The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-10-20

owned In Edgartown owners of shin Rodnan
ioo' Asa Smith 40 whale; Edward Max6eId o0o
whale Iaber & Read 100 whale ; a. Ssaburv
rVo Whale joseph Wilcox 200 whale: David B.
OehPton and owners of ship Barnstable l2OO
whale, l35 sperm Perry Bronell los whale .
oeap.- eop Fisher $50 whale; in shed of B. b. Howard
sVVV - 4VVO whale owned chiefly bv him and
o"ners oi ship COwper. and the following per-
sons Capt, Cory of ship Parachute, Can't. West
o, o1 snip everley, Brown Il Wrightington, Isaac
D.. D. "es,, Jonathan Smith. Edward Cannon,
rhiiiP Odnnon and Mark B. Palmer's estate.
also Io,OOo lbs. bone of ship Parachute. and
100 bbls empty casks
The fire was not burning more than two bonrs
In Its height, the wind not blowing very fresh.
yet from the intensely combustible nature of the
niateriis out OF which the conaigration was
made, 1t swept with resistless fury and as if by
magic nearly third of million of property
away, In the above brief space
Not only the amount of property DESTROYED
put the loss to many Of our most worthy citizens
Is irreparabie, men whose all lay in the burnt
dlstriet and who had trihe if anv in
surance These sufferers have the fullest SYM
pathy OF the community and will receive, we
doubt not, substantial aid to enable them to re-
cruit their shattered fortunes.
The burnt district presented one of the most
singular spectacles this morning possible A
great portion of the area was literally covered
with the hoops of the oil casks as if a mower
had come in with his scythe and cut down an
iron harvest oil which the casks held was
running down in the cutters with man station
ed IN the drain to bail it out it came along.
The wharves, streets, side walks were one color
and covered with one substance-oil; men were
bailIng up the commodity from the dock and oil
casks were floating in the water.
The disastrous event should point one truth
and that is the insecurity of wooden buildings
In any district where oil is stored. If the wind
is high and The oil is once on fire, nothing can
possibly stop the flames, and substance of this
character should not be exposed u the possible
accidents arising from the firing of wooden struct
ures near it, or in that portion Of the city where
the shipping and the oil must be placed. In
former times, when the city smaller less
provision made in this respect-at present,
it is essential that some further security be adopt
ed for protection against fire.
We understand that Capt. Smith of the John
Il Edward sold and delivered his portion of the
cargo on the morning before the fire occurred.
The hull of this ship has been towed 70 HIlmans
railways, to be taken out and examined for re-
pairs.
As far as we hear, the amount of oil baed up
is from 300 u 500 bbls., and from 1000 to 1900
bbls., will be saved According to u careful es
innate the number Of hoops laying on the ground
in the oil shed of B. b. Howard is about 5000.
Casks of oil have been hnisted from the dock on
the north side of Wilcox & Richmond's wharf.
We are glad to learn that the books and papers
of contingencies were preserved by fire-proof
safes, in spite of the fearful intensity Of the
flames. the outsides being melted and much
warped that they required the use of bars and
hammers 10 open them.
On SAvED.-S pme persons saved much as
80 bbls., some 40 hhs. oil, from the late fire. by
scrapng it from the dbcks-Ithers who worked
in 20 npany have saved, at least in one instance,
100 bbls. Those who saved this oil We're men
who will be benefited b. the salvage, and the
generous decision of the owners, giving them the
larger part, is in everyway credit''ble to the
latter.