Show great fire st at new orleans one of the most terrible destructive conflagrations flag rations which ever occurred on the levee says the new orleans true velta delta took place on the ath of feb it commenced on board of the steamboat charles belcher capt carlisle at 3 and ceased only with the destruction of property amounting to something like a million of dollars six steamboats and a large freight barge with their cargoes cargo eq were all d destroyed estro y e d an and d we regret to add that the loss of life cannot be com computed at less than thirty five or forty mostly neg |