Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-26

Fearful and fatal trophes-SereraL Lives Lost
The Dead and Suffering under the RuinS-Ld-
naentabIe and agOniZing scenes and S1TeT7ngS-5O
Il 60 human beings cr1tShed-Sl50, 200 1cOrth Of
property dcStrOyed-Gredt and sad ercitement
From the New Orleans Delta, Sept. a.
Last evening about halfpast o'clock fire
broke out in the fourth story of the wholesale Ii
Guor store of Karsteindiek Co., l0l and l03
Tchoupitoulas street, between Lafayette and GIrod
streets Before a few moments the flames spread
with fearful rapidity and destruction. and shed
grand and awful glare over the entire upper sec
ton of the city In short while the IRE rushed
through these spacious buildings back to Commerce
street and, now, here fearful occurrence which
| we dare not dilate upon, took place.
! We were present standing on the lower or west
| ern corner Of Commerce and Lafayette streets.
| Ioud explosion was heard-the liquor barrels yield
ed TO the devouring eement-a frightful crash fol
| lowed An upper portion, one story of the build.
ing of the lower store, 10l, Of Messrs Karstendiek
| & Co came down by the force of the explosion or
| the building next it, three-stOry one said to bt
! that of Evans 4 Co.. -four and commission mer
! chants on the corner of Lafayette and Tchompi
| toulas streets.
By tins wall falling it carried in the corner store
| roof and hurled the outer side wall ton Lafay
cite street, of Evans Co., to the ground with cleo
| trical velocity. How we shudder to report tn
scene From $50 to 200 persons were near around
and in this building of Evans * Co. some fremen
some Iaborers some policemen, some merchants
and Others young and old, of our citizens.
From 25 to 80 laborers, firemen and others, wer
engaged in removing and rolling the barrels of Ou
and merchandise out of this store, as there was n
fire within it at the time. Previous to the fall Of tn
wall standing on the sidewalk and in the middle G
LAFAYETTE street were from $50 to 200 persons an
when the crash was heard and the walls gave way
their CONSERVATION was truly dcpOrable To beholC
Not less than so or GO were buried in the ruins.
The flames ragged in broad and fierce grandeu
from the exploded liquor barrels, and a scene
ruins. if by dramatic magic, so sudden was tn
| whole calamitOus change of things, appeared amid
profound silence of the awe-stricken beholders. II
/ heat was intense, and when the scattered popua(
returned TO the spot of disaster one of the noble
. ! and praiseworthy examples of bravery on the pa
of fremen and police, citizens, young and old. toe
Mace that we behold. Regardless of the score
inc elements and the dangers of surrounding tote
( mo walls the firemen grandly went to the rescue
the sufferers. whose grOans of agony were heal
from beneath the pile of bricks and rafters.
Every effort was brought to bear by fremen al
oIcamen and citizens to relieve the sufferers, al
= as one by one each body was brought out the se
, oneranon thereof was loudly cheeTed by the locke
Z on What a sight! There we 0eheld friends WI
g their hands and arms STEPPED IN the blood of t
: wound There we beheld the stiff corpse but
r moment before the agile, active. living body. H'
: rible sad sight!
4 II would be impossible to say how many persO
: are missing and buried beneath the mass OF run
d and IT would be unkind to the feelings of many
q the reported lost ones friends now living IN Q
Is civ or ON Measure tours, to give the least VIC
he that would imply death was at their door.
y The number of persons slightly hurt would
= | our columns.
le The loss by this fire in a pecuniary sense
y this is the least consideration in our MIND at
On writing will be about Sl500O0, Of which one-th
\; is insured.
IL Up to Saturday afternoon fourteen dead Doc
had been taken from the ruins. besides number
er persons who were so seriously wounded that Il
- must die.