The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-01
BURNING OF MANDALAY.
Nearly All Of tho Capital Burned
:. to Aahos.
ONE DISASTER FOLLOWS ANOTHER.
Twenty-Five Thousand Families Made
Homeless and Twenty-Five Hundred
People Burned Sovorcly.-.Two Hun.
drcd Lives Lost...Thrco Fires Oc-
currcd.-.aIcasre Dctnils...Tho An.
nrchist Crisis in Parls.--Rnchoval's
Crlmes.--oihcr Foreign Ncws.

LONDON, March 3l.-Tho brief dis.
patch from Rangoon sont last night gave
substantially all the facts SO far known
to tho outside world in regard to the
conllagration at Mandalay, tho capital
city OF Burmah. This dispatch said
simply that threc.quartcrs OF tho town
had already boon DESTROYED including
the now telegraph Offices, and tho old
palace. and that there had becn great
loss OF life. Tho use OF "already" 'im-
piled thatnt the time tho dispatch was
forwarded from Rangoon the fire was
still in progress.
Efforts to obtain further detail have
so far been altogether unavailing. Tho
destruction of tho telegraph by reason
OF the burning OF the offices has cut tho
city off from electric communication
with the outside world, and no further
news can be had until connection is re.
stored. Tho only news received in Cal.
cutta is that printed in the Statesman OF
this morning, which says that up to
noon yesterday half the town had been
destroyed. No mention was mado in
this report OF any loss Of lie.
The special dispatches from Raugoon
published this morning in the Times
and Chronicle. which report larger de-
struction OF life than given in the States
mans dispatch agree in the statement
that the connagraiion has been attends
cd with serious loss OF life.
About $4,000 families will be home
less. Chief Secretary Symes has up-
pcaled to the English in Rangoon for
aid. The total number OF those severe
ly burned is thought to be about TWEEN
ty-tivc hundred. The loss 'of life may
reach 200, and perhaps more.
$3.50 p. MA dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram Company from Calcutta, Just
received, gives Intelligence received in
that city up to o'clock this afternoon.
According to this dispatch the fire at
Mandalay occurred in the vicinity of
the Catholic school. From there it
spread to Dyer's brewery, and from
there along the streets OF native houses.
These tlimsy wooden huts caught fire in
rapid succession until miles OF streets
were ablaze.
80 LATER. ,l
\ 9p. m.-The fire that started in Man.
dalay yesterday burned itself out alter
causing immense damage. To-day there
were two fresh outbrcaks. Tho first,
which occurred IN tho eastern portion
OF the city, had its origin in cluster OF
( Ihuts. The flames spread for mile,
when the wind changed and drove them
back to the law courts. Thence they.
extended towards tho "Incomparnble
Pasoda," destroying a number Of large
and valuable pagoda's in It's path.
/. Tonight n third fire has just broken
out in the British cantonment, and the
flames are raging iuriously. It is i'm.
possible rs yet for any estimate OF the
money loss, but it will be immense.
II ,#ss THE LATEST.
/ The fire broke out at 8 o'clock
Wednesday morning and ragged for four
teen hours. The whole city was de-
stroycd from China street to Obo, dis
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