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Show O it EAT 0H,VGKAHO, St. Johuv, N il.. Xear)y Destroyed. De-stroyed. HiiNincsM mid lt:niu 1 uj; II oil Mrs, sileutcs t uuiuuv(l. Lon Toll to Fifteen Millions I usuniiice Stx. Milllous. St. Johns, N.B., 20. This after noon at half past two, a firo bioke out in McLaughlin's boiler gIiod, Portland street. A strong northwesterly northwest-erly wind was blowing. In an incredibly in-credibly short space of time the Hamcs burst out, carrying with them hundreds hun-dreds of housce, stores, lumber yards, etc. The fire spread rapidly toward tho bunines8 portion of St. John, clearing in its career entire streets of buildings. Dock Btreet, Market square, the whole of Priuca William and Atwaler streets, the south side and part of the north side ol King atieet, King's square, German, Canterbury, Can-terbury, Princess, Dake, Mutieter, Charlotte, Organe, the whole ol the lower cave district, Sydney and Car wathen streets, a portion of Went worth and Pitt streets, in luct the entire city south of King street, including in-cluding the wharves and shipping. Among the public buildings de Btroyed are the nty postuflice, valued at $200,000, the custom bouae, Victoria hotel, Acadimy of Music, Dramatic Lyceum, lloyal hotel, Bank of Ntw Brunswick, Maratirne bank, agencies of the bank ot Montreal and Nova Scotia savings banks, ictoria schcclhouse, grnm-mar grnm-mar school, Trinity church, St. Andrews An-drews church, Cutennary church, German Methodist church, city hall, i water commistiuners' ohice, the ' banking houses of Simon, Jones Si Co., George Phillips and MiLellan it Co , the Wt'.-tcrn Union telegraph office, Daily Trie rap i new (paper, oiliees ol the ily Newn, Globe, Freeman and Wi tch nan newspa-pt-rs, the news roi ma, all insurance othces, Ketchel building nud law o trices. Every wholesale and nearly all the retail house were destroyed. Tho only btink saved was the B.mk of British North America. Several schooners and larger vrsflfls were burned, liafts laden with goods and housYhold wares readi'y caught tire and were couiumctl. The tiorca wind drove the Himes to tho south ard east and ilea t roved everything they reach I'd to tho water's edge Fi men and two m'ams ara U'Ht known to havA lust their liv!", and many are niitiinc Tho -'Ihmj is estimated esti-mated at from lO.O.Ht.OOO to L5 000,000 and the msnrani-e will noi it is tnmighi exceeds $0,000,000. ' g Thousands of people wnnder through the PtreeU', homeless and in despair. Tho destruction of provisions of all kinda seem to point to a famine. Reliel must come speedily or many will perish from want. - lew saved T even their clothing. The tire isatillip raging. No ln-pea ate entertained ofji. extinguishing it unlil it has exhausted itself tor want of material to keep it L alive. The wind h;is gone down, but L the fire still burns fiercely. The gas j works are de-itroyed and the remainder t of the city is io darkness. The area burned is nearly 200 acres. New York, 21. United Status Cou-eul Cou-eul D. B. Warner at St. Johns, N. B., telegraphs Mayor Kfy that St. Johns is almost totally destroyed. All the public buildings are burned. Few business houses are led. Fully one- , half ol the residences aT i" ashes. ' Send all the mil you cam; "15,000 i . pooule are homeless. : |