New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-14


The GREAT FIRE IN MoBME.-The following
description of the great confagration in Mobile
last Sunday morning, by which about forty
houses were burnt and loss of from $780, 900 to
$50 900 incurred, we take from the Advertiser
of the 18th inst
Our citizens were aroused at about o'clock
on Sunday morning by the alarm of fire, when
flames were at once discovered issuing from o
kitchen attached to small house on Conception
street, near Hunt, occupied by free woman of
color, and belonging to Mr.. John Bloodgood,
and the carpenters shop adjoining. The flames
spread with alarming rapidity, soon communi-
eating with new frame house, recently built
by Mr.. Badgett, thence making their way
toward Lpscomb street, taking in their course
several small wooden buildings, and thence to
st. Joseph street, carrying off the frame work
attached to Kilduffs pickery, and communi-
| eating with the buildings north Of Bloodgood's
factory. This large building soon became enve
loped in flames, as we're also the residences of
Mr.. james Kilduff and Robert Turner, on the
same square
While the devouring element was making such
Roadway in this direction, Thompson's Pickery
caught fire, and from thence the flames crossed
St. Joseph street, to the residence of A. H.
| Jewett, and the building adjoining, both be-
| longing to Mr.. H. Bright, which wers soon in
| Of the fremen, Zone company Of whom, we I'M
derstand, reached the ground before the alarm
bell rang,) the stores on Royal street, occupied
| by Martin, Pickett 4 Co., and Mr.. Champenos,
as well as Hollands cotton warehouse, must
| have shared the same fate. At one time the
depot of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany was threatened by sparks which were fly
| ing, driven by the wind in every direction.
| Great difficulty was experienced in obtaining
water, and the fremen were compelled to form
| a line and get supplies from the marsh east of
| the railroad. The number of houses destroyed
1 is variously stated to be from thirty to forty,
and the total loss from $4,000 to $60, 900. The
most serious aspect of the calamity is not in the
actual amount of property destroyed, but in the
number of families, most of them poor and in
dustrious people, who were thus at the dead Of
night, without warning, turned out of their
homes, many of them not having opportunity to
1 save their little effects. It is stated that not
less than sixty families were thus hurried from
their beds. Fortunately, however, no lives
| were lost, but q horse and two COWS, who were
surrounded by Gordon of fire, and could not
be approached, before their position was discoy-
cred, were burned to DEATH Their cries, as
the flames cracked about them, were piteous,
indeed
The burnt district was on Sunday visited by
large numbers of our citizens, and it presented
truly a melancholy spectacle. We are glad to
learn that shelter was promptly afforded to the
distressed families who were sufferers by the
fire Taken all in all, this was the severest ca
lamity of the sort Mobile has experienced since
the great confagration of 1889.
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| AN ALARMIsT. before last, about IL
o'clock, the citizens in the neighborhood of the
corner of Sixth and Market streets were aroused
: from their slumbers by the reiterated cry Of
:" Murder!' Dozens of heads were thrust out
of windows to discover from whence the sounds
proceeded. At length they were found to come
from the room of young man who lodged in
the immediate vicinity, and, simultaneous with
; the discovery, was a rush to his assistance.
, Roofs were scrambled over, balconies scaled,
, ladders sought for, and every device essayed to
enable the anxious to get speedily to the scene
of the supposed murder. At length the room
was entered, and the first object that met the
view was the young man clinging to the top oil
the post Of tall bedstead, still keeping up the
cry of murder. He was discovered to be in a
f sound sleep, and when taken down was trem-
bling like an aspen leaf. On being awakened
he said that he was dreaming that some ont
was seeking to murder him, and that he was
escaping from the roof by the gutter-spout
which was about to give way with him. Hi
dream was so vivid that it was some moments
after he was awakened before he could feel Ger
tain that it was not reality.