. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the build-ejs below Front Street, from Murray. harf to the Fly Market, over fifty inumber—many of them large andell-stocked stores—were in ashes intout four hours, and one of the en-inea (believed to be No. 18) wasiroWD into the river to save it, from. -ing burned. In this year, as in 1741,if negroes were accused of forminglots to burn down the city. In theevious year seven hundred andiirty-two persons had died from yellowver,and the people were still nervous•id excitable after
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the build-ejs below Front Street, from Murray. harf to the Fly Market, over fifty inumber—many of them large andell-stocked stores—were in ashes intout four hours, and one of the en-inea (believed to be No. 18) wasiroWD into the river to save it, from. -ing burned. In this year, as in 1741,if negroes were accused of forminglots to burn down the city. In theevious year seven hundred andiirty-two persons had died from yellowver,and the people were still nervous•id excitable after that dreadfulourge. In the month of December,the Fish Market was torn downr the purpose of arresting a veryestructive fire. The Minerva of De-vinber !>. then editeil by Xoah Web-er, and a few years afterwards byu hariah Lewis, when its name was? Kinged to the Xetr York Commercialdvertiser, thus notices this conflagra->n : M About one oclock this morningMire broke out in one of the stores onarrays Wharf, Coffee House Slip,he number of buildings consumed may• from fifty to seventy—a whole block.
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