Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-12-18
FULL PARTICULARS OF the CON-
FLAGRATION IN CHARLES.
TON, 3. G.
Loss Of Property Estimated at
from Is, 600, 600 to
47,OOO,OOO..
TT. Pulaski OCCUPIED BY TIE
FEDERAL TROOPS.
AFTERNOON DISPATCHES.
From Fort Monroe.

From Fort Monroe.
FT. NoMRoH, Dec. 1s.
Norfolk papers give full particulars Of the *
tensive couhagration in Charleston, 3. G. The
are broke ont on the lith inst, in Sash and
Blind Factory, at the foot Of Hasel street, extend
ing to the machine shop Of Cameron& Co. Before
midnight, the tire had assumed appalling
magnitude, aad Meeting street FROM Market 70
Queen, vas one mass Of flames. As tenement after
tenement WAS enveloped 10 flames, the panic be-
came awful. and thousands Of families evacuated
their houses and filled the streets. The buildings
in the lower part Of the city, where the IRE broke
out, were principally Of wood and extremely in
6aspmable, which accounts for tho rapid progress
Of the IRE. ~ midnight. tho Circular Church
and Institute Hall were burning, and the prsxim-
ity Of the flames to tho Charleston Hotel and the
Mills House, caused them to be evacuated By
their inmates. At one o'clock tho 6re tended
moro Southward towards the corner sf AIchdale
and Queen streets to the rear Of the Charleston
Hotel and to the end Of Home street. The 6Ye
spsead down East Bay to Cumberland
street, and across to the Mills, including ia it,
destruction the Circular Church, Institute
Hall, and the Charleston Hotel. All the build.
ings on King street from Clifford nearly TO
Broad street were destroyed before three
o'clock. Gen. Ripley. who superintendsd the
movements Of the troops. and Who arrived on
the scene about this time, ordered several
buildings on the south of the eonAagration 70
be blown up. and after some delay the order
vas executed, bat not before the Theatre,
Loyds Coach Factory, opposite the Express
Office. the old Executive building and sll the
houses from this point to Queen street had
caught fire and were destroyed At about 4
r. n the wind changed and the direction Of
the flames was towards Broad street. Soon
after, St. Andrews Hall took FIRE, and subss.
qusntly the Cathedral, the spirs OF which fell
shortly after 5 o'clock. The fire made .
clean sweep through the city. making . track
from East Bay TO King street.
The Chsrleston Courier Of the 10th inst.
gives list Of between two and thrss hundred
soffersrs, and says the loss is estimated 1t from
1--WE 70 seven million dollare Mr.. Russell, at
whose factory the 6rs originated. thinks It
must have been oceasioned BY an incendisry
OF the negligence Of negrosa The Mills House
is only slightly damaged.
message was sent to the Confederate Con.
gress Friday, BY President Davis. in relation to
the confsgrstioq. at Charleston, South Caro-
lima, accommodating IN appropriation
accordingly adopted BY Congress appropriate
ing $3.50. 600 as an advance on account Of the
claims Of South Carolina upon the Confederate
states.
Five churches we're destroyed, viz--ths Ro-
man Catholic Cathedral, st. Peters Episcopal
Church. the Cumberland Street Church, the
Methodist and Circular Churches.
A dispatch from Richmond l4th. says the
Federals. 500 strong, attacked Col. Edward
Johnson at Valley Mountain. on the ! 9Th inst,
but were repulssd with great loes. after 90
engagement Of several hours.
The Christian Mercury says 81 buildings we're
destroyed at the Gro.
Ben McCulloch had arrived At Richmond.
4 passenger by steamer, from Fort Monroe, re-
ports the arrival OF the steamer Connecticut at
Old Point, with intelligence that Fort Pulaski has
been evacuated BY the srebeis, and is occupied BY