Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-12-21
B~rnlpg OF Charls.,on.

The Norfolk and Richmond papers give
full particulars of the extensive coDdagra-
tion in Charesi on, S. G. The FIRE hroke
out on the L 1th instant in sash and blind
factory at the foot OF HAZEL street, rxten.
lug to the machine shop Of Cameron &
| Co.
The panic became awful, and thOusa sands
of families evacuated their houses, and
filed the streets. The buildings in the
lower part Of the city where The FIRE broke
out, we're principally of wood, and extreme
| ly iphummabIe which accounts for the re
markaAy rapid progress Of the Gre at mid.
night q;
Before midnight the FIRE had assumed an
appalling magnitude. aud Meeting street
from Market to Queen street was mass
| of flames, as tenement after tenement was
enyeoped in flames.
The Circular Church and InStitute Hall
| we're burning, and the proximity of thel
| flames TO the Charleston Hotel and the
| Mills House caused them TO he evacuated
| by their inmates. AT o'clock he 6re
| tended more southWard towards the corner
| OI AICUudIc NHuttUS Sll0ciS ~ tIH rear
of the Charleston Hotel to the eud of
Home street, crossing Market street, the
| fire spread down East Bay to Cumberland
street, and across 10 the Mills House, in.
F., Guiding in its destruction The Circular
| Church aud Institute Hall, and the Charles
ton Ho'el. All the buildings on King
ST. eet from Clifford nearly to Broad, were
! destroyed before three O'Clock in the after
noon Gen. Ripley who superintendent the
movements Of the troops, who arrived
on the scene at about this time, and order
several buildings on the route of the con.
dagratlon TO be blown up.
After some delay tho order was excuted
THAI part of he city which is already
known to be consumed eoHfained far more
| Of value than all that remained The moss
| fashionable part, where the richest planter
aud merchants had their city residences
along the lower extremity, down to the
Ashley river, the public buildings, Including
he custom iiunse, court house, aud all the
nnnieipni offices, as well as the theatre
the market aud the best hotels the cannon
fvRndry, snd hundreds OF large mercantile
establishments. Much of the city is bniII
Of wood King street was the principal
avenue of fashion nd resort, as well as OF
retail trade, although its buildings were not
Of much pretenSion.
The Mercury, Courier, Southern Christian
Advocate aud Book Depository, Insurance
Offices, banks, aAd large wholesale dry
goods honses were on Back street The
cotton factors, commission and transporta-
tion merchants were on Feast Bay street.
The Mills House, Charleston Hotel, InsIi-
TUE Hall, Theatre, aud market were on
Meeting street. All these streets were
burned over, besides some thirty large
wharfs, buildings. and stores on Cooper
river
Among the buildings destroyed were the
Custom House. Post Office, Court House,
Cry Hall-which held the Council Cham
Der, records, aud full length statue of
Calhoun. The Court House included the
Guard House, aud attached was the tor
ture-yard where slaves were seat 10 be
whipped The Mills House, the fashionable
house OF tue south, the Charleston Hotel,
second only 10 the Mills aud the Planters
Hotel
vi the Churches destroyed ST. Michael's
Episcopal is the most important. being the
Oldest in America, in the Revelation it
furnished quarters for British cavalry--tbe
lhe Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Con
gsegatonal, French Protestant, the lst
nv r,,ssoy'erlsn and ST Phillips (Episeopai)
rug uN@oe' Of mercantile houses burned
ea1 na'u,y ee enumerated. 1t has blolted
ou' 'ue ouha'nss in which active treason
was natehed IN The National Democratic