ONFLAGRATION!
A
more awful and
destructive
fire than that of last night,
has not afflicted Philadelphia during the last 10 years. It originated
about 8 o'clock, in an extensive frame building, occupied by several
Mechanics, situated in Dock, between Second and Third streets. The wind,
which was westerly during the conflagration, blew with extreme violence;
and rendered hopeless every human effort to preserve the extensive block
of buildings, bounded by third and Dock streets, and Goforth and Carter's
allies. the zeal and activity of the citizens, however were judiciously
directed to the preservation of the houses lying in an easterly direction,
exposed to a continual shower of fire. The following is as correct list
of
the buildings destroyed or damaged, as our time would enable us to
prepare. . . Three frame houses on the east side of Relief alley, extending northward to Carter's alley, occupied by A. Ramage, printer's joiner, destroyed. . .
A frame blacksmith's shop, adjoining by A. Ramage, destroyed.
READFUL FIRE!
Between seven and eight
o'clock last
evening a fire broke out in a trunk maker's shop, on the north side of
Dock street, between the bank of the United States and that of
Pennsylvania. It being immediately in the neighborhood of several wooden
buildings occupied by cabinet makers, carpenters, blacksmiths and
curriers, the flames soon made such progress, in spite of every effort,
to threaten complete destruction to that part of the city. Though every
possible exertion was made by the citizens in general, and particularly by
those enterprising young men who have formed themselves into hose
companies, the fire continued for more than four hours to increase with
alarming rapidity. At length, having reached Carter's alley, on the
north, Third street on the west, and Goforth alley on the east, it was
effectually checked and its progress arrested. Owing, however, to the
violence of the wind from the S. West, a three story brick house in Front
Street, at a distance of nearly two squares, took fire, and with the one
adjoining it was consumed. Several vessels on the river also took fire,
but were extinguished without material injury.