The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-02
TODAY IN HISTORY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.
Beginning Of the Great Fire In London.

Beginning OF the Great Fire In London.
Scarcely had the curse of the plague
bc0n lifted from London when, on the
evening OF September . 1866. there began
the greatest fire that London ever ex,
perienced, which eventually destroyed
about thirds of The city sis incluuii,s it,s
cathedral. the Royal Exchange and
about one hundred churches.
The conhagration started In the house
Of a baker named Farryner. near the
Tower. and. high wind blowing, 1t con-
tinued for three nights and days
An admirable brief description OF the
fire Is given in the famous diary OF John
Evelyn. on the 3rd he wrote: The nre
having continued all night Il may call
that night which was as light as day
ing | went TO the Bankside and saw the
whole south part OF ye city burning from
Cheapside to ye Thames. and all along
streete. Genchurch streete, Gracious
streete. and so along TO Bralnards cas-
tie. and was now taking hold Of 81.
Pnule,s church, to which the scaffolds
contributed exceedingly,
The conflagration was so universal
the beginning ! knew not by what de,
spondency of fate. they hardly stirred
TO quench It. so that there was nothing
heard or seen but crying out and lamen
tation. running about like distracted
creatures without At all attempting to
save even their goods such strange
H. u
burned both in breadth and in length,
the churches, public halls. exchange. hos
pitals, monuments and ornaments, leap
Ing after a prodigious manner from house
to house and strecte to Streete, at great
distances one from We other, for ye heate
with n long set OF faire and warme
weather, had even ignited the air. and
prepard the materials TO conceive the
fire. which devour'd after an incredible
manner. houses, furniture and every
thing.
Here / saw the Thames covered with
goods floating. all the barges and boats
laden with what some had time and
courage to save. as on we other, We carts
etc, carrying out TO the fields. which for
many miles were strew'd with movables
OF all sorts, and tents erected to shelter
both people and what, goods they could
frey aspect, like top OF a burning
oven. the light seen about forty miles
round about for many nights
God grant that my eyes may never
behold the like, now seeing above 10000
houses all in one flame: the noise and
cracking and thunder of the mpetuous
dren the hurry of people, the fall of
towers. houses and churches. was alilke
an hideous stornie, and the aire all about
so ho, and inflamd that at last one was
were forc'd TO stand still and let the
flames burn on. which they did for neere
two two miles in length and one In breadth
reach'd upon fifty miles in length.
September 4.-The burning still RACES
inner hma spe 3ne eS se5 Stones es o
Pauies few like granadas. ye melting
lead running downe the streetes in
streame and the very pavements glowing
with fiery rednesse. so as no horse or
man was able to tread on them and the
demolition had stopped all the passages,
SO that no help could be applied The
drove the flames forward. Nothing but
ye Almighty power of God was able to
stop them; for yaine was ye help OF man
Whitehall. Oh, the confusion there was
then at that court II pleads his Maty
(Majesty) to command me TO be among
the rest to look after the quenching Of
Fetter Lane and to preserve II possible
that part OF Holborn. 1t now
pleascs God by abating the wind and by
spirit into them, that the fury OF 1t be
gan sensibly to abete at noone.
There was yet no standing neare the
burning and glowing ruins by neare
The poore inhabitants. were dis;
Moorefields, as far as Highgate and sew
some under miserable hutts and hovells.
many withou, rag or any necessary
utensils. bed or board, who. from deli
catenessc. riches and easy accommoda-
tious in stately and well-furnishd houses
were now reduced to EXTREMIST misery
and poverty.
"In that calamtous condition I re-
turned with a sad heart to my house.
blessing and adoring the mercy OF God
TO me and mine. who in the midst of all
this RUNE was like Lot in my little Zoar.
safe and sound"
September . is the birthday of John
Howard, the English phlanthropist
G726); John B. White the American ar
list 07SD. Thomas H. Hicks, the Mary
land Statesman G79S); Murat Ha]stead.
journalist GS29ls William p. Frye, Maine
cal economist ClSsa] Eugene Field ' Jour
nalist and poet GS50). and Caspar Whit
ney. author and editor GS6D, IT Is the
date OF the death OF Marie Therese.
Princess de Lambale. murdered by a
revolutionary mob in Paris l729); Cen
eral jean Victor Moreau CS13) and John
Gray Foster, the American engineer and
general GS4O.