Phenix Gazette

A Word from the West.

New York, August 6.

Another Fire.—Before the ink used in recording one fire is dry, we are obliged to announce another.—About 9 o'clock last evening, a large old wooden building occupied as a carpenter's shop, in the block between Pine street and Maiden-lane, near Pearl-street, was discovered to be on fire. A number of old crazy buildings in the neighborhood were also soon in a blaze, and from the mass of combustible materials collected at this point, the town was for a time threatened with an extensive conflagration, and before the engines could be brought to bear, the rear of the fire-proof stores on Pine-street took fire. That occupied by Messrs. Snelling & Baxter, No. 70, was the most injured, the upper lofts and roofs being principally burnt, and all the goods destroyed, or greatly damaged. The adjoining store, No. 71, occupied by Messrs. P. W. Engs, Asaph Stone, and J. A. Charters, were partly destroyed, with its contents—the amount of goods is said to be large. The store No. 63 Pine, occupied by Messrs. Stone & Otis, although in imminent danger for a short time, was but slightly damaged, but the contents were much injured by water. The store No. 74 Pine-street, occupied by Messrs. F. & H. Sheldon & Co. and Ailey & Trimble, although surrounded with flames, was, we believe, saved from injury. The adjoining stores of Messrs. Burns and Halliburton, and E. Riggs, also escaped injury. The buildings where the fire commenced, were all situated on the new street now opening from William to Pearl-streets, and ought to have been removed some time since.