The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-02-09
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New ORLEANS, Feb. 5th 1854.

news of i terrible disaster that had
just happened at the Lake end of the
Carrolton Railroad. During the ear.
Her hours ofthe morning the sky was
lit up with glow which betokened q
fire in that direction; our Ere bells
rang the alarm, the fremen ever
prompfrushed forth with engine, hook
and ladder to battle with the flames
wherever they might be; but after
wandering over the Eastern and Nor
thern portions Of the city, searching
in vain Cor the fire, they returned to
their respective quarters, only to hear
the news, that the steamer Georgia,
which had just landed at the Railroad
pier, had burned to the waters edge and
involved in its own fate, tho lives Of
from forty to sixty human beings
The particulars Of this conAagration
are familiar to you, and need not re-
peat them, and | only mention the
fact as a prelude to another conHagra-
ton which took place at the city
wharf at the foot Of Julia street, carly
yesterday morning, involving an equal
loss Of life, and ten times the amount
ofproperty, which was destroyed by
the former. The Telegraph and the
city papers have already given you
the full particulars Of this last great
fire, but as pass along it may be in
teresting to your numerous readers, to
view the scene as it presented itself at
the Levee yesterday evening when |
last visited it. The river in the vicin-
ity of the "burnt district was filed
with floating barrels, boxes, bales, cot
ton and burning or charred timbers,
which glided here and there
u dozen or more small boats filled with
men picking up, hauling over, or
throwing aside whatever came in
their way. The bulls Of the Saxon
and Natchez were sill burning or
rather smouldering, and now and thcrS,
long slender streaks Of fame leaping
from the mass Of blackened ti,nbers,
bales, &c, all of which we're so low
down in the water, that flames seemed
to come from the waters wherein they
|loated. The fire engines bad all cea-
sed their operations and gone to their
several quarters, but the throng upon
he Lcvee near the scene of the fire
Gould be counted by thousands. And
such scene, thank God is not often
ooked upon, even in this land of
steamboat burning and life killing dis
listers. 1t lacked but one feature to
ender the picture horrible; lacking
hat is was merely interesting. No
'orpses, burnt, blackened, or torn to
pieces were there to remind one OF an
awful explosion and fill up the hor-
'ible, as | have said; but here were
thousands upon thousands ofsides and
Shoulders partly burned and still
to give one an idea Of the
ind Of freight that was on board Of
ONE Of the unfortunate boats. Scat
cred far and vide over that portion Of
he Lcvee, were half burned merchan-
ize of all kinds, and Of every quality !
Fork and potatoes, corn and coffee,
ry goods and qcet goods, silks and I
atins, halls and screws, cotton bales
nd cottonnades, sugar and salt, mo- c
asses and merinos, iron and brass,
roken crockery and roasted cocoa
uts, and many more articles too num- {
rous to mention, lay in promiscuous I
lies, or were scattered zee Ell la" in =
lost delightful confusion. Among /
nd over these ruins, the multitude,
qually promiscuous in the character !
'tics, and colors, pushsd and leaped
nd ran like so many interested per-
ons, all in pursuit Of the same object.
'utchy dug among this heap Of Gin
ers, Africa pulled way at that pile Of {
ags, Ireland cursed and swore with :;
imself or herself, while Yankee stood .
r walked leasurly along, coolly eye ,
g the whole, as if calculating the
profits and loss," or making guess =
the "main chance" Thus within :
bout seven or eight hosrs, seven
eamboats and property valued at a
bout 100000, which on Friday
ght, came up to- the Levee from 4
oht or ten different States. were des- I