The Hillsborough Recorder

Great Fire at Wiener Neustadt, near Vienna.

It would be impossible to give a correct description of the dreadful fire, which has entirely destroyed the town of Wiener Neustadt, about 30 miles from Vienna. Of 500 dwelling houses only 5 remain standing, besides the military academy, the prison, 2 barracks, the sugar refinery, the principal church, and one convent, both of which however, have had the steeples and roofs burnt, and the bells melted. "So terrific was the fire, that the people could not stay in the streets, or give any succour. The fire engines were deserted in the streets and burnt. All the houses were therefore entirely destroyed by the fire, with every thing they contained. There were besides 400 barns, into which the harvest of the surrounding district was just collected, totally destroyed. The Custom House, in which a large quantity of goods was deposited, this town being a place of entrepot, was entirely destroyed, with every thing it contained. Of 10,000 persons the greatest part are reduced to extreme want and poverty, all are without shelter, and are partly encamped in the fields, and part have sought temporary shelter in neighboring villages, many were killed, and a still greater number were wounded, or have lost their sight by the intensity of the fire. The general distress is beyond description."