The Republican journal., 1873-01-02
Sarnum's Museum AGAIN Burned.


NEW YORK, Dee %, Barnum's Museum
ie7 once more IN ashes. 1t took fire tbi.
morning about half past three o'clock. aut
4'l snort time was reduced to a mass O
''iling RUNS. Its burning caused tho
-I"aleSl CONSERVATION in the immediate
htighborhood, which was caused. to {
-'eat extent, by the high wind and the
lear mat the fire would stretch across the
NiFcel ana seize the Academy of Music
NhoftIY alter iour O'Clock the Waterman
Nhdred Nelson, discovered the flames in
,i'' nollef-room among the apparatus fol
''atlh@ the building. He first saw the
smoke issuing from trap door. and
ignorant of the mischief, attempted to ex-
'n2ulSh The fire alone. This he was I'M
aoie TO do, and after sounding an alarm
he endeavored to set some of the more
valuable and harmless animals in the
menagerle AT liberty. He broke open the
cage OF the Giratfes, animals for which
Mr. Barnum has paid many thousand dol
lars; hut the poor creatures were too
certified to make any attempt at escape
anu We're speedily suffocated in the dense
smoke The performing elephant Jean
nttte, and the little one. Gvpsov were
S1gacious CROUCH to avail themselves of
me opportunity afforded them and were
.''i rescued. A large elephant recently
imported refused to stir and persisted in
me names. wo camels were also rescu-
rd. although with the greatest difficulty
u very short time had elapsed since the
discovery OF the fiji but the circus build-
~ burned IKE under and it was mpossi-
nt r. remain in it, The fire department
Dt1E VT
worked zealously and well. but the flames
n'tH opianed too powerful a mastery.
ne cold was intense, the thermometer
Standing four degrees above zero. while A
biting wind swept through Fourteenth
street almost freezing the tiremen not
outstanding ,he heat Of the flames 1t
WAS soon apparent that the adjoining
hulldngs We're in great danger, including
thu Academy OF Music, and second
alarm was given. Fresh engines soon ar
rived on the scene. but the ire continued
VI -pread and the destruction of the entire
.loCk was imminent At this moment the
'.1 was appalling. The roals of the lions.
gers and panYhers as they writhed in
agony. mingled with the death shrieks of
lther wilo ANIMALS, while above all were
hr1rd the trul petings OF the unfortunate
epnant- A. the flames approached him
roared SO terribly that it seemed as If
fDrre had been an explosion. The help
psS animal tossed his trunk around frantic
1tlN. He got upon his knees and rubbed
1i- massive head against the earth At
.asi- however, the flames enveloped him.
1ud with tremendous howl he fell over
-, expired The Two Abvssinian lions
and the pair of Bengal tigers dashed their
tails against their cages, wherein they
we've locked, and rOared and howlpd in the
most terrible manner They sprang
a.rlinst the bars shot ike massive bolts
NJ The sides OF their cells and made the
most desperate struggle to esgl, sarnc, Thn
}.in, They n yffriaitl 10 of the buildno pre-
"''''i the possibility of any OF these ami
mails TO making their escape even if they
had been able to force themselves from
~ T cages. 1t is perhaps fortunate in one
SENSE that this was the case In the mean
nr the flames ragged with redoubed yio-
"nce The galvanized iron which cover
~ tn" building rolled mp in shrvelled
cfolls. and tongues OF fire leaped up to
'h" SKY The tlrGmen. clad in ice. Vainlv
lah"red manluly, bat TO little purpose.
The flames, Notwithstanding their utmost
'nH"avorS. caught The great tour-story
brick building. No. III East Fourteenth
street, occupied by I. 9rote, worker in
worry and IN wonderfully short space
~ Time completely Quilted it. Almost
simultaneously Grace Chapel was enyel-
"prd 'n t1ames. which in Il few moments
poured IN great volumes from the root.
windows and doors. Nor did The II schief
-nt here. Adjoining the church is the
iDll-e ut Mis- Lawrence mother of A r