The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-02

Total. ,49O $23S, 800
The above is hastily made up recapitu-
lation. The entire loss is about $500, 900:
insurance about S25O,O0O. Among other
insurance companies who have sustained
losses are the following:
Humboldt, ST., 1000; Importers and Traders,
5000; National, 5000; United States Is 900:
Commercial, 5000; Hope, $500; Gebbard,
$500; Jefferson, 5000; Peoples, $500;
Standard, 5000; Fulton, $500; Ntna, Hart
ford, $500; Security, 10000; Adriatic, 2 500;
Howard, 10000; Knickerbocker, $4,000:
Homestead, l,50O; Arctic, 1000; New York
Bowery. 5000; Citizens, 400G; American.
5000; Hamilton, 5000; Manhattan, 2 900:
North American, 1000; Pacific, 1000; a
Philadelphia company, 5000; Commercial,
1000; Long Island, 1000; New York Fire
gers, 1000; St. Nicholas, 1000; Brooklyn,
$4,000.
INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE.
BY this calamity upwards of five humid
red men and women are thrown out of en-
ployment, and numerous mel chants and
manufacturers deprived of places wherein
to transact their business. Upwards of enc
hundred and fifty persons were also deprived
OF homes, and it was pitiable sight indeed.
to see women, early in the morning, rushing
half naked from their homes, with children
in their arms, and without place of shell
ter, but on account Of its close proximity to
the fire, the women and children were re-
moved to the engine house of No. 5, in Ann
street, where warm fire made them COM
paratively comfortable.
During the progress of the fire, before
daylight, the scene, witnessed from the nm
per stories OF the surrounding houses, was
awtully grand, and the fall of building after
building struck the ear like the DISCHARGES
OF ordnance. The scenes in the streets were
very picturesque. The frost was so intense
that huge fires had to be kindled in the mid
die Of the streets, at which the police and
firemen occasionally warmed themselves
Barricades were constructed at the several
entrances leading. to where the fire was IA.
ging.
had been levelled with the ground, was a
desolate one indeed. From the station
house to Gold street, and clean across to
Ann, there was, IN place of the buildings
standing the night before, but field of
smoking ruins, relieved only by six-story
structure on the corner, which had gallant
ly withstood fire and water, to stand alone
among the remains of its less fortunate com.
panions.
The sight was very singular one, to see
hundreds of firemen walking about, com
pletely covered with ice, but nearly all of
them were in this Interesting condition. 1t
seemed as if every particle OF water that
had got upon them had frozen. Macy of the
old firemen said that the EorAing was near
ly as severe as the one on which the great
fire of 1885 occurred.
The performance of the two steam en-.
gines, the Niagara and the Manhattan, was
highly satisfactory. Without them the fire
would scarcely have been subdued until it
had destroyed the entire block. While en-
CINE No. s was stationed in Ann street,
playing upon the fire, the wall of No. 70
fell, injuring the assistant foreman, John
Malone, livery severely. Several other of
the members of the company were also in
jured, but not seriously. The engine was
buried in the ruins.
VIM. Barnet, member OF No. 81 Hose,
was run over at the corner OF Broadway
and Murray street, and had both his legs
broken.