New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-10

physicilas are now charged ssahst u
police force, while under the old system
Sy We not Charged q zlnss s'se poas'
bu. sess charged, a. ssparate items
THE GREAT FIRES on RECORD.
In view of the terrible calamity which
has befallen our sister city Of Chicago,
|.ear.seaders will 4aAs-e-nslancholy in
terest in comparing its extent and devas.
tation with the great copaagrations that
have become matters Of histo,y. 3
Mr.. John Evelyn's graphic account d
the ''Great Fire at London tells us that
that woeful disaster began about ten
o'clock on the night Of September 2, 1866,
Ii Fayner's baker shop, and that on the
following day he saw 'ten thousand
houses all in one dame'-language almost
identical with dispatch describing the
fearful spectacle yesterday visible on the
shore Of Lake Michigan to the one
EVELYN described from the bank Of the
Thames. This condagration continued
until the seventh, and was only checked
BY blowing up large blocks OF buildings
. method which ''some stout seamen pro-
posed early enough to have sav'd neare
ye whole City, but some tenacious and
avarit,ous men, aldermen. etc., would
not permit, because their houses
must have been Of the first" The writer
Gays that lin five OF six miles traversing
about l did not see one load Of timber I'M
consumed, nor many stones but what
we're calcined white as snow" Near
Isl:ngton and Highgate alone ''one might
Rave seen two hundred thousand people,
of all ranks and degrees, dispersed and
lying along by the heaps Of what they
could save from the fire, deploring their
losse and ready to pe,.sh for hunger and
restitution"
A graphic summing up by Hayden tells
us that '.its ruins covered four hundred
and thirty-six acres, extended from the
Tower to the Temple Church. and from
the northeast gate to Holborn bridge
It began at q bakers horse in Pudding
lane. behind Monument Yard, and de-
stroyed in the fou- days eighty-n'ne
churches (includi.g St. Pauls), the city
gates, the Royal Exchange, the custom
house, Guildhall, Sion college and many
other public buildings, besides thirteen
thousand two hundred houses, laying
waste four hundred streets. About two
hundred thousand persons encamped in
Islineton and H'ghgate fields" 1t was
currently believed at the time that the
great plague, which began in 1864 and
ragged throughout all of 1865, and which
carried of sixty-eight thousand five hum
bred and ninety-six persons, was not
finally extil eated until the occurrence OF
the great fire in 1866. A monument COM
memorative of the great fire was erected
in 1912 by Sir Oh, :s.ophe- Wren, at a
cost Of Ella, 500.
The greatest fires that are recorded IN
this country were:
December 16, 1885. IN the city Of New
York; 600 warehouses, AID property to
the amount Of $50, 100000.
April q, 1885,. At Charlie s.on, South
Carolina; 1853 buildings, covering 145
acres. ..
September 6, 1889. New York city; 4e
buildings; loss 100000.
April 10, 1915. At Pittsbu-g, Pennsyl-
vania; 1000 buildings; loss s6.OoO,Ooo.
May %, 1915. In Quebec, Canaaa;
1900 buildings; many lives and an i'm
mense amount of property lost. In less
than month aft=rwa-d; 1909 dwellings;
il all, two-thi,ds Of the city destroyed.
July 10. 1916. In New York city; 3o2
stores and dwellings; 4 lives; loss
Sc. 600, 600.
Nav II, 1919. At St. Louis; Is blocks
Of houses AID % steamboats,; loss 3,0OO,-
600.
July 8, 1850. At Philadelphia; $50
bulldogs; loss s1,5oo,ooO; 25 persons
killed, 9 drowned end 12O wounded.
May 3-5, 1851. In San Francisco; $500
buildings; loss ss,2oo,o 900 and many lives.
One month later; 500 buildings; loss
50. O00, 900.
July ~, 1852. IN Montreal; 1900
houses; loss 81, 100000.
May 16, 1859. At Key West Florida;
20 acres burned over; ITO houses de-
stroyed; loss 50, 100000.
July 4, 1866. City of Port'and, Maine,
nearly destroyed by fire; 10000 people
rendered homeless; loss SIS, 900, 900.
A PIECE OF INPERTIIENCE.
As piece Of good reading matter the
on Sunday printed the