New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-09
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! DISASTROUS FIRE-Sir Large Commercial Houses
Destroyet-Loss Quarter Aiuon-At past II
O'Clock yesterday, fire broke in upper story
wholesale and liquor house of Messrs Lusk Co..
large double building. running through from Fulton Front
in the block between Gravier and Common streets
From the best information could obtain the fire originated
accidentally through the carelesness nexperence
who engaged in bong Misunderstanding from the light
used in sealing the bottles and Communicating with the rap
ofghtnns, the brandy which exposed The bother had
barely time make his when the aes enveopius
casks, caused them explode with loud and in
another the building perfect furnace of flame,
becing and roaring like volcano. The fire spread to the
right and left and hal assumed disastrous proportions long
fore the fire department reached the ground which they did
with their usual The fire engine. the
Young America being stabbed within stones throw of the
fire. brought ont and to work speedily possible
but owing explosion of her valves and the expen
dure of time necessary repair it,
vice the critical uncure, though she ervceabe
afterwards.
The building the Gravier side of Lusk Co..
pied by Messrs Wheeler Forsa the copper and sheet
iron workers; the building side,
pied by Messrs Waldo Hughes hardware ship
chandery and the large double building that siding
Common occupied by the wholesale commits
sion house of Messrs R. W. Adams Co,
Lusk Co.'S being totally destroyed with all their
In the meantime, the flames had communicated
the large double grocery establishment Messrs
F. Cochran Hail. running through New Levee and
of
Co.. also totally destroyed with all their So
fierce was tfe that eex timber was consumed
nothing remained bnt smoking piles of bricks and oering
walls Most of the had large stocks Of goods in them
particularly those of Messrs Lusk Co.. R. " Adams Co.,
and A. F. Cochran Hail. each of these firms occupying double
hr;,Ii, ~ ,r.o hi ,d; s with o,a,;,rs h..,r. -
number of other firms who occupied the second stories of
the fated buildings may be added to the Of the sufferers,
wit: Messs George d. Hte Co.. steamboat agents, over
yta,ar Eors,,1I,s Msss,s .w;s s,o,, & ~ +aomhoo,
.ts .r r - & r. u. +ta y,r orsars ana ra;ro n;,
- CEo 80. p w a. = r. -, - ,, ,.
,i,Io po,ha.s r-.b.,.s ,nd Nv 4, poI1o
. ; a ,e, it to- ,, 80, n Ch G. IN
T Iar. GROCERY bonsastba of Nassrs eaton 9 uendar
- ~ 80 "a ac ', r ro,ha l. r1Ii,s ~ ~ ,e ~
p;s,oo e. ci,s ~, to ohor o,rad ,hor 60 :.
the fact that he building were extra nl, and ar
D. D., NJ, It.; A., - - ,t, 5 h,;., ' .+ ~.
3 | - a - H., ;,;sn, os his s-id h h ne ,;Idts
how hv via, . ,eame nraonion and e,nonIf
ue if not extravaganza on his part in having the building
put expensvey and sodly II is his critcse
he disposed any rate entitled the thank
at the different citizens whose saved by his
perty his example building will followin.
ct hereafter Though grocery saved
their contents damaged by the water thrownBscoe
n Smms stock being badly damaged from the roof of the
ye | building being burnt
Other buildings vicinity exposed great peril
Il passing were, through baptism exertion
ID of the fremen and of their the roofs
them The large house of Messrs Dyas Co., sidin
on crarier street, from New evee to Fulton caught lire the
# times but was saved by its occupants and neghbos will
buckets Mr. Daniel Edwards and his men, of the ndiacer
foundry, rendering noble assistance our tend COL X
hcApn of the firm of Dyas It Co.. did not his labo
nn long after the ethough was labor OF love in dis
se pensing the wer "ch comforts and the weeds % smoke
the friends and hemen who had with their supplies of water
put stop the smoke in which the building had
er ingy endeaSored to indnlge
m We ~ " fa' ' e o"D @ s o' p'
II ucul" IN regard 10 he losses Oh me dhefent Ionses'
amounts OF oa the esnma'es as 10 the entre loss
ey ,no'e mos. capable o luasns geheras conferred "po
AZ s-ooooo-mo''s covered oy insurance.