GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5228, 21 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.

A destructive fire, causing the loss of several lives and a large amount ot property, occurred on Sept 8. on Thirty-fifth etreet, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, in New York. The fire broke out to Bale’s piano factory, a large establishment turning oat 100 piano* a week, and thie was entirely deetroyed, together with a row of apartment houses on the opposite side of the street, John Graham * wire factory, Connolly’* barrel factory, W. B. Brown’s machine shop, the house ol Louis Smith, a painter, on West Thirty-sixth street, and several building occupied a* stores and tenement*. The loss of prep®'** « largo, feeing estimated at nearly 1.000.000d01e. Idwd. Pockmoster, one of the workmen at the piano factory, jumped from an upper wuidow and was so terribly injured that ho died in a few minutes | a woman named Mary Stewart died from fright in a neighbouring house j Annie Smith, the little daughter of Louie Smith, was suffocated m the burning bouse of her father. Th®_ foregoing are the only death* positively known to have been occasioned by the fire* though it has since been reported that the charred remains of two workmen were afterwords taken from tho ruins. Enmour swelled the list of fatal casualties to over 100. The fire broke out in the third floor of the piano factory, and some workmen who escaped from the stories above, reported having seen some of their fellow-workmen fall to the floor overcome by the smoke j these stories, joined to the reports of the occupants of neighbouring houses, who said they bod heard tho cries of the men who were out off from escape, gave rise to wud rumours that a large number of the unfortu cate workmen had been buried in the ruin*. These fear* were calmed, however, os time passed, by the fact thot nobody was reported missing. Several workmen were seriously injured, and they were sent to the hospital. The spread of the flame* wss so rapid thot a fin engine that hod been stationed near the scene wo* surrounded end destroyed.