The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-30
A Terrible Contlagration.
Canal Street Illuminated.
Loss About 100000.

Last night about o'clock, the ALARM of
fire was turned in from box 81, corner of
Canal and Camp streets.
1t was soon discovered that the large
grocery establishment of Messrs. G. NJ.
Bayly & Pond. Nos. "a, &c. 81, 40 and AZ
Canal street, was on fire i'll several places
From appearances it seemed that the fire
was the work of an incendiary, for when
the doors were broken open the fire was dis
covered in three or four different places and
had made considerable Roadway.
Owing TO the iron shutters in the second
and third stories, the water from the engines
could not etfectually reach the flames, thus
giving them time to make great Roadway.
The flames then burst through the roof of
the stores, which illuminated Canal street
for several blocks down. The engines then
played upon the tops of the houses, but the
fire was now well under way, and the
flames bid defiance to the torrent of water
that fell upon them.
A general alarm was sounded when the
engines from all parts Of the city FASTENED
to the scene of action, and combined their
efforts to save the adjoining stores, but the
fire communicated to the roof f A. Billaud's
soap establishment, No. 3 Tchoupitoulas
street, burning through the roof and fourth
story, thence to the liquor establishment of
Messrs. Berceir & De Smiet, No. 5Tchoupitou-
las street, doing considerable damage to the
upper stories of that establishment.
For some time it was feared that the gro
Gerry store of Messrs. Meyers & Levy, No.
IA Canal and 63 Common street, would meet
with a similar fate, but through the untir-
ing exertions of the firemen no other dam
age was done to that establishment except
by water; the stock was somewhat dam
aged.
The stock of Messrs. Bayly & Pond is
estimated by those gentlemen at $3.50, 200,
but is fully covered by insurance. The only
amounts that could be ascertained were
$4,000 in the New Orleans Insurance Com
pany, and $4,000 in the Sun The own
ers of the buildings could not be learned,
though we understand from good authority
that the property is all covered in good COM
panies.
The entire loss as near as could be ascer-
tanned is estimated at $1,000 or over. The
fire burned through from Canal to Common
streets, taking everything it its headlong
course. The scene on Canal street, when
the flames came through the windows and
roofs of the buildings, presented spec
tacle of terrific grandeur. The forked
tongues of the flames tapping around the
colored lights high into the air, and piercing
i'll fury the columns of smoke, presented a
picture seldom witnessed in this city.
The group of nine steamers on the corner
of Canal and Tchoupitoulas streets, hard at
work, splitting volumes of sparks from their
chimneys, with their FURNISHED ornaments
glIJtering in the night, attracted the atten-
ton of the thousands of spectators who
gathered to witness the devastations of the
fire fend.
This community are under many obliga-
tions to the gallant members of our Fire
Department. under the supervision of that
efficient Chief Tom O'Conner, for the pre-
vention of more disastrous consequences.
Every member in the Department seemed
to vie with each other in their endeavors to
control and check the advance of the vora-
cious flames. As we go to press the flames
are fully under the control of the engines
ON the ground.