The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-06
Great Fire .at Portland. Me.

PORTLAND, ME-, July 4th.-A fire here
this evening destroyed Brown. g. Sons
sugar house ions Commercial street and
sweeping cfercely through that street
into the wooden buildings between
Centre and Gross streets, consuming
everything as it went. j. r. Brown Il
Sons lost from Sc to 700, 900; insured for
$500, 600. Staples e. Sons machine shop
and N. P. Richards g. Co. stove foundry
are completely destroyed. gI ~ 9al
Il b57ISecond Dispatch.
PORTLAND, Me, July th.-The fire
has completely swept through the city
and destroying everything in its track
so completely that lines of streets can
hardly be travelled for space of one and
half mile long by a quarter of a mile
wide. Many buildings, perhaps fifty,
were blown up techeck the flames; but
Inhabitants could scarcely do more than
fee with their families to the upper part
.ofthe city saving such goods as they
could carry. The Custenl House being
fire proof escaped through greatly daa-
AGED. Uourt Records in the npperfstory
are probably desH0yed.3 The spleFn1dllldt F1llt !
CITY and county buildings on Congress
street which was nearly fire proof was
considered safe and it was piled full of
furniture by the neighboring residents,
and then it was swept away with all its
contents. The half of the city is destroy
ed, and that half includes. nearly all the
business, portion; excepting the heavy
business in Commercial street. ALI the
banks and newspaper Offices are burned
out, but three printing Offices are lett;
all the jewelry establishments, wholesale
dry goods stores, several churches, tne
telegraph offices, nearly all the
stationary stores, and the majority OF the
business places are destroyed. The fire
is still raging below Cumberland street,
crossing back to westward, the wind
being changed. Capt. Henry lnmau has
telegraphed for 1900 tents to accommodate
the homeless families. 1910 ..s-
j., Third Dispatch.]
PORTLAND, Me, June 5,-The fire COM
menced a little below the foot of High
street; it next burned up Horns -four.
ing MILL and then Browns sugar house,
with all its surroundings; then Staples
g. Sons and Richardson's foundries.
Nothing else was destroyed on CONNER
cial street of consequence. 1t next
swept what is called Graham's Corner,
composed of small wooden buildings,
clean it then burned up as far as the
old Barnum House, on Pleasant street,
over one third the way up Centre
street; half the way up Cotton street; /;
completely up Cross, Union, Temple and
Exchange streets. 1t swept down on
the northern side of Fin street to India
street, on the east, while in west it
moved along diagonally across Middle
street and down to Cumberland street,
taking the Elm House but sparing the
First Parish Church; then from Chest
nut street to North street. It made a
eanssweep on the easterly side of Cum
berland street, and the same was the
case with Congress street, and every
thing else to Fin street as far east as
Iudia street. 1t is almost impossible to
tell where the people lived. The ruin
and destruction was complete. Davis,
Baxter & Co., on Free street, Wholesale
dealers in fancy articles. set down their
loss at S25, 900, which ia fnlly insured IN
the Htna hartford Company, and the
Hampden Springfield Company. .r.