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4 few minutes, enveloped in flames, which height.


ned BY the violence Of the wind, mocked every


ycrtion to check their progress.


The next building. which caught fire, were the


sy Lancasterian School House. in the rear. (tron-


np on Fen Church street and Mrs. BrambIe's


yelling, IAN elevated wooden house) on the North;


nd heyond these, the fire swept every building


the large brick house at the corner of Mariners


t,eet on the East side of Church street, and to the


;orthern extremity of Fen Church street, West
y ';ie. including all those on Mariners street.
The sight was awful and heart rending beyond


description. 1t was not regular progressive fire !:
fl had been, our fire companies would soon have
&hecked its progress; but houses remote from the
kody of the fire, as well as those near, snted
kv the falling flakes and brands, and as many as
Twelve or fifteen, in detached situations, were on
lire at the same moment.


We have not time to give any thing like proba-
HE estimate Of the amount of property destroyed.
n the names of the individual sufferers. Between
Eorty and fifty families have been rendered house
esq. and the loss cannot be much short of 10000
[loars The Church, (ncuding lbs elegant organ
was insured for fifteen thousand dollars, in the Mu
kual Assurance Office, and we understand that most
of the houses Of any considerable value, also
Insured The fire might have been accidental, but
There is too much cause to apprehend that it was
|Ae work Of the lurking ncendary.