New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-25
THE FIRE AT MIR. cONGsRs FARM

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The exaggerated reports which reached us day be-
fore yesterday led to partial missatement Of the pa
,icuDas Of the deplora.e calamity the Hon. A. IL.
Cone-r's farm On Sunday The facts are these: Thos
II Patterson. the herdemsn, AID bis wife, the
first to disc the fire. being akenedby aloud noise
ss Of thunder He spraDg from his bed and to the
door leading TO the Sommer-kitchen in the rear end
opening the door, thick volumes of smoke rushed into
TIE apartment. He at saut the door, or at leass
sutposes ,hat he shut it, and returned hatily to his
room, having cried londly to the men in the rooms
overhe nd to save themselves and to the servantmad
who as sleeping sh the older childreno ION the second
floor After reaching bis osn room he broke ont or,e
panes Of Rl and let bis little boy TO the ground dis
taI,e of or feet, without much injury. The GER
van'mad brought only one Of the children down
with her, so Patterson rushed mp stairs aud
found bis remaining two children well nigh
suifocated with the smoke, which had now
pe,vaded the whole house. Before be could get them
down stairs he three times overpowered with the
I'm Ike biwelf, but finally reached the front door and
placed them safely outsde the burning house. His
vile who bad been confined the week previous, was
thea dragged by him through the bedroom window. as
ale too ad become unconscious, ana was too helpless
to walk. Patterson declares that up to this time he
could see no vesge of fire the north eide Of the
house, the loIg stretch Of house, woodshed,
piegrIy, and adjacent buildings which faced the
west. The resumption, therefore, is that the fire
commerce ed on the south and east sides, although
whence IL originated or bow caused one imagine,
fol in neither Of the kite had there beeD particle
Of fire al the time Of retiring the Saturday night.
| The house was originally of stone but addition
| bad recently been made by Mr Conger few years
SINCE Ttis addition of wood, filled in with bri k,
all the partition walls throughout the several
buildings stscbed The second floor Of the addition
divided into four sleeping rooms all occupied by
| laboIing In the south west room, four men
slet in the southeast, one; in the northeast, one;
| in tie north west, man. More had occupied
the roons but on Saturday night one nan and boy,
fortunately for them, were qua, tered in cow-byne,
| and escagtd. An aged man, named John Blackharst,
highly esesmed for intelligence aud probly, was
sltepipg over toe wood she'd aud fell victim to the
flames while probably buried in slumber. One of the
| occupants Of the southwest room saved bis life by
| LEAF rP fIom the window, also did the who
slept in the southeast chamber. All Of the three other
teIsnts Of the south west room burned to DEATH
| one Of them after he bad found bis way 70
| the font door down stairs He bad doubtless
| been unable TO open the door before be was
! oveIpowered by the smoks and fell upon
biz face At The very threshold When found he pre-
srnted oritle Spectacle his head being roasted
crisp and sbrunEen TO the size of small cocoanut, the
limbs burned off, and the ffsh burned from the bones
| The name Of this unfortunate Lsbman was Thomas
REEVE, but lie known by the soubriqnet of Long
| Tom his age was about 20. One of his room mates
whore name could learn is said to have merely
turned in his bed, ON being aroused by the man who
sprang from the window, with faint exclamation as
Of enc aho was s1iioestibg. lis was burned in his
bed and biz cbarIed remains which had lost all sem
hlaDcs OF humanity, found Ia the ruins afterward
The otter occupant of this room had unfortunately
rushed into The the other of the house,
at tie very time hen ladder was being rai,ed for
him. and was there burned along with Charles Luck
ley AN English aborer.
The buildings burned were beside the dwelling of
of Patterson, a Summer-kitchen, wood-shed dairy, q
thr.e.s story penthouse, ice house, smoke-house and
teeo boiling she'd large carpenter shop, and pig
gerry The total lors in buildings is abost $1,000 to
Mr.. Ccneer, $4,000 of which insured. Poor Pat
tersoI lost everything he had in the world. The story
q be had been overcome with fright is untrue for
throughout the terrible he acted with pre- Of
mind and to his courage is attributable the safety Of
bic wife and children. the fire first discovered at
about a. IN, aud before clock The range of build
ngs al eveed 10 the ground, end nothing but bed
Of smnulderiDg enihers So fierce tho fire that had
the ind been blowD g ard the stock stables they
would have undou teny been consumed, aud along
with them some thirty OF forty head of bghprced cat
e hundred leads rye fifty tuns of hay, AID other
valuable naeiial. As it the stables would have
gone if it had been that gatta fercha roof
the .rgine.hc on which the sparks fell harnlessly.
Mr.. Coz ger feels the death of his laborers most
poignanly and would cheerfuly have lost almost any
Of property if he could have saved their lives
Jury was impaoneed on Sunday at 10 o'clock,
and after viewi the bodies of the four who per-
ishtd in the house. rendered eroct Of accidental
death. The remains CT poor old John Blackhurst
Lot found until late in the afternoon when second
Jury was impanneled, and similar verdict was
dered.
M Conger rad the bodies all deceny Inferred
Of them with the rites Of the Catholic Church aud ope
that of Charles Luckey, the Englishman, from the
Presbyterian Cbuich at Havers'raw.
TIE sad calamity has caused great sensation
throughout the reighborug country; and since Suu-
day some 000 persons from HayeIstraw, Nyack, the
county uroui d. and the towns over the river have
viii ed the spot.
We stated yesterday that we were not informed as
to the origin Of the fire, but that &c had possibly been
communicated from the engine fine. This expans ion
seems be erroneous for fire had been kindled
DER the boiler since the 9th Of June, the day Of Mr..
CCpger's stock SALE No othor lire is known to have
been led. Dywhere about The premises the night pre-
vus, and ~ tie whole matter is wrapped in mystery
asyet.
A disease called putrid sore THREAT has prevailed
quite ensively, recently, in Canterbury, n. Is near
rho station If The ST. Andreg's R.itnad In one