Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-30
The baltimore Fire.

at hrst. equal or approach in eNtOnt those
which have 50 afflicted Chicago and Bos-
ton. Yet, thirteen acres near the bust
ness centre Of the city were burned over
aud the loss is estimated in the neighbOr-
hood of a million Of dollars. As the cen
tire of heburncd district was mainly oc-
cupied with snail tenement houses. great
number Of limilies are made homeless.
The fire department seemed to have acted
promptly and with commendable energy
though the Washington steamers, which
came over IN about City minutes from
that city, largely contributed TO control
the FIRE during the afternoon, so that a
night cOnaagfation was averted. Two
churches-the central Presbyterian and
the First English Luthcran-were burned;
but the fine Cathedral happily escaped,
as did the Catholic Church of st. Al
phonsus, although the orphan school at
tached to the latter was almost entirely
destroyed. Baltimore may be considered
fortunate in her escape from greater dc.
vastation.
The causalitics we're Of no importance,
except in the case of the death of Sister
Rinaldi, nun in the Convent of st.
Alphonsus church, who died from fright
Mr.. Coonin. Chief of the Washington Fire
Department, was hurt by being driven
against by a wag.n but his injuries are
not serious Two frcmcn we're injured by
an explosion Of steam, but they will prob
ably,rccovcr.
Tho boundaries of the "burnt district"
are Howard street on the west, Lexington
on the south, Liberty on the east and
Mulburry on the North. Mulbury and
Lexington streets are exactly parallel,
and Howard crosses both at right angles,
but Liberty street runs diagonally from
Howard street at a point somewhat less
than half a mile south of the fire across
Lexington to Saratoga street, which lies
midway between and parallel with Lex.
ington and Mulberry. Charles street is
parallel With Howard, and if it, instead Of
Liberty, formed the eastern boundary Of
the fire. the district would form q perfect
parellelogram. The longest line Of the
fire is on Mulberry street, where It ex-
tends about three.sixteenths of mile !;
the other three boundary lines will meas
ure each about one-eight of mile. This
makes area Of about onc.fifth the size of
the district burned in Boston last Novem-
Der.
The burnt district ia Baltimore was
Just outside to the north Of what may be
properly termed the business centre of
the city, lying between it and the fine
private residence on the hill. II is about
quarter of mile southeast from the
Washington monument mile and half
northwest from the President street rail-
road station; half mile northeast froU
the Camden street alton; only a single
block from the Ford's opera house, where
Horace Greeley was nominated for the
Presidency one block from the Licking
ton market and two blocks from Barn um's
Hotel.
Tho destruction OF the Maryland Acad.
envy of Arts is the most serious loss which
the city as community meets by the FIRE
The academy was organized few years
ago by number of the wealthier citizens,
and several valuable donations of statuary
were supplemented by purchases by the
society in Europe from which the students
copied. The most notable work, and prob
ably the most valuable, was a copy of the
frieze Of the Parthenon, brought 10 thi'
country at great expense. The works o
value were mostly statutes, and the ma
terals of the directing artists. There wa
also fine collection ofrejected designs b,
Baltimore architects. The academy wa
was just in the dawn of its success, tn
valuable aid and costly gifts Of the pas
year having provided all the requisit
means of study.
Later dispatches say that it is def
ni,ely ascertained that no loss of life al
tended the great fire. A popularity Q
the disaster, was that the fire in severa
p ;;r.ioHs uf the burned district swept rap
idly through the roofs and left the lowe
1v portions Of whole rows scarcely damaged
This seemed TO be caused by the larg
number Of shingled roofs which were $
exceedingly dry as to burn like a flasl
The water was so nearly exhausted .betor
he fire was under control, as to make
necessary to dam uf the cutters and say
supply for. some Of the fire engines
One hundred houses were destroyed on
about sixty families rendered homeless.
The Sun estimates the loss by the fl
at 100000. Good judges estimate Ii
. damage as low as 100000 and $500