Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03
Dreadful Confagration in Ney Orleans

Fearful and Fatal Catastrophs-Sa,er
 at Lives Lost-50 10 6, H,mar
 Beings Cra@hed-Sl5O, ,O0l worth o1
 Property Destroyed.
 We take the following accout of the fire which occurred in New Oleans on Friday, the 2lst ult., from the Delta of Saturday morning following:
 Last evening, about T o'clock a fire broke out in the fourth story of the wholesale lionor store of Karsteindieck & O., 10l and 103 Ichoupitoulas-street, between lafayette and Girod streets. The flames spread with fearful rapldlty and destruction, and shed grand and awful glare over the entire upper portion of the city. In a short time tht fire rushed through these spacious buildings back to Commerce-street, and now, here a fearful oc- currence, which we dare not dilste upon, took place.
 We were present, standing OF the lower or western corner of Commerce and Lafavette streets. A loud explosion was heard-the liquor barrels yielded to the devolring element "a frightful crash followed, An upper portion, one story, of the budding of the lower store, 101, of Messrs. Kaasteindeick &, Co.,, came down by force of theexplosion on the building next it, three-s -sto1 one, said to be that of Evans & Co.,, flour ant commission merchants, corner Lafayette and Tchoupitou- las streets
 By this wall falling it carried h the corner store roof and hurled the outer pr side wall Con Lafayette-street) of Evans S Co.,. to the ground with electrical velocity. How we shudder to report the scene. Frdn one hun dred and fifty to two hundred ptrsons were near around, and in this building of Evans & Co some firemen, some laborers, some police men, some merchants, and others, young and old, of our citizens. From tweity-five to thirty laborers, fremen and others, were en- gagged in removing and rolling barrtls of flour and merchandise out of this store as there was no fire within it at tho time. Previous to to the tn fall of the wall, standing On the side walk, and in the middle of Lafayette- street. were from one hundred and fifty to two hun dred persons, and when the crash vas heard, and the walls gave way, their condemnation was truly deplorable to behold Notless than nifty or sixty were buried in the ruin,
 The flames ragged in broad and fierce gran- deur from the exploded liquor barrels, and scene of ruins, as if by dramatic magic, SO sudden was the whole calamitous change of things, appeared amid profound silence of the awe-stricken beholders. The heat was intense, and when the scattered popuhce re- turned to the spot of disaster, the noblest and most praiseworthy examples of bravery on the part of firemen and police, citizens, young and old, took place that ever we beheld. Re, gardless of the scorching clements and the dangers of surrounding, tottering walls, the fremen grandly went to the rescue of the sufferers, whose groans of agony were heard from beneath the pile of bricks and rafters.
 Every effort was brought to bear by fremen and policemen and citizens to relieve the sufferers, and as, one by one, each body was brought out, the silent operation thereof was loudly cheered by the lockers on What sight! There we beheld friends with their hands and arms steeped in the blood of the wound! There we beheld the stiff corpse but a moment before the agile, active, living body. Horrible, sad sight
 After giving a list of those taken from the ruins, the Delta says;
 It would be impossible to say how many persons are missing and buried beneath the mass of ruins, and it would be unkind to the feelings of many of the reported lost ones friends now living in our city or on pleasure tours, to give the least word that would i'm, ply death was at their doors. However, we cannot refrain from mentioning that Alexan- der Strawbl idge, of the firm of Strawbridge & Co.,, Commercial Alley, was not found uT to our going to press. We are 10th to mention the names of the others we have until we car speak with positiveness, either one way or tht other.
 A list of ten others who were taker from the ruins is given.
 It is supposed there are several other bodies seneath the ruins, as we learn from anxious nanJc of tha p&;o sir rofb d., sos and fathers. From one anxious mother We5gere beseechingly entreated to find her son. Johl O'Rourk, aged nineteen years. Poor "omaa, we could give her no aid. We have serle of incidents connected with this la- menraDe event which has cast gloom over our cltysand set many hearts and homes in mourning.but we forego their publication till
 Ihe loSs this fire in a pecuniary sense, ana thls .h hlsShe least consideration in our lhiho, at 'nis siiting, will be about $150,000, ot which ohe-lrd is insured.
 Saturday afteaoon's Delta has the fol- lowing:
 ] After writing ourAaport last nipbt of inc fearful calamity by frlon Tchoun;foulas b % as and and Lafayette-streets, we pheeded once more to the sad scene, and remaled thare mn to an
 early hour this morning,yhen our attention was called to another saensive fire else where.
 ANOTHER LARGE FIRE-SvppAr FAmr1-
 IFS HoMELEss-A WHOLE BLNx RupNrn
 This morning about one o'clo'x fire broke
 out in the third house from the eS,rner of Po-
 lymnia-street, on Apollo-street, The wind
 being fresh, and the houses partlyeame ones.
 and the fire department engaged frescuine ,I the bodies at the Lafayette and Tcho nitoulas
 street fire, the flames had sole codl3l and
 soon enveloped everything within theh each.
 The result was that one double oas,torv
 house and three one-story single horst on
 Polymnia-street were destroyed. White River Township Breckinrias and Taua ClUh.