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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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ames R. Ruel andRobert Light: by C. & E. Everett, hatters. Mrs.Charles C. McDonald (three) : by Adams & Sann-ders, boots and shoes; L. L. Sharpe, watchmaker;W. Waterbury, hardware ; James McConnell, bootsand shoes. Joseph W. Hall (two) : by H. Kirkpat-rick. W. H. Scovil: by P. Sharkey & Son, cloth-ing. Robert T. Clinch and heirs E. Barlow: byelectric telegraph of&ce. On Union Street. — Brown estate, Peter and JohnCampbell, Daniel Donovan, Mrs. Lantalum (two),J. W. Hall (two), John Gallivan, John McSweeney(three), heirs D. McLaughlin, Charles Lawton, Sen-ator Dover, J. Fred. Lawton, L. Burns, J. Hegan, JohnLloyd, Hare heirs, Mrs. John Bryden, John Higgins,W. Wilson, A. Yeats & Sons (three), J. and T. Rob-inson (two). In the foregoing list, the reader will observe thegreat number of dwellings owned by single indi-viduals ; and when he recalls the fact, that, in sevencases out of ten, their homes were all they couldclaim as their own, he will begin to comprehend how
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EXTENT OF THE CALAMITY. 213 great was the loss to the worldng classes of SaintJohn. The whole area over which the fire extended isstated by the best authority at 290 acres, of which83 acres were in Queens, 73 in Dukes, 95 in Syd-ney, and 39 in Kings Wards. This estimate cannotbe more than ten acres from the truth one way orthe other, and may be accepted as being as nearlycorrect as can be given without an actual re-surveyof the ground. The number of streets and squaresover which the fire extended, and which were totallyor partially destroyed by it, was 39, — Britain, Car-marthen, Church, Drury Lane, Georges, Harding,King Square, Leinster, Market Square, Mill, North,Pagan Place, Princess, Queen Square, RobertsonPlace, Smyth, St. Andrews, Ward, Wentworth, Canterbury, Charlotte, Dock, Duke, Germain, Horsfield,King, Main, Mecklenburg, Nelson, Orange, Pitt,Prince William, Queen Street, ShefSeld, Sydney, St.James, Water, North Wharf, South Wharf. Twenty-one streets were utterly destroyed,

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