Identifier: historyofgreatfi01conw (find matches)
Title: History of the great fire in Saint John, June 20 and 21, 1877
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843-1925
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Publisher: Boston, B. B. Russell Saint John, N. B., Jones & Morrison
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dullest mind. Tbe red clouds banging above,tbe columns and sboots of flame below, tbe wide-spread glow of tbe still bright embers, tbe strangeoutline of the Germain-street Church in its pic-turesque ruins against the illumined smoke beyond ;tbe Gothic arches of the Orphan Asylum, resplendentin living red; tbe infinite variety of shape and colortbe ruins had everywhere assumed; the shiftingbanks of smoke, tbe delicate blushes of tbe water oneither band; tbe intermingling of blue, carnation,crimson, yellow, and white, with kaleidoscopicchanges in ruin, cloud, and sea, made an impressionwhich tbe beholder can never efface. It was notlost upon Mr. Tournay. A whole city in embers!Such a bonfire may tbe world never see again!Those streets be knew so well were undistinguisbablefrom the foundations of dwellings. All alike seemedburning. Those bouses, those churches, those trees,those warehouses, those banks, which bad grown sofamiliar to him, were reduced to dust and crumblingheaps of coals.
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INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE. 59 How was it with himself, — he that was so happy,so rich, so successful, so loved, so respected, in themorning ? How is it now with him ? Can it bethat so soon he is wifeless, childless, penniless ? Amourner and a beggar! Yet he was but one ofmany. Sad hours are often seen by all mankind;but where are there any sadder than those of thatlong night to the homeless, stricken people of SaintJohn ? CHAPTER V. IN THE VICINITY OF KINGS SQUAEE. The Stationary Vehicle.—The Merchandise in Kings Square.—Appearance of the Refugees. —The Old Burying-Ground, — TheShelterless Ones. —Removal to New Homes. XT was late in the night when Mr. Tournay suc--*- ceeded in fighting his way against heat, water,and human crowds, back to the foot of OrangeStreet on the shore of Courtney Bay; but the firewas not even there wholly overcome. Here andthere houses caught and blazed most furiously, whichhad been up to that hour successfully defended. Butthe few buildings which were

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