The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-06-29

BOsToN, June 2l-The following is a de- tailed account of the property destroyed. and the territory burned over: Prince Will liam street runs from Market Square to Reeds Point, and the fire seems to have gone thither. IL was entirely occupied as q bu- siness street, and was the location of the heaviest business trades in the city; in fact of almost every class of business. Many or the buildings were very fiac ones. having been built within comparatively short timc as this street has been the locality which most of the serious fires which have visited ihe city in years past have devasta- ted On it were several elegant new stone buildings, occupied as insurance offices, and many Of the old buildings were of solid granite. and very substantial. The fire must have worked from this point to one of the streets parallel with King street. sweeping all before it n G.rmlIn street. Between
 Prince William and Gc-main s,Ic l. were qUi.c a number of marrow streets and courts, crowded with wooden huiIding-, many ot tlem very old, aud occupied almost Wholcly for business. In this square were several newspaper offices. Reaching Germain street on the slde toward Prince William, the tise strikes a good number of small stores.
 Here. also, WAS the hest hotel in the city. the Victoria, said to have been consumed. IL was the best hoiel, perhaps, east of Bos- ton. On Germaln sreet was the oldest Episcopal church in the city, and the old grammar school building, beth of which are probably burned. The dispatches do not say how t-r down Germain street the fire went. If i, reached Queens Square, it .o psumed the finest residences h the city.
 HISTORY OF THE FIRE.
 ST JouS N. B., June 2l.-Yesteriay was ,bs mos, calam,- nus day eser known in the annals of st. John. Nothing could have come more suddenly than he lire which de- stroved so many valuable lives, wasted pro- perty by millions, arrested many and vaTled forms of industry. and spread not only deSo- lation, but terror and constcTnatioD around The loss on hotels, churches, school house. banks. etc, was made thousand times more painful by the amcntable destruction of life accompanying il. The fire WIS dis- covered in building on the south oi York Point Slip. next tO boiler shop. To the latter building the flames had spread before the iiremen had reached the scene. The en- gincs did their best to stop the flames. but all was in vain. The flames then spread to Hare's wharf. which was quickly consumed, and the fire broke out with roar into Smith street; from there the flames spr' ad into D ury lane and Mill street, following the latter into Dock street, taking both sides. Before this, however, the rear of the Lon don House and adjacent buildings had been attacked. Fully five hundred acres Of the city is said to have been destroyed ana fifteen thousand souls left homeless and without food or clothes, while sixty persons are known to have peri>hed. Contributions have been started in all the principal cities and towns throughout the Domiaio1 and the United States for the relief of the saf, fererS. The insurance companies are gong forward and express their readiness to pay the losses. and iniact everything Is being ionc that i> in the power of the people . everywhere to alleviate the suffering multi ude.