The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1861-12-18
Fuli Particulars of the great FIRE nj
Charleston.

fr. MoSxon. Dee, ls.-Norfolk and Rich
mond papers give full particulars of The ex
tensise eo~nilsgration at Charleston.
The ire broke out on the 18th inst. in
sash and blind factory a. the foot of Haze
street. extending to the machine shop o
Cameron \ Co.. and before midnight the hrs
had assumed an appalling magnitude and NEE
ing street from market 70 Queen. Wa a mas.
Of name
The panic became awful and thousai d. o.
families evacuated their houses and filled
the streets. The buildings in the lower par,
OF he city where ERE broke out were princi-
pally OF wood and extremely iniamable
which accounts for the remarkably rapid pro
gress Of the FIRE.
At midnight the Circular Church and In
s,itute Hall were burning. and the proximity
OF the flames TO the Charleston Hotel and the
Mills House, caused them 10 be EVACUATED
by their inmates.
Att O'Clock the fire tended more <onth-
ward towards the corner of Archdale and
Queen streets, To the rear Of the Charleston
Hotel and the end OF Home street, crossing
Market street the fire spread down East BAY
70 Cumberland street and across to the Mills
House including. in It's distinctions. the Cir
cular Church, Institute Hall and the Charles
ton HOTEL. All the buildings on King Il.
from Clifford nearly 20 Broad, were DESTROY
ell before 3 O'Clock.
Gen. Ripley, who superinteded the move
ment OF the troops who arrived at the
scene az about this time, ordered several
building on the route of the ~eonfiagration TO
be blown up. After some delay the order
was executed, but not before the Theatre,
Lloyd's Coach Factory, opposite the Ex-
pres Office. the old executive buildings and
all houses from this point TO Queen street
had caught fire and were DESTROYED.
At about 1 o'clock the wind changed the
direction of the flames towards Broad street.
Soon after st. Andrews Hall took fire. and
subsequently the cathedral, the spire of
which fell shortly after ) O'Clock. The fire
made a clear sweep through the city making
It's track from East Bay TO King street.
The Charleston Courier of the 18th inst.
gives a list Of between two and three hun.
dred sufferers. and says the less IS estimated
aisfrom five TO teven millions.
Mr.. Russell. at whose factory the IRE or.
cinated, thinks that it must have been occa-
stoned by an incendiary. or by the ne IL
gence Of the negroes.
The Mills House is only slightly damaged.
A message was sent TO the confederate
Congress on Friday, by President Davis. i'm
relation to the ~eonfagraiion at Charleston.
recommending an appropriation. in all OF the
sufferers. A resolution was accordingly
unanimously adopted by the Congress, appTo
priating $3.50 900 ne an advance on account
OF the claims OF South Carolina upon the
the Confederate States.
A dispatch from Richmond dated the lith
inst. says, that the FederaIs, FIVE hundred
strong. attacked Cot. Edward johnson At
Valley Mountain ON the l3tn inst. but we're
repulsed with great los after an Engagement
OF several hours.
The latest particulars ia regard 10 the ERE
at Charleston. say five churches were des-
troyed. viz. The Roman Catholic Cathedral.
II. fauls Episcopal Church. Cumberland 81.
Church, Methodist Church and the Circnlar
Church
The Charleston Mercury saws :. buildings
we're destroyed by the fire.