The Portland daily press., 1866-10-16
SEVERAL FEBSONS KILLED AND
WOUNDED.

,18OTB IdaG0U MONTREAL. Oct. liz. q
"A terrible fire occurred at Quebec last night
in st. Roque's and st. Saveur suburbs. Fifteen
hundred houses were destroyed. Four men
were killed, one soldier blown UP and one off,
Ger wounded.
,AD,A sIScoND DRspATcHA }skN1t
opag1agr7a QUEBEC, Oct. 10.
The whole district west of Crown street to
e. seven ton gate, nearly a mile, is burnt.-
seventeen churches and converts are destroy
ca, two thousand houses in ashes, and twenty
thousand people rendered Homeless "A public
meeting has been called for the relief of the
sufferers. -
szTHIRD DISPATCH.
QUEBEC, Oct Is.
At o'clock yesterday morning fire began
in the house of Mrudel; grycer, on st. Joseph
street, near the jacques Cartier market J'Ow-
ing to the early hohr of the morning, but few
people were about The wind which had blown
. half gale from the east all night bad slightly
abated, but still continued with such violence
as to cause serious apprehensiOns that after
wards, were unfortunately realized.
By the time the fire brigade reached the
scene Trudefs house was enveloped in flames
The sappers were already there but there was
same delay in laying the hose and getting suf.s
talent water, which was not remedied for near
~ an hour. Meantime the fire made rapid pro-
gress No less than ten or twelve houses were
on firey and lumber and wooden sheds ON all
sides ignited. BY IL o'clock eighty houses,
all built of wood, were in q blaze, and the
flames driven by the wind were spreading in
all directions. AT 1-2 o'clock over one hnn-
dred and fifty houses were consumed
The fire by this time had run along st. JOS
eph and NOtre Dame Des Anges ztreets to IKE
junction of st. Waller street, sweeping eyery-
thing before it. The Church of La Congrepa-
ton stood in great danger, but a sudden veer-
ing of the wind saved it. Crossing st. Waller
street, the fire soon afterwards spread into st.
SAVIOUR. andsamong its hundreds of wooden
houses, ragged with defiant fury. House after
house fell prey to the flames. 1t was thought
that the houses to the eastward would be saw
ed, but the fire creptl back continuing its work
of destruction. YtstaG
| .Atn O'clock the whole centre of the district
lying between St. SAVIOUR and the lower
streets running parallel with the river, was a
charredand barren waste, and having nothing
70 reed on there, the contiagration distributed
itself IN opposite directions. The wind increas-
ing again and blowing from every point Of, the
compass, three separate ,coniagratipns were
observed at one time, st. Sanvear Church,
lsumls soap and candle factory, Rias' rope
walk and other large buildings were in flames.
Along st. Nalier street, towards the toll gate,
hnd the streets surrounding the General Hos
pftal and Convent, another terrible fire was
raging with even greater fury, while at the
back of Crown street, along Prince Edwards
Jesuit and Pilaud streets, the flames were
creeping back and enyeloping street after
street, in spite of the almost superhuman en-
deavors of the soldiers and seamen of the ,Au-
rora. The conhagration ceased at about five
o'clock, when there was nothing more for it to
feed upon. A moderate computation places
the number of houses destroyed at $500 and
the loss ofrealproperty at from $2,50O,OOO to
EssS,0 600 600. The number Of persons rendered
hotiseless is estimated at $4,000. The body of
man, burned to crisp, was dragged out of a
house N st. SanToaEs near valfsf street Is
could not be identified. Sergeant Hughes of
the Royal Artillery was blown up, and badly,
though not dangerously burned. Lieut.. Doug
lass of the Aurora was severely injured by "a
falling building. Several of the seanen re-
ceived contusions, but so far as is known no
one was seriously hurt Lieut.. Benn of one of
the regiments had his arm broken by a falling