The Newport Gazette

We have accounts from Overyssel, that on the 4th of this month a house in the village of Gramibergh, in that Province, took fire and the wind blowing very high down the village, at the upper end of which this house stood, the flames made such a rapid progress, that in four hours the whole village was consumed, and what at once increased the fire, and added to the sufferings of the poor villagers is, that the houses were filled with unthreshed corn, hay, and fuel, for the subsistence of themselves and cattle during the winter; and what prevented the progress of the fire from being easily stopped was, the men were all employed in the fields at their business as farmers and labouring men. This dreadful event has reduced the unfortunate sufferers to the greatest misery, by the loss of their houses,