The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-21

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and blind factory, q H. foot a, Hassl street,
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appalling magnitude and Meeting stsssk fton
Market - Queen, was 90 men e 49,. Al
tenement after tenement we're eaveleeed 8
Named, the panic beesae awfnl, and ehonsasdo
Of families evacuated their hoaeee aad AID The
streets The buildings In the lower past n The
city, where the fire broke out were psiasipally
OF wood and extremely inRammahle. which 90
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At midnight tho circ.lar Church and In.ti.
int Hall were bsrning. and H. proxinity Of
the flames 70 The Charleston Hoesl ard ~ Nills
House caused them 70 Be- evacuated s. their n.
mates. At o'clock the Are turned more south
ward towards the corner Of Archdale and Queea
streets, TO the rear Of the Charleotou Hotel. ana
TO the end Of Home street Crossing Market
street, the fre spread down East Bay % Gun
berland street. and across 70 the Nills Houee.
including inits destruction the Circular Church.
Institute Hail, aud the Charleston Hotel. S
Ali the buildinge on King street. from Chf-
ford nearly TO Broad, were DESTROYED before 3
o'clock. Gen. Ripley Who supplemented tie
movements Of the troops, who arrived on the
scene at about this time, ordered several build
ings on the route Of The conAsgration 70 b
blown up. After some delay this order Va q.
ecuted, but uot before the Theatre, Loyd's coach
factory opposite the Express once. the ola
Executive building, and Ill The houses from the
Point to Queen street had caught fire, and were
destroyed. s So 47l
At about O'Clock he wind changed IL d.
rection Of the flames towards Broad streek-
Soon after St. Andrews Hall took ,Are. and sub.
sequently the Cathedral, the spire Of which fall.
ing shortly after O'Clock; the hrs madea cleen
sweep through the city making IL track from
East Bay to King street ass5sss isi.
The Charleston Courier Of the 18th insk,
gives list Of between two and three hundred
sufferers, and says that the loss 10 estimated st
i've to seven milliona Nr. Russell at whose
factory the Ore originated, thinks that Il must
have been occasioned BY an incsndiary or the
negligence Of the negroa The Mills House b
only slightly damaged.
A message Was sent to the Confederate Con.
gress BY President Davis, In relation 70 the con.
fagration ct Charleston, recommending On ap-
preparation In aid of the suf1ererA 4 resolu-
ton was accordingly unanimously adopted By
Congress appropriating t2SO, 900 % IN edvanoo
on account of the claims Of South Oaeolina up.
on the Confederate Statea 7s 81
dispatch from Richmond, dated the 18th
inst, says the Eederals Eve hundred strong. at.
tackled Col Edward johnson at Valley Noun.
tain on tue 18th inst, but were repulsed with
great loss after an engagement Of several hoC3a
Latest particulars in regard to the Gre at
Charleston say that churches are destroyed.
The Catholic Cathedral, St. Peters Episcopal
Church. the Cumberland street Church, the
Methodist Church and the Circular Church. 4
The Charleston Mercury says fifty seven
buildings we're destroyed BY tho FIRE.
Ben NcCulloch had arrived at Richmond.
A passenger by the steamer from Fl Monroe
reports the arrival of the steamer Connecticut At
Old Point with the Intelligence that Fort Pulas-
H has been evacuated BY the rebels and 10 occu-
pied by the federal troops.