New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-22
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Last evening, at about quarter to o'clock q
fire broke out in the fourth story of the range of
houses on Tchoupitoulas street, between Lafayette
and Girod, occupied as warehouses by Karstendiek
& Co. and E. j. Hart & Co. The fire started in
one Of the warehouses occupied by the latter frm,
toward the end fronting on Foucher street, all the
warehouses running through to that street. There
stock of liquors, drugs, pants, and oils In
this building, insured for Sl7000 but worth con-
siderable more
As may be imagined, the combustbes, above
named frightened the flame and lit up the city as
with volcanic eruption. The adjoining buildings,
occupied by karstendek Il Co., toward Girod
street, contained from s30Gu0 to $35 600 worth OF
wines and liquors. Neither roof nor wallis were
able to save this additional fuel from the terrific
onslaught of the adjoining flames.
The fire smoked, flashed, and popped; and as
all the warehouses roared away together ths blue
lights of the burning liquors and drugs mingled
with the red flames above and Illuminated the
muddy street cutters below for squares.
Above karstendiek ( Co.'S was the commission
and forwarding house of Bredow Wusthoot, who
had but a small stock of box goods and liquors,
valued at not more than $1,000 or $1,000. This and
the warehouses previously named roared of to-
gether and as they reared away in their terrific
cloud of flame and smoke, there occurred the most
appalling catastrophe that has taken place at any
| fire in this city within our remembrance.
| The three story warehouse of Mallory Il Bro,
! occupied the corner OF Tchoupitoulas ard Latay-
ete streets and next this side TO the fourstory
warehouses of Z. j. Hart & Co., and karstendiek
| Il Co.
| Long before the last named warehouses had
| burned down, the upper or fourth-storY. OF the
| house toward Lafayette street exploded, and the
| outward wall fell on the roof OF Molony II Bro
| three.story warehouse at the corner of Lafayette
| street.
| number of aborers, employed by John Adams
| ION behalf of the Underwriters) and number o.
| iiremen were working in the building at the Tune
| The laborers were rolling out the barrels, and the
| iiremen (members OF the hook and ladder com
| panies) were choppng away at the doors and win
| dnws on Lafayette and FOucher streets, ttho firt
having just communicated on the last named street
| when the explosion took pluce.
The wall Of tho taller building, with its heavy
freight in roar OF FIRE, tell outward upon tn,
lesser building of Maony " Bro There was I
deafeuiug crash, and the outer wall oil the cotne
building fell over on Lafayette street, whilst tht
interior part descended upon the ilFemen and Ia
bbrers outside aud within the whole, with 4 shocl
which caused the surrounding neighbofhood t,
shake as by an earthquake.
more terrific than ever, and the certainty that eve
so many men were beneath the RUNS, rendered th
scene the most terrific and exciting that has eve
been Witnessed at fire in this city.
At this time when the raging tlaHles, led 10 tF
palling fereeness by the eombustbes with Wtls
the buildings We're stored were bursting up ID
solid pillar OF fire far above the roofs, oceUue
the dreadful disaster which will make this cenita
grafton long memorable Beneath the treaehsrou
shelter of the three.story wall facing on latayett
street, the fremen had approached and Fearln
their ladders had broken in the windows and ~er
! playing through them upon the Games OF the her
! furnace within, when suddenly the uppet porua
of the partition wall between the two stores Tel
, and forcing the flooring timhers outward agan'
the outer wall, its fall instantly followed and will
/ out moments warning to the tiremen 10 escape
1t came down upon the sidewalk and halt acres
the street with crash which resOundei far aroun
I through the city, and Sas peculiarly terrific
I those near by who knew that it was the feagf
Ii and heart-thrilling doath-knBil Of the brave al
: unfortunate men who were consigned TO SHOE
r ing and painful fats, crushed beneath the mass
d heated masonry in which they were hurled. AuI
IS bers who were nn the margin of the area OF d
;, structinn covered by the falling wall were pro
n lrated by scattering bricks and tunhers, but {
/, capped NTH comparatively small tniuryi othe