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Foreign News
January 13, 1825
Martinsburgh Gazette
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia
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Destructive fires ravaged Edinburgh on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the previous week, desolating the city and rendering at least 250 families homeless, as reported from Liverpool on November 24.
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Liverpool, November 24.
Dreadful Fires in Edinburg.—On Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday week, Edinburg was desolated by the ravages of destructive fires which broke out successively on those days. The following paragraph from an Edinburg paper, will give some idea of the extent of the calamity which has befallen the northern capital.
"The extent of the desolation, now that the crisis is past, and that we have leisure to survey the scene of ruin, appears more frightful even than we could have imagined.
"It is difficult to estimate the number of families that have been rendered houseless by the present calamity. But when we consider the height of some of the buildings, and the density of the population in this quarter, six or seven families being sometimes crowded together into one floor, the number cannot fall short of 250: indeed we have little doubt, that, if an accurate calculation could be made they would be found to exceed that number. Such a scene of calamity as this is seldom paralleled in the annals of domestic life."
Dreadful Fires in Edinburg.—On Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday week, Edinburg was desolated by the ravages of destructive fires which broke out successively on those days. The following paragraph from an Edinburg paper, will give some idea of the extent of the calamity which has befallen the northern capital.
"The extent of the desolation, now that the crisis is past, and that we have leisure to survey the scene of ruin, appears more frightful even than we could have imagined.
"It is difficult to estimate the number of families that have been rendered houseless by the present calamity. But when we consider the height of some of the buildings, and the density of the population in this quarter, six or seven families being sometimes crowded together into one floor, the number cannot fall short of 250: indeed we have little doubt, that, if an accurate calculation could be made they would be found to exceed that number. Such a scene of calamity as this is seldom paralleled in the annals of domestic life."
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
What keywords are associated?
Edinburg Fires
Destructive Fires
Houseless Families
Northern Capital Calamity
Where did it happen?
Edinburg
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Edinburg
Event Date
On Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday Week
Outcome
over 250 families rendered houseless
Event Details
Destructive fires broke out successively on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the previous week, desolating the city. The extent of the ruin was frightful, with dense population in high buildings leading to many families left homeless.