The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-19
FIRES IN NEW YORK.
Destruction OF Goes Bonded aud SiOruge Stores
in Water ard Cherry Streets.
Loss Estimated at About Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars.

About three o'clock yesterday afternoon fre broke
out in the third floor of the Storage Stores No 605
Cherry street. of East street kept by A. NJ Law
renee, formerly Coe Lawrence When first discovered
the fire among bales of cotton part OF cargo
OF six hundred bales from New Orleans put into the
warehouse during the past three days aud unloaded
from the brig Belle of the Bay. The of the
brig, Mr. G. ID. Williams stated Assistant Fire Marshal
H. O. Baker that he board his vessel
at the dock when he smoke issuing from the
third Door windows that he Immediately the
street and went into the warehouse to the top story
when he saw fire among the cotton at the part
OF tho hoor He then put his head out of the window
and called Are. About hf hour previously he says
he and the chief mate Mr. stedson were on that
counting the bales Of cotton and that time everything
appeared all right The suppositon Is that the re
have been in the cotton when taken the store
Owing to the combusiible character Of the goods
the flames spread with great rapidty, and in a
short time the Are forced itself into the bonded
adjoining, and known Nos. $50 and A, b, C and
Water street. all Of which occupied by Mr.. Lawrence
In about half hour after the fire broke the roof
and walls of No. sos Cherry street fell in, apd fifteen
minutes later tho Water street stores
mass Of ruins No exertions that the aremen
made could stay the devouring element, and
their attention mainly directed to protecting the
adjacent property. Ae time fears entertained
for the safety of the Judd Oil Works Cherry street.
and it with difficulty that the fire kept from
Thorborn Waierbury's spar yard aud the Fulton
Foundry. Chief Engineer Kingsland was In charge,
aided by his assistants They interchangeable IN their
labors The heavy eastery wind blowing at the time
rendered 1t necessary TO remove the shipping at the
dock. The vessels were hauled into the stream. One
schooner aground aud before She got
ten OF caught fire. The flames, however, were
quickly exngushed and before any amount Of damage
was done The police. under Captain Steers OF the rhr
tecnth precinct aided by sections from the Seventh,
Tenth, Eleventh. Seventeenth and Eighteenth precincts,
were very efficient The amount OF property destroyed
will be very large. The merchandise owned by
insurance The value OF the property OF course s mere
conjecture The following is list Of about the principal
articles destroyed, viz:-l6 900 hides 1000 bales OF
rags 5000 bales OF cotton 20 600 bushels OF SALT 5000
bushels OF wheat, 5000 bales OF hemp $500 bales Of
gunny bags 1000 bales OF WOOL IS 900 bags Of sugar.
There will probably be salvage Of from twenty TO thirty
per cent when the ruins overhauled.
The buildings Cherry street were one hundred feet
by two hundred and fifty feet and three stories high
those on Water street were one hundred by two
hundred and fifty feet and i've stories high.
They owned by Charles A. Coo, and damaged to
the extent OF $3.50 00O said be fully insured Up TO
the time of going to press the Gre was still burning
During the evening, about ton O'Clock the Fire Com
mssoners applied ~ the Police Commissioners for the
extended to the Dock the flames could not be reached
by the engines the streets Unfortunately that
sci out OF repair and could not be had, SO In all
probability the dock will be destroyed.
Soon after the fire broke out Captain Alexander NJ
Ponnock, the first executive officer OF the Brooklyn
Navy Yard apprehending danger to the new sloop Of
war Madawaska lying at the wharf near the Fulton Iron
Works. where she IL receiving her machinery, immed
a,cy despatched the United States tugboats Catapa and
limits TO tow the vessel out OF danger.