New York Daily Tribune

Fire In Greenwich-st.

A fire broke out yesterday, about 2 P. M. in or near a carpenter's shop in the block north-east of Hammersley and Greenwich sts. Some say the carpenter's shavings took fire--others, that two women who love whisky, set the stove-pipe in a blaze with shavings. About ten houses, all of them of wood and as dry as tinder, were speedily in flames and could not be saved. When our reporter reached the ground he was told by the City officers that, by the fall of some timbers, &c. a man and boy had been smothered. They were, however. got out by the firemen. who did their duty manfully, distributing the Croton with great coolness and effect, and thereby saving the neighboring houses. The boy was injured but not much--the old man, when dug out, walked home supported by two of his acquaintances, Tho furniture of some 30 or 40 families, chiefly Irish, and evidently not of the richest sort lay scattered about the opposite pavements, much of it wet. damaged and broken. A little girl in charge of cradles, pillows, crockery, &c. was bestowing her especial attention upon the safety ai a row of beautiful flower pots which had doubtless been, one short hour before, the pride of her mother's parlor window: some seemed almost frantic with grief at their lots: A certain squad had only moved into one of tho houses on Hammersley-st. the day before. About 15 houses were more or less destroyed, including three or four of brick drenched with water and much broken up, At the corner was Stickey's grocery, said to be insured, His pigs escaped. Among the sufferers are Griffith, a carpenter Keenan, tailor-Bernard Furman, blacksmith- Nicholas Hughes, grocer-James Cavanagh, tavern (not quite burnt out]-David Smith, grocer, 59 1/2 [do ]-John Metey, junk store-Peter McDonell-John Walsh-M. O'Neal On Greenwich-st from 53 to 59 1/2 tho greater number are burnt, and the rest much injured. About 30 poor families were rendered houseless, The buildings , very mostly owned by Clarkson Crolius, Esq It was rumored that two children of a laboring woman who. having no one to leave them with, had locked them up in her absence, perished in the flames, but of this we have no certain information.