The Connecticut Observer, And New York Congregationalist

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.

On the night of the 13th March, a fire broke out in the store of Messrs. David Felt & Co. stationers, New Orleans. Before any assistance could be rendered, the fire had invaded the whole building and communicated to the adjacent houses with such rapidity, that in less than two hours the whole range of four story buildings, from the store of Messrs. Toole & Barriere to the corner of Customhouse street, presented a complete mass of ruins. The New Orleans Courier estimates the loss at a sum exceeding $200,000, and adds

The buildings and the goods were all insured. Some of the goods were saved, and the stores may be rebuilt on good terms; the prices of work and materials being low. The owners, then, can lose nothing if the insurance companies have the ability to meet their engagements. This, however, is considered doubtful, by some.

Among the sufferers the following are named in the Bee, Courier and Bulletin:

David Felt & Co., stationers, 24 Chartres st. destroyed—insured, $24,000.

Chittenden, dry goods store, No. 26, destroyed.

J. Tulane, clothing store, No. 28, do.

Smith & Cantzon, saddlers, 30 cor. Chartres and Customhouse streets, destroyed.

No. 22 was a dry goods store, kept by Messrs. Armstead & Spring.

These five stores were in one four story block, the property of Mr. John Hagan.

The tumbling down of the walls is said to have injured several persons. A one story house adjacent to No. 22, had the roof crushed, and the goods in two stores, No. 18 and 20, were much damaged.

Several persons were wounded or burned during this deplorable conflagration, of several of whom we could not procure the names. Those we have been able to ascertain are Messrs. Henry McCauley, carried away insensible; Geo. Bedford, slightly hurt, and two others, names unknown, hurt.

N. Y. Spectator.