Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-30
GREAT FIRE IN BALTIMORE.

BALTIMoRD, July 25-A little after
10 o'clock to-day, fire broke out in
tbs plahing mill Of Joseph Thomas &
Co, on the south side Of Clay street,
between Liberty and Park streets.
The flames soon extended to three ad.
joining blocks and an immense conaa-
grafton is now raging. A stiff south
west breeze is blowing, and immense
cinders are being waited several blocks
even to the Cathedral. The fire is in
the immediate vicinity Of the Presby-
torian Church where the Presbyterian
General Assembly was held The en-
tire southwest corner Of this block has
been burned.
baltimore, July 25-1:30 p, m.
--Tne fire here is still raging. PARK
street, from Lexington to Saratoga, is
In flames, every house being on fire.
lhe fire extends on Clay street, from
Park to Liberty street, and in the rear
OF Liberty, from Lexington to the cor
ner of Liberty street and Saratoga
street.
St. Alphonsus school. on the south
side OF Saratoga street. running back
to Clay street, is gone Stewards sta,
bles, on Lexington street, will be lost.
On Saratoga street, west from Park
street, every house is in flames. Up
Park street, from Saratoga to Mulber-
ry street, at intervals, the roofs on
both sides Of the street are burning.
On Mulberry street the fine row Of
houses, commencing at the northeast
corner Of Park street and extending
east to Cathedral street is on fire.
The Maryland Academy Of Arts, on
Mulberry street, and University of
Maryland, adjoining, are burning.
The Cathedral on the corner Of
Mulberry and Cathedral streets caught
fire but it is thought will be saved.
The wind is steady from the south
east and has carried the burning cinders
around, causing the destruction of
many houses distant from the origin of
the disaster.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 20, 2:30
p. m.-The fire is now under control,
and, with tie aid Of the fire apparatus
obtained from hotels and other sources,
the flames will probably be subdued
There is so much excitement that it is
impossible to get any details at present
of the losses.
New YORK, July 25, midnight
The Heralds special says the burned
district is bounded by Mulberry, Lex
ington, Liberty, and Howard streets,
and comprises ten blocks, divided by
Clay, Saratoga, and Little Pleasant Sts.,
running east and west, and by Park
street running north and south.
In estimating the total loss there is
wide difference of opinion, some plac-
ing it as high as 100000; but exper
fenced insurance men tonight think
that between S500.000 and 100000
will cover all the losses The insu-
rance canot be estimated tonight. but
it is confined chiefly to the Fireman's,
Baltimore, Harvard, Home, and Ger
man of this city.
NIGHT ATTACKS OF CHOLERA
DR.. T. S. Bell, OF Louisville, Ky, ha.
given to the public, through the Cou
raer-Journal, several instructive article
on the origin, nature and distribution
of the Cholera, in which particula
attention is called to the fact that tht
disease generally attacks persons i,
the night time or eorly in the morning
| He regards cholera as malarial in its
1 origin. In the Courier Journal of tn
| 18th Instant he says:
sBut the main force of my state
ment is untouched. It is an import.
ant one. I repeat it. No case of cho
lera has ever yet occurred, except a
the result of sleeping at night where
the cause is, and no amount of expo
sure in the daytime, without the slee]
at night in the locality, ever gave the
disease. No mere sojourner during
the past 500 years has ever slept a
night in the malarious season, in The
Pontine marshes (near Rome), with
cut dying. The Abruzzi mountain
eers, who put in such crops as ar
raised there, sleep in daytime, bu
never at night. All testimoy that has
spoken on this point in reference II
yellow fever testiies that no amour
Of exposure in daytime is perilous, bu
that the only danger is in sleeping il
the locality at night.
! Dispatches day or two ago con