New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-17
GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER, NJ H.
THIRTY-TIVO BUILDINGS CONSUMED.

From M1nrhctr fUtrtcd1-fsfffds
Sunday morning occurred another and the most dis
astrous connagra;ion which visited this city The
fires were nearly half mile distant from each other,
and one broke out while the other was at ts hight Inc
bell which startled our citizens from their sleep and
called them the first couagration had not ceased It's
peal, when its tones were flung out more wildly upon
the night AIR, announcing another eons 10 me
central business portion OF the cry The flames are
now exrguhed but halt OF one OF our largest mills is
in ruins, and hundreds Of people thrown out OF em-
poymont; and half of one OF the most popqlous
squar which perhaps, as much business was done
as Oh any in the city, is covered with backened and
smoking ruins. The calamity however falls chiefly
upon those thrown thus suddenly out of employment,
and upon those who at a moments warning were rem
dered hOuseess The mill was OF course insured and
the buildings on the street mostly so.
THE FIRE All THE MILLS.
The first fire took in the south end oil No. nlh on
the Manchester Corporation az 20 minutes before
o'clock II took in the earding-room. The Waterman
was passing through tie room with the lantern IN his
hand and the bottom dropped off and rolled into pe
ofroping which Immediately took hire. lie attempted
10 exuguish before giving The alarm, ana the alarm
was not given until the flames had reached the ceiling
The water from of the hydrans was soon brought
TO bear upon the fire and il somewhat checked but
three other hose were put on which so reduced the
head that the fire gained again. The water was drawn
from the canal at the time TO permit the workmen 10
put in the connection with the No. mill on the
Amosbeag. The Engine Companies were promptly on
the ground and PLAYED manfUlly, but il was round I'M
possible to arrest the progress of the tire, and 1t was
not checked until about O'Clock
The mill is about 500 feet long, and about $50 feet
of II we've burned, being onehat ct the mil, ana COM
prising aboat one-quarter of the machinery OF the
manufacturing department Of the corporation. The
lcss is between 100000 and S2Jo,0Oo, and the mil
was of course insured.
This mil is part of the same corporation Is the
Print Works but its partial destruction does not al
sect mate rally TIE operation of those works. The re-
naming half of the mil can be put a operation III
short time as the wheel though under the part burned
was so protected by arch taat II IA not apparently
=: No los fran Waterman
agent Of the Manchester Mills from whom we OBTAIN
the above Particulars that without doubt the portion
of til mill destroyed will be Immediately rsDuhl.
rag FIRE ELN-sT.
THO Fire Denartlnent we're al at tbs Manchester
Miils and some enc top OF the burnlng MID 70,
tod the osowo that ths,e was nTe "a the sissel'
ard soon the bell confirmed TIA iact. III wac Hgvee
n When FIST sc1yered L was IN small btnioine
between Manchester aAd Hanoyer-sts. opPoss Dr9w s
a CoDsy's psint-shop, In me rear o. E.m-A i ,S
flames inmc 5iately communicated - ADJOINING Duiio
ius snrf aiding hi they reached Mznchesterst. on the
one side Hanover the other, with Elm on tne
west end, extending cast as fa1 az me hunuei'
Rack or Mancsester.st., and AcCrllhss DacKsihui
saop on Hanoyer-sI.-ibe Barnes Puiney BLOCK ana
POET Ofice Building CT the corner Of Elm and Hano
vtr-sts. only being saved.
The buidir 90 burned were, with the exception OF
Rs, monds and j. n. Browns OF wood, and so quici
were the flames accomp Fishing thelt WORK. a' Ut sun
X rae the ruin was completed
Il Itwould be impossible to give a correct list OF tn
II families rendered hOuseess III the short space oil W.
i hours. -
II The loss on the south side of Manchester-st, wa
II sieht. The Franklin House, owned ny j. Mitchell
II and leased 70 Maiden Il Avery, was injured 10 u
amount OF about $500, part Of the roof being 5urne
badly and the paint CHARGED. Insured IN Metropolta
II dtfurct) 81, 500. Loss to Msrden * Avery abou
II $500 chiefly BY water-no insurance.
III Had the Franklin House burned, nothing coul
have prevented, it seems, the whole square oounds
n by Chesnut Menimack Elm aud Manchester ss
from fate as fearful az that now in ashes. The eng
neers seeing the importance OF this Stationed an e.
/ CINE commanding this part of tbs city.
III LIT OF those destroyed on E}m-st.-J. a. Pert.
| apothecary loss q, 600; insured s2,o00-hSldngs
| sured 81 200 in the Etna. ,-oa
n A. Branch, harness maker, loss estimated al COW
| | insured. rs
Lyman Raymond, grocer goods al saved, n lava.
III RAYMOND & Walker, shoe-dealers; goonS U.s. % -; -
RAYMOND Thomas, building loss 49, 80 '''''
~ 600: stock insored 81, 500; damage .ooo.
H. Batehede.r, hosiery, lOssi damage. @c'' s''O'
insurance. II, ,nos.Iv .avsd loss a,
= dsn,oa .hou. Al 600; insured $500 lsoHeh ComPan
NJ Witt boarding house In kaymonds Bloc
es W. 10y known es Putreys, owned BY D. Clsl