The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-30
THE DUBLIN FIRE.
Terrific OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF VViIdness
and HewiIderment-AS Sea of Eire-11Il-
lions Worth Destroyed.


Manchester England) Guardian.
!, The alarm was given at the Winetav
. ern street ire-brigade Office between
: eight and nine o'clock on Friday night
: On the brigade reaching the scene O
the outbreak malthouse in Chambe
street was found to be in flames. TIL,
premises are situated in the very cente
! of a vast range of warehouses and in
closed by the dwellings of perhaps som,
of the poorest inhabitants of the city
The malt store, which belonged to Mr.
Reid, is surrounded on all sides by tn,
extensive bonded warehouses of Mr.
Lawless, wherein was stored abou
eighteen hundred puncheons of whiskies
brandies, wines, etc. The arrival of thu
brigade was too late, and it is question
able whether their arrival even at {
much earlier period would have en-
abled them to become masters of the
situation, as the flames burst forth will
appalling fury. The stores caught fire
in a few minutes, and from thai
moment all hope of staying the
progress of the flames was at an end
Out from under the doors of the ware
house at the southern wing the
blue blazing liquid began to issue and
spread itself over the streets, running
along the channels and burning every.
thing before it. The fire increased in
intensity and ferceness, and soon the
whole block of buildings forming the
western side of Chamber street and the
northern side of Ardee street looked
like mass of
ROARING AND LEAPING FLAMES,
that threw up huge forked tongues as
fresh fuel was added by the bursting OF
the barrels of LIQUID with which the
place was stocked. At the corner OF
Ardee and Chambers streets the house
of Mr.. Lawrence FitzsimOn, publican,
was swallowed up in the confagration,
and its quota of infammable liquid
added fresh energy to the flames. Hap
PLY the owner, who was an invalid, was
removed from the house to a place of
safety in good time, but there was no
time to remove furniture or aught of the
property. Running along Ardee street,
and licking the walls of the houses as it
passed on, the burning liquid sped
through Mill street and Chamber street,
and CONSERVATION spread on every side.
Hemmed in by fire, apparently, on all
sides, the chance OF escape, either for
the people or their houses, seemed small
indeed. A scene of wildness ensued,
men rushing about with children in
their arms, and watching for favorable
moment to dash through the blue flames
into places of safety, while others, in
their eagerness to save their property,
| threw furniture and effects out IF the
windows, either to be dashed to pieces
on the pavement below, or burned. or
CHARRED BY THE SEA OF FIRE
| which almost covered the streets. The
women wrung their hands and seemed
Supplied with fear, and had to be car
ried away forcibly; while even in houses
well removed from danger the panic
was scarcely less. Rooms, which had
been little models of neatness and com.
fort of their sort, were, in a few mo-
ments, opsy-turvey, and the furniture
either thrown out into the street or piled
in proximity to the windows in the case
of the necessity arising of having it re-
moved. There were, unfortunately,
large numbers of those who are ever
ready to seize upon such an opportunity
for disorder and riot, and who, darting
through by-ways and courts. reached
the places where the burning spirits ran
in streams along the channels or lay in
pools in the streets, as yet unlighted,
and, with their boots and hats converted
into vessels for the occasion, they col
lected the liquor and drank it freely.
Some actually lay on their faces and
drank till they became insensible, re-
Winding one of the scenes described by
Dickens as having occurred during the
Gordon riots. In this state many were
conveyed to the hospital, while others
were still ready to rush forward to take
their places.
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSIONS
were heard underground, caused by the
burning liquor coming in contact with |
the gases collected III the sewers. In |
Mill street the scene witnessed when |
the liquor passed round tie corner from |
Ardee street cannot be well described. |
House after house was ignited, the |
flames passing under the doors and |
through the windows. In this manner |
soon one entire side of the street was
a mass of fire. On reaching the tannery |
the flames burst forth with awful fury, |
and in few hours the skeletons alone |
remained of the building. Here the |
train was stopped, and its further pro-
gress barred, for a large bank of |
cinders, ETC., was speedily
heaped up across the street, and |
to it. Fortunately, too, the tannery
was isolated, and formed the corner of
a street, and the flames did not stretch
to the opposite side. In Ardee street
and Chamber street the road was ripped
up by the soldiers, and barricades formed,
which stopped the progress of the
liquid, and all further danger so far as
that source was concerned was at an
end. The bonded stores, however, con-
tinued to blaze, and the wall fell in with
TERRIFIC CRASH.
At one time the scaffolding in front of
the new wing, which is now being added
to the Coome hospital by Sir Arthur
Guinness, caught fire, and the building
was for time in great danger, but the
scaffolding was pulled down and the
flames extinguished. The military pres
ent included detachments of the second
queens, the fiftieth, and several COM
panies of the sixth dragons and artil-
lery. and were under command of Col.
Fellowes, assistant adjutant- general. A
number of barrels of whisky were saved
and stored in Cork street, under the
charge of a military guard, who found
it necessary to fix bayOnets in order to
keep back the mob. Up to the hour of
our going to press thirty seven houses
have been destroyed, involving loss,
it is estimated, of over one hundred
thousand pounds. The liquor in the
bonded stores was valued at flfty-tour
thousand pounds. This loss is, how
ever, partially covered by insurance.
The fire continues to burn, and it is not
expected to be extinguishcd for con-
siderable time.