The New Hampshire Gazette

BOSTON, JAN. 17:

It is with peculiar regret we record, that about half past one o'clock, yesterday morning, the new and elegant building of the Columbian Museum, owned by Messrs. Bowen and Doyle, was discovered to be on fire, and which, with a part of the valuable Collection, was soon destroyed. The fire is supposed to have taken, by some accident, in the story in which Mr. Martin, exhibited his experiments and Phantasmagoria, as advertised in the papers. Some time before the flames were seen, a loud report was heard, supposed to be the explosion of some chemical preparation, and which was the cause of the disaster. It is remarkable, that Thursday was the anniversary of the destruction of the Museum by fire in 1803.

After the fire had subsided, a very melancholy catastrophe occurred.--A great part of the south wall of the Museum fell into the Chapel burying ground, and killed six young men; and wounded several others. Those killed, are William, son of Capt. Michael Homer, aged 11, a promising youth.--John, son of Mr. Philip Conden, aged 14 --Henry Fullerton, aged 20, an apprentice of Mr. Richard Thayer, housewright.--Isaac Peabody, of Shirley, an apprentice of Mr. John Lenan, blacksmith, aged 15 --John M. Urann, an apprentice of Mr. Aves, cooper, aged 17 :-And James D. Beals, an apprentice of Mr. Jennings, wheelwright aged 13. We do not understand that any of the wounds are mortal.