The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-17

A Large Portion Of the CITY of Quebeo Da
stroyed-Twenty-ive hundred Houses Burned
Eighteen Thousand People Rendered Homeless
Several Churches and Converts Laid in Ashes
Loss Nearly Three Millions-Three Great Fire,
Raging simultaneously - Description of the
Burned District
QUEBEC, October 16.-At O'Clock yeiterdav
morning are Degan in the house of Mr. Trudei
grocer, on 81 JOSEPH street, the Jaco les Car
tier Market Owing TO the early hour of the nom.
ing few peop g were about The wind, whicn had
0ioWn malt gale rom tue east all night, had slightly
aLateo, but stil continued with such vioe ence as TO
cause serious apprehensions, which aIter wards
- BY The time the fire brigade reached the soene.
lIudePs house was envelo ped in flames The san.
pers were already there, but there was some della v
in laying the hose and getting sufficient water.
Mnlcn was not remedied for nearly an hour
th Meantime the fire mace rapid proGress no less
W9ouen sheds on al sides were lgnited.
BY % O'Clock eighty houses all built of WOO 4 were
sIeed ng IN al dnecnons. At 81 o'c ock over one
hundred and fifty houses were consumed
nv lhe nre Dy tnis time had run along ~. Joseph and
Notre Dame des A0nes streets to the junction of St
Haler street, carr ing everything bel fore It The
Church oil La Congregation stood in great dan ger
but sudden yeerng Of the wlnd saved it. Os0''
Crossing 81. Vaher stree', the fire soon after
spread lnto 81 Sauveur, and among IT. hundreds of
wooden houses, Iaged with defiant fury House
AFTER house fell prey tne flames IL was Thought
tn the houses to the eastwaI would be saved out
tion. ~ ~
At e;eyen O'Clock the whole centre of the district
lying between St Sauveur ana the 10 yer streets
running parallel with the RIVER. was q charred and
Darren waste, add having nothing to feed on there
the coDfagrati0n dIstrI uted itself IN opposte drec
tons, the wind increasing again and bio wing IN
gusts from every direction These separate cOnfa-
gratIons were ObseIvab at one time ST Ss1venr
ChuIch, Dunns soap and candle factor Rirs,
rope-walk, and other ar o buIdinps were in flames
Along 81, Valer street to wards the toll-gate and
Convent, another terrible fire was raging with
even greater fury; while at the bacx Of Grown
uyar T,a..
streets, the 1ames were creeping lck and enyelon.
ing street atoer stree in spite OF tine almost suDer
M human e1errons OF the soldiers and the seamen of
:, The col fagratlon ceased at about O'Clock, when
there was nothing more Tor Is to feed on
moderate computation D aces the number of
houses DESTROYED at two thousand five hundred
snd S 9sS m OF reai properly at from two millions
Inc number OF persons rendered homeless is esti-
The body of q man burned almost 10 a crisn was
dragged out of house IN ST. Sauveur, near ST. Val.
iier street. II could not be identified.
blown up, and badly, though not dangerously
Lieutenant Douglas, of he Aurora. was seriouslv
hurt by ialling bu' d ne.
Several of the sesmen received contusons but as
Lieutenant Benn, of one OF the regiments, had
his arm broken by falling beam.
LOCALITY OF THE FIRE.
Over the newest and est part of the lower
town 1t was that the conhagra ion OF Sunday morn
ing chiefly Ioared and ragged We are 1T Ii without
such full ana minute details of the CALAMITY as
would be necessary to enable us make a really
trustw OrthY estimate OF its extent and glavty;
We know enough 70 Assure us that blow has been
struck at the ospeI of Quebec hardly less severe
than that which il received from the gIeat res of
1S46 Now, as then, the quarter of st. Roch, v tn
its suburb of St. SauVler, seems to have been the
chief quarter of devastation.
This quarter of st koch skirts the bank OF the
river st Chares and is really sort OF continuation
OF the Lower Town" proper of Que jec which lies
along the st. Lawrence 1t was baptizeI by jacques
Cartier by tne name OF Porte Salute Crolx. and it
Nuaa OH hV mi QPnd md u0Odan
buildings OF var Gus kinds. These. under the nigh
nd which raped at Quebec as it did at Pot and in
July, must soon have become O mass OF flame not
easily to be overcome the burning quarter
could have been bombarded with water from the
ramparts of the tortr, up to which the city cir
cautiously climbs from the region of the disaster.
DIVISIONS OF QUEBEC.
The following tab OF the quarters into which
Quebec Is d yided, with the materials of winch each
quarter is built will enable the reader to under tand
what excellent food the flames must have found in