Danbury Times

Fire and Loss of Life. A destructive fire occurred in Market-street, Philadelphia, on Saturday morning last, which occasioned $100,000 damage. After enumerating the list of sufferers, the Gazette of that city adds:

'The saddest part and most melancholy of the story remains yet to be told. At half past 2 o'clock the walls of the rear building of Wright's store, in which the fire caught, fell with a tremendous crash. Two persons, both young men, one a member of the Diligent Engine company, named Mark S. Rink, and the other a member of the Pennsylvania Engine company, named Oscar Douglass, were buried beneath the ruins, and were instantly killed. Another fireman named David Orrick, Secretary of the Delaware Engine, was also buried under the falling wall, and taken out so badly hurt, that it is thought he will not survive. One of his legs were fractured in addition to his other injuries. A young man named Boley narrowly escaped with his life, and a member of the Southwark Engine had his cape dragged off his shoulders by a portion of the wall, as it came down. The bodies of Rink and Douglass each presented a dreadful and frightful spectacle, when removed from under the rubbish. They were horribly mangled and blackened, and their backs literally flayed. Both of the deceased were highly esteemed, and have each left many friends to mourn their untimely fate.'