New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-10
SANDWICH ISLANDS.

PARTICULARS OF THE FIRE IN HONOLULU
The following account of the fire is from the PoySt
sian Of July IL
On Saturday, tfe 7th inst. a. about o'clock PM,
fire b. oke out in Honolulu o. more destructive char
acier than any that has previously occurred here
TIE and excitement very great az once, for
the unusually combustibe materials of the Varieties
Ibeatsr, where the conhagraton commenced, gava
almost stan notice of the dsas,e. for miles around,
by affordpg more brlliant hight than We ever re-
4 ernber 10 have seen on any other occasion OF the
kind.
Tie ,hea.er was discovered to be on FIRE within few
minutes Of the time mentioned and before lOi O'Clock
that odfCe the Police Station House, Mr.. COINS
store the store OF Ah.Fopg, Gilman any, and that Of
MessIs. Watts * Co were reduced 20 sshes, rather
they were eveled with the ground, for the fame and
BE- st continued TO need good looking after I'LL O'Clock
in the morning OF Sunday. MIR. Dmond's store, buik
of stone did good service in Stopping the spread Of the
DESTROYING element. A wooden structure, no ycver,
belonging TO IT, ard connected with its makai side, wax
pulled down, in order to cut of the communication
with other buildings that were 10 great jeopardy Iha
lew wooden fesce round the Bethel Chapel had also
TO he laid fiat to the building II guarded. The
latter was at orc time in uch imminent danger that tn
worthy chaplain gave the building up for lost, and
caed to the people who in the belfry gallery to
come down and their hives. The door nearest 70
where the re was rsgins was very much charred WIN
the exneue heat. Had the chapel actually Snlted
the probability is that the tapping element woud have
destroyed every building large and small between
Kirg.st and the water side.
Capt Shows store, the Merchant Exchange Hotel,
the Post Office and Bank Buildings, and last, not
least our own establishment had very narrow es-
cape indeed. Sparks were lying seward IN every
dir, elton with the wind ard Get fire 10 combusti
bks in a ward so far removed "a the premises OF
Messrs j. Robinson Co. i, required great eAertons
to prevent several roofs from ignng. Had the trade
wind been blowing with its usual force, II Is hard
10 imagine how any exerions could have saved what
nav be called the heart Of the town. We have never
seen FIRE ia Hon Lulu where people ofa sorts worked
so well. Ii would be nyidious to point out any par
t'cuar person or company f en the natives, who
too often har back such asoJs, behaved brave
w. encouraged doubt by tho presence Of their two
his nest Chiefs.
Ire notice printed by the Deputy Marshal and pub
lished in another column wll expaio, fret that the
fl WIS probably the of an ncendiary AMI next,
that le6 YVES committed in tie hurry and confusion
of removing wha, the stores contained. For our own
Part we should not be sorry To hear that the RIGGING OF
lie e-be declared to b., for all inteots and pur
poses equivalent to declaring the city uader martial
law. A few summary punishinents would teach ma
tiyes and foreigners to dread, il they cannot be
LrUue ht to despise the itiurng of people In al the
amaz6mCrt and distress Of immediate ruin.
The estimated damage OF the fire amounts to about
Ss5 600.