Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-22
STEAMER WITH FOOD TO be SENT
FROM PORTLAND.
Public Meeting, to Procure A d for the
Sufferers.
BANGOR SENDS BREAD AND COOKED
MEATS.

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spread, burning all public buildings, stores hotels
and wharves The greatest dread is starvation,
us not grocery or provision store is left.
Fifteen thousand people are homeless, as half
Of the dwellings in the city are burned. They
need oil the bread and cooked provisions they can
get. Their mayor has called public meeting to
provide fol the sufferers. United States consul
Warner telegrsphs the mayor of Portland urging
an instant demand for food. Being on the margin
Of the country, relief must oil 90 from this direc
tion, and should be ample and immediate.
Telegraphic Communication is again suspended
but the fire fire has undoubtedly burned out.
In response to demands for aid from St. John, a
public meeting was called at 1890 O'Clock tbs
afternoon, at City Hall. The meeting was presld-
ed over BY Mayor Butler. He said the immediate
want in st. John was cooked provisions, and that
. boat would leave her regular freight behind to
receive provisions.
The bank presidents were made finance COM
mittee to receive and forward funds. A commit
tee was also appointed 10 purchase and forward
provisions.
Hon. Samuel E. Spring proposed an immediate
subscription, and started with two hundred dol
heis' AAou' W. w. Auomos ioiOWcu WIN the
same amount. Hon. Nathan Webb, A. A. Strout
Esq, and A. X. Shurtlef added fifty dollars each
Deering, Milliken Co.. five hundred dollars,
j. B. Brown & Sons three hundred dollars, Chas.
Mclaughlin & Co. one hu ndred dollars, A. Little
& Co. one hundred dollars. Drummond & Win
ship seventy-fve dollars, w. G. Towbly. j acob
Mcclellan, and II. N. Jose, fifty dollars each, and
many smaller amounts.
The collections will now actively 90 forward.
and to-nights steamer will carry heavy freight
of food for the sufferers
dispatch from st. John at one o'clock this Of.
ternoon. says that after careful estimate it has
been decided that fully one-half of the city is de.
stroyed. Women and children are in the streets
crying for bread, and the scene this noon beggared
description.
The Portland committee will forward to St.
John to-nightl75 barrels bread, $50 cases cooked
beef, 800 pounds cheese. and lot of blankets.
Portlaud's subscription for the St. John suffer.
ers amounts to sc, l22.5O.
BANGOR. June 81. No further news of the St.
John fire has been received. There will be a
meeting Of the citizens this evening TO devise
means of assisting the sufferers. All the bakeries
III hne Siy AoW ~ WoTk, anu To- ulROt u special
train will be sent with bread and cooked meat for
the sufferers.
The confagration at st. John having destroyed
the telegraph communication with this city, no
particulars were received till tonight on the ar
rival Of the train from that city. Fire was first
discovered in building owned by Fairweather,
on the south Of York Point Slip. From here it
spread rapidly, despite the efforts of the fremen,
to Smyth street, thence to Drurv lane, Mill street,
following into Dock street. taking both sides.
Finally news came that house had caught on
Main street from cinders. This the people were
not prepared for, and it swept on, razing house
after house. From Smyth street the fire also went
to Nelson street, then to Robinson's wharf, thence
to South wharf. On Nelson street the fire coming
the other way met it, and the intense heat drove
all away.
Before the fire had assumed formidable proper
tons, men on North wharf wet down vessels. but
the flames caught among them, and could not be
stayed. Soon Trinity church was on fire, and
terror seized the people as i, was learned that the
fire was spreading north, south. east and west to
German, Charlotte Duke and Horsfeld streets.
The Victoria hotel and St. Andrews church
soon took FIRE which with Odd Fellows Hall, were
soon destroyed. From South wharf the flames
entered Ward street, extending to Peters wharf
carrying all before them 10 Water street; thence
to Market square, making jump to Prince street
thence to Princess and King streets. The Acsd-
envy Of Music with all the scenery, and the
Knights Of Pythias Hall in the building were
destroyed.
The following public buildings were burned
Post Office, Bank Of New Brunswick, City build
ing, custom house, MARITIME hank building, in
which are that bank, that Of Montreal and Nova
Scotia, school trustees Office, bank of Nova Sco-
tia building, Academy of Music, Victoria hotel
Odd Fellows hall. No. l engine house, Orange
hall. Temperance hall, Dramatic Lyceum. Vic
tor ia school house. Temple of Honor hail. Barnes
hotel, Royal hotel, st. John hotel, Acadia house,
Brunswick house, Bay View house, International
hotel, Virgins Orphan Asylum.
The following churches are burned st. An
drews. Methodist and Baptist on German street
Christian and st. James on Leinster street; Bsp.
tist, The Centenary, st. Phillips on Carmathene
street; Methodist on Pitt street: St. Davids, Re-
formed Presbyterian on She Eff ED street, and the
Mission House.
AnC ioho"inS "a uesIdSu IcCeNcu Il
R. Burpee, ESQ., from the Carleton side of the
river. dated 1 p. M. to-day: Fire now under
control. Every house south of King street burn.
ok. Every provision warehouse, three banks
post office, fourteen churches, custom house. tele
graph Office, and every wharf in the city, is clean
ed out and oil newspaper Offices. Several small
vessels burned, rest towed out and saved, Fifteer
thousand people are homeless. No household eff
fleets Of any account saved. About five hundred
acres burned over. Estimated loss twenty mil
lion dolars; insurance ab out five million dollars
Thirty bodies recovered. as many more missing.
BANGOR. June 81. At = meeting of the citizens
o.night, over thre thousand dollars were raised
for the 81. John sufferers, and at ten o'clock to.
night . special train having on board Mayor
Hsmn and other prominent citizens, started fol
the distressed city, taking sixty barrels Of crack.
ers, three thousand pounds of cooked meat, and
losves OF bread, tes. coffee. canned meas, baked
beans, hams, fifteen boxes cheese, and blankets in
profuaion alao twelve cOffins for the dad.