The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-08-17
THE FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.
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Our city was visited yesterday by one Of
the most destructive fires that has ever &C.
CURED here. 1t broke out about III o'clock,
i'm the house No. 81, Tchoupitoulas street,
the lower stories of which were occupied by
w. 5. Wright d Co., and the two upper
stories by T.. j. Hart & Co., who also occu-
pied the adjoining building. Wright g. Co.
barely managed 10 save their books and pa
rers, when the whole building was in blaze.
BY this time several fire companies had ar
rived, but they were unable to get water, the
fire plugs being perfectly exhausted. From
some cause or other nearly an hour elapsed
before the water came. .,
In the interim tn. fire had spread with
fearful rapidly, ond had crossed Tchoupitou-
las street and extended back to Foucher
street.
The heat was, for couple of hours. so
intense that il was difficult for the fremen
TO remain at the breaks more than few mo-
ments at a time, aud several persons were
sun struck.
We were sorry, too, to see, towards the
close of the fire, a spirit of rovdysm mani.
tested by two com panes, which. is almost the
first Of the kind that ever stained the fair an
mails of our fire department
The flames speedily made their way into
The row of buildings on Magazine, between
Poydras and Lafayet occupied by The WELL
known houses of Martin, Owen g. Cobbs,
ShuItz, MADDEN g. Latting, Woodruff & Co.,
Parmele e. Bro, &c. The walls of these
buildings had been generally thought to be
fire proof, but they certainly did not deserve
that credit. Pork, lard, bacon, gunny bags,
liquor, rope aud suCt materials, when all in
flames at once, are strong tests of fire proof
walls, and these speedily failed. Fortunate
ly, they fell without iniuriag any one, and
gave greater facilities to get at the fire.
VIM. III. Cook & Co.'s store, at the corner OF
Tchoupitoulas and Lafayette SITS, and oppo-
site Converse 81 Co.'s large establishment,
was not so fortunate. The wall fell with a
tremendous crash, bsrying three persons in
the ruins They were all extracted, and we
heard that one of them had since died. We
did not learn their ames.
The flames soon crossed Common street,
and caught the house extending through to
Magazine street. Those on the upper side
of Lafayette street were also in flames, and
several Of those on the levee side of Tchoupi-
toulas street were burning. The fire ragged
with great virulence for fully five hours be.
fore it was subdued, consuming property valu-
ed at about a million of dollars. We append
list Of the sufferers by this destructive con-
fagration:
On the swamp side of Tchoupitoulas street
commencing at the corner Of Lafayette, a nc
running towards Poydras street, Converse &
Co., grocers and liquor dealers; Francke &
Danneel. western produce dealers; w. s
Wright g. Co., commission merchants; f.
Hart e. Co, dealers in groceries, drugs
chemicals, &C.; Keep, Bard d. Co, westerr
produce and commission merchants.
On the levee side of Tchoupitoulas, com
tnencing at Lafayette ST., w. III. Cook g. Co.
western produce dealers; Gordon d Foster
-four merchants; j. Hurley g. Co., commits
sion merchants; Haines g. Co., produce mer
chants; and E. NJ. Daley & Co., commission
merchants.
On Commerce street, in the rear of tn
houses just mentioned, N. Oyerton, commits
sion merchant and western produce dealer
stanton d. Co., ice merchants, and A
Thompson, western produce broker.
On the southeast corner OF Tchoufi toula
and Lafayette SITS, r. w. Milbank, commits
sion and forwarding merchant; and Charlie
Hanna, western produce dealers.
On Lafayette ST., Kerr g. Poincy, fou
dealers and commission merchants
On Lafayette ST., opposite Converse (
Co.'s, J. III. Savage i Co., commission mel
chants.
On the upper corner of Magazine aud La
fayette sts., two four story buildings belong
ing to Mr.. Florance, occupied by Beatty, Lis
gett g. Co., and A. w. Walker, commissio
merchants, and a rear warehouse occupis
BY ]. NJ. Savage g. Co.
On the lower corner OF the same stree
]. w. Stanton g. Co., shipping merchant
and in their rear on Foucher st., j. w. Ro
g. Co., commission merchants.
On Magazine ST., Martin, Owen q Cob
commission merchants; Shultz, MADDEN
Latting, western produce merchants; J.
Woodruff g. Co., commission merchants, $
Graham g. Buckingham, western produ
dealers; and Parme!e g. Bro, commissi'
merchants.
We have stated that the loss by this Fl
is estimated at a million of dollars. OF tn
about two-thirds was covered by insuranc