were severely in
4 jured in their efforts to subdue the flames Mr.,
! Mcleod, foreman of Mississippi No. 2, was ter
| ribly bruised in many places about the body
had an arm broken and one leg completely
| mashed his recovery is considered doubtful.
i Samuel e. Risk was severely bruised In the
breast and face, and Mr.. Wing6eld and Stephen
| O'Leary chief Of police, were slightly injured
4 And the casualties did not end with the confla-
grafton. Last evening. when nothing had been
left of those fine buildings except totterlpe
walls and smoking ruins, q man was crushed
beneath mass of falling bricks and instantly
killed. His body was extricated from the ruins
aud conveyed to the police office; it was diff
cult to establish his identity, but his name il
supposed to be James McDivit. There was {
report current at the time that two othe
bodies had been buried beneath the fragments
but this was not probably correct.
The following are the buildings burned, thu
entire loss reaching to within fraction 0
100000: r..
! uo,.a f,,rp;sb IN, - c+ora of nv n Wood perry