New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-09

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-Loss $l00,OOO.-At
ten minutes of one o'clock, yesterday after
noon, fire broke out in the kitchen OF Mr..
Robert Howe. No. 81 Vaudeville street,
between Royal and Dauphine streets. The
fire department were on hand with their
spread rapidly in spite OF their exertions.
There was a scarcity of water, and steady
breeze blowing Mr.. Howes residence was
soon DESTROYED; loss $4,000. The fire then
Guickly demolished the double frame house,
No. - Vaudeville street, also owned by
Mr.. Howe; loss $4,000. The double frame
house, No. n Vaudeville street, owned
by Mr.. Howe, was next burned; loss
$4,000. The house, No. 81, owned by Mrs.
Turner, was; destroyed; loss $4,000, and
5000 loss on furniture. The following
buildings, in rapid succession, were swept
away by the fire: A small frame house,
owned and occupied by Mr.. Cuddy.,
loss $500; one small frame house owned
and occupied by Widow Mareen, loss $l6Oo;
the double two story frame oullding occu
pied as a grocery store by Mr.. Tom Griffin;
the two story brick house owned by Mr.
Svres: a double frame house owned by Mrs.
Cruise; frame house No. 80 Vaudeville
street. owned by Mrs. Macon; the frame
houses Nos. 81 and 81, owned by Mr.. Craig;
the single frame house No. Is Mandevllle
street, owned by Christian Meister, loss
$500; the single frame house NO. 4oo
ROYAL street, owned by Jacob Levy; the
house No 459 Royal street, loss $1,000; the
two story brick house No. AGO Royal street,
owned by Mr. Levy, loss $4,000; the double
frame houses Nos. 46l, 462, 4b3 and 464 were
all destroyed; No. 462, owned and Occu.
pied by Captain Hanorn; No: 1853. owned
and occupied by Mrs. Schneider; No. 464,
owner unknown; the double frame house,
No 465. owned and occupied by MIR. Seals,
hOn91.
owned and occupied by Mr.. trick,
loss $500; the single frame house, No.
46S, loss $1,000; the double frame
house. No. 400, owned and occupied
by Mr.. Young, loss $500; the double
frame house No. 40 Royal street, loss
and occupied by Mr.. Baker, loss $780, No.
l72, single frame house, owned by Mr..
Bell, loss $l300; No. AIS, corner of Royal
and Spain streets. brick house, loss $1,000;
No. 476 Royal street, owned and occupied
by Mr. Llambias, and the two story dwell
ing adjoining, loss $4,000; No. 81 Spain street
a two story brick dwelling. owned by MI
Llalnbas, loss SlCoo; NO. o. s SRa'H NJ slTee.
was partly destroyed, loss SOU; NO. *,
frame house owned by james OConnor,
was totally destroyed, loss $1,000; No. "A, a
two story frame house, owned and occupied
by James O'Connor, was totally destroyed
loss $1,000: No. rs. a frame house, also
owned by Mr.. OConnOr, was likewise
destroyed; the kitchen attac he'd to the
house No. no Greatmen street, owned by
Mr.. Collins, was destroyed.
This fire, apart from the direct pecuniary
loss inflicted. must be regarded as peculiar
ly and painfully disastrous By this ter
rible conhagration upwards of hundred
families are left houseless and homeless.
Most of the sufferers are of that class of in
dustrious and thrifty, hard working people
who. by dint of saving had amassed sufficient
means to purchase an humble home. To
see these people turned upon the streets is
most melancholy.
The origin of the fire is not positively
known but it is supposed that this great
calamity is the result of accident.