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

TVventy-Three Hundred buildings De-
strOyed-six Persons known to Have
Been Burned TO Death-several Others
Missing-Public Meeting I'm Quebec
Contributions Solicited for the suf-
ferers, Etc.
QUEBEC, October 16.-The Mayor of Quebec
issued q proclamation yesterday morning for q
mass meeting to be held last evening, to devise
means to assist the sufferers by the great ire
A more numerous and influential assembly never
convened IN this city. The citizens whose pro-
perty escaped injury are doing everything in
theil power to provide relief for those who have
been rendered bouseless and pennless by the
greatest fire that ever occurred in America. The
suherings at Portland cannot be compared to
those endured at Quebec. The people in the
province have no one to rely on. The iuhab-
iants vi Lower Canada, being poor, cannot assis.
the sufferers as they would wish.
A committee was appointed who will imme-
dlaely appeal TO the chartably disposed persons
sonstbroughout the coudnent Tor funds TO help
rebuild the city and provide homes for the poor,
and tefOre the approaching winter sets in. G.. III.
Smard and William Hossacks have been ap-
pointed treasuIers for the leliet fund by the
MAYOR. Fifteen thousand dollars was sub.
scribed at the meeting last nignt, aud aooIt
five thousand during the day
Coroner Prendergrast held an inquest on the
four bodies taken from the ruins. The mrs
body taken out was that of a woman named
Margaret Weard the wife OF Jean Baptste, o
St. Lareareur, whose husband was Killed by
the explosion in Arago street.
The remains OF three women were discovered
after search of six hours, buried beneath the
ruins Of an old brick building, near the 10 Ner
end of Arago street. Their names were Angela
VadebenoUr, aged thirty-siX years; Ange llqle
Vadebenour, aged sixty years; the name OF the
third has not yet transpired. The mother or
the Nadebenours was taken from beneath q
mass of rubbish in such STATE as to be unre.
cogniZable.
clerk in the grocery store of Mr.. Gaueroux
named Biscouller, is missing, and 1t is leared he
rhnh tIfNar In
from his fathers house on Valeur street, a tew
minutes before The house was blown up. Several
other persons are also reported missing.
The number OF houses destroyed is greater
than at first supposed. l think they VIII exceed
1850, throwing over %, 900 persons on the charity
OF the world.
On ST. Lauvre and Stone streets out of 1000
houses only l75 are lett Standing Toe families
living IN these we're all OF the poorest class, and
very few of them saved from the flames any
clothing except what was on their persons
Out OF the large number of houses that were
situated in the suburbs of the ci,y, the only
| token left is a wilderness OF chlmneys and ruins
OF what was the most popular resort during the
| summer months.
The different societies Of the city have placed
at the disposal of the authorities their halls Tor
the families who were unable to procure tents.
| The skating ground, the City Hall, two drill
sheds, and the Marine Hospila al are nled.
| The Governor iencral, Immediately after
being notified of the sad catastrophe, ordered a
| thousand tents to be forwarded to Quebec
| for the accommodation of the houseless suc-
Ierers.
In the Sisters of Charity Hospital are two
| hundred az d fifty persons under their charge.
The Sisters have been among the poor house
less creatures. furnishing food and clothes, and
| administering TO the wounded.
The telegiaoh poles OF the Montreal Company
| we're burned down ior over NILE
| The weather during the day is very pleasant
but at night the air is very chilly. Those Twins
| in tents complain bitterly OF the cold.
| A mass meeting iS TO be held in Montreal to
| morrow night to raise subscriptions for tn
sufferers.