Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-02
WORK Or FIENDS.
The Great ConflagratiOn in the
City of Mandalay.
Two and a Half Square Miles of Ter.
ritory Burned Over.
Impossible to Compute the
Number of Lives Lost.

Impossible to Compute the
Number of Lives Lost.
Whole Families Found in the Ruins OF
Their Dwellings-The Native Portion
of the City Practically Obliterated, In
cluding the Pagoda of Mandalay, the
Finest Piece of Native Burmese Archi-
lecture, and Five Other Pagodas-The
Telegraph Omce the Only Governme Mt
Building Destroyed-A &6O, 200 Incen-
diary Fire in Rangoon.
RANGooN, April 2.-The latest dis
patches from Mandalay say that scores
of lives have been lost, but on account
of the confusion no accurate computa-
ton of the number is yet possible. The
suffering is extreme. Thousands of
families, without food or cover, slept in
the fields Wednesday night, and unless
food, tents and clothing be sent from
other cities, many are likely to succumb
to sickness, induced by starvation and
exposure. The surgeons of the garrison
are entirely unable to treat a quarter Of
those suffering from burns, fractured
limbs and fright. Calls have been sent
out for physicians to come to the scene
at once and several military surgeons
from the city have responded.
Saved Many Lives.
The British and native soldiers and
the Mandalay police, the last dispatches
say, succeeded in saving many of the
new brick buildings erected since the
British took possession. The whole ma
tive portion of the city is practically OBJ
liberated. Most of the buildings saved
have been converted into hospitals for
the sick and dying. Measures have been
taken to bury the dead bodies as fast as
they are taken from the ashes and iden-
titled. In the ruins of several houses the
bodies of whole families have been
found. The search is conducted by the
soldiery and police, as the natives are too
much panic stricken to help in the work.
Work of Incendiaries.
The story that the Mandalay fire was
started by the accidental spilling of hot
Goals is not credited here, as it is
thought that the occurrence at this
time shows the existence of a plot to
terrorize the British in Burmah. Much
apprehension is felt here for the safety
of the citv, and the movements of
natives are closely watched.
The fire originated near Catholic
school and spread quickly to the tele-
graph Office and Dyer's brewery. Thence
it was communicated to the long lines
of flimsy bamboo huts, which extend
for two or threw miles through the
middle of the inner city and include the
native quarters. The fire went with the
wind for a mile and a half, driving the
people in crowds before it, and leaving
O smooth track of ashes The police
and soldiers made no effort to save the
natives huts, as each hut went up in
blaze the moment it caught fire. The
soldiers We're ordered to help save the
women and children, and they ran
through the streets picking mp those
who had been trampled down in the
panic.
Twelve hours after it broke out, the
fire abated and it was reported that it
had been extinguished. Thousands of
people in the eastern town, who had
fled in anticipation of the fires spreading
to their homes, then hurried back. They
were badly back in the town when
flames burst out in cluster of huts half
a mile from the limits of the former fire
and were spread throughout the Mysu-
dan quarter by the high wind. The
people who had returned thinking to
flee back to the fields were met by
crowds who had not yet learned of the
new danger, and there was frightful
scene of panic and brutality, during
which women and children were borne
down and trodden on, many were NOR
tally injured and hundred or more
sustained severe injuries.
The fire spread in the eastern town to
ward the city, but after an hour the
wind changed and drove the flames back
to the lookup behind the law courts.
Both buildings were destroyed. 1t is
not known whether the prisoners es-
capped. From the court house the flames
were blown to the Incompatible Pagoda
or Mandalav, the finest piece of native
in Burmah. This was de-
stroyed and within an hour the five
other pagodas in the same district had
been reduced to ashes Before the fire
in the eastern town had burned out the
third fire broke out near the British can
tonments. This completed practically
the destruction of the city.
The breaking out of the fire in the
eastern town at spot quite remote from
the track of the first fire is regarded as
strong evidence of incendiarism.
The third fire is supposed to have been
started by hostile natives purposing the
destruction of the garrison headquar
ters.
The original fire ragged for fourteen
hours and burned over two and half
square miles of territory, that is, from
China street to Obo.
The government buildings are saved
with the exception of the telegraph
office.
Big Fire In Rangoon.
Wednesday night there was big fire
in this city and G60, 900 worth of
was destroyed. The English
residents believe that the fire both here
and in Mandalay were incendiary. The
native population is infested with secret