New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-24
THE GREAT FIRE IN W-oRLEANs.

In TuE TRIBUNE Of Tuesday last we published tee-
craph dispatch giving an sccoun; of great fire that broke
out on the morning of Thursday March i6. We now give
the psrticusrs as we find them in The Nc Orleans True
D,itQ OF the same day:
FIVE III NDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH of
PROPERTY CONSUMED!
Retween and o'clock this moroing IRE broke our
in The house furnishing OF f. Wood Perry NO os
Magazine St which, before was subdued resulted IN
an immense destruction OF property and tho INC .,
least one human being All the buildings IN the neigh
borhood of the large four story brick establish
mep,s occupied by heavy desers in the staple articles OF
our city commerce and many of them were consumed
togethr with their entire contents, the loss OF property
is estimated exceeds half million OF dollars soon s,'er
the alarm given the hremen with tner wohtoa a,ac
ry repared 10 the spot and did all that they possibly
could 10 check the spread OF the destroying eement
Their efforts were. however for long time unsucce'sa
for the flames rose and rioted as they were lansa oy
Gepds into a fury wholly uncomfortable. great Poruoh
of the contents Of Mr. PeIrys store was OF highy IN
aammable character which the water thrown by the
fire engines had scarcely any effect
From Mr. Penys store the fire communicated to that OF
Burrows & Ostend No. e. Magazine st. This was q
qnor establishment with very large stock on hand ana
when the casks burned and the spirits became larry W
niteJ the column of flames which from was tern
fcally grand Thereby impetus was given 70 the
march Of the fire fend and the large tobacco est@Dsn
mel,s in the the rear of IT, fronting on Natchez st. were
soon on fire. Crossing NatcheZ st. the destroying eis
ment ef pathway II cbaned and smoking ruins around
the rear the Canal Bank and again came out to Nag
aZine 81. O., 4,
Thus at the same time buildings were burning with the
utmost ury on both sides Of the bank and II IL indeed
markable that that far famed financial institution Wa
snyed Then on and on down Magazine st the flames
held their " ay till Of the Oldest Embellishments on
that antle horoghfare in ruins Besides the
stores specially mentioned there were destroyed
the large shp ohandery establishment Of Delagrave
& Co No. II Magazine 1t Morphy & Nevius's auction
store just below the Canal Bank, on Magaznest n %.
Sykes & Co. auction store. Magazine at IL. NJ Barlow
g. Co. wood and willow warehouse, Magazine st. y bur
gen furniture store Magazine st The following named
establishments were destroyed Natchez st. On the
south side, Sosthene & Thomas liquor store Price,
Walsh & Co, tobacco dealers store; "A. l.. Addison q
Co. company commission merchants establishment;
Head & Massey commission merchants establishment,
No IS; F. Poursine Il Co coffee and foreign produce
brokers' establishment On the north side, the large store
of C. l. G. b. Late dealers in manufactured tobacco.
The buildings and contents Of course mostly coy
cred by insurance Our inquiries lead Us to believe THAI
the insurance offices and agencies in this city will lose
something like the hereinafter SGT down; The diner
ent Offices for which e. e. Lathrop agent $4,000 Gro
scent Mutual Insurance Company $4,000 Home Mutual
Company s43 600; Louisiana Mutual tnew Company
$4,000; Sun Mutual supposed to be about $4,000 Do
iaware Mutual $40 600; Orleans, $4,000 London and
Liverpool 5000; Tennessee Marine and FIRE. eioo0
The Roy al Company and the PROVINCIAL insur
ance COMPANY lest nothing Jarnes large whoiesne dry
goods establishment door to whore the fire termi
mated on Magazine insured in the Royal lnarsnce
Company.
We regret to add that besides the large loss Of property
above euumer ated the falling Of wall at the corner o.
Mogezne and Nstchez sts killed Mr.. Daniel Woodruff,
an Old and worthy exempt member Of Fire Company No
? and severely injured number Of other persons
Anopo those injured was Bic Mcleod foreman Of No 2,
who had one Of biz and Of his legs broken
laborer whoe could not learn, was also severely
wounded.