DISASTROUS FIRE AT JEDDO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1789, 30 April 1874, Page 2

DISASTROUS FIRE AT JEDDO.

[from the correspondent ok the new 1 ■' YORK HERALD.] ljJ<> Another of ihose terrible conflagrations with which Jeddo is doomed^' 'it may be said, to be periodically Visited, occurred in that city on the 9th instant. It commenced,vajbout; one a.m.,— and raged during nine hours' ! Aittfoughiome previous fires, notably ( the one that'occurred in April of last yearyhave destroyed more'houdei and. extendedover:'a r larger space, this last is, probably, the most severe?i 'fire; that :has , visited Jeddq for c, great,number- K pf , years. . it devastated a tract of about two miles in length l>y one mile in width, .destroying Abyer .3000 houses. The' ! section/of < the: 1 city where the firei occurred was occupied^ inainly by merchants of r the better cjass, large silk emporiums^ wholesale 1 druggists, bariiliers, &o, is estin&teddat ovep 2,000,000dol. ; an immense loss ; for a comparatively poor city. ■ ! Some '35 persons lost their lives during the disaster, and 23 were seriously hurt. -r . ) The Japanese, in attempting to stop a conflagration expend more courage and energy than I haye.jseen displayed anywhere else, but 'thesef -qualities are misdirected, arid hence arjb ineffective for good.. They have ; ii6 w i?opd engines or ho3e to carry the water. They will never destroy a house until it be actually ? on fire, ' and then you can see them working in the very r midst of smoke and fi ame, endeavoring to save property of comparatively little value. " ;< '•'' I'-i:]>";1 '- i: ]>"; One consideration ifl' that this'firt) r will not entail the suffering andn privation which the orio of the previous year did; for that fire attacked the very i poorest portion of the -city/ and consequently many; thousands of personsrwereJeftfora long timg homeless and penniless, (A course it will be 4ftr<f, upon the present sufferers ; but they/ at least, are in a con. dition far above want, -r The r ruined district is to be rebuilt in a manner similar to that part of the main-street which was destroyed ! last year.' Brick arid, stone buildings are to be erected by the Government, who will sell them on reasoiiable terms to the merchants. ; ! Thus, these terrible disasters '" will have' at 1 leiast one good effetf . Jeddo will ultimately be a " city built in a substantial.style, and then fires will occur 16,33 frequently, and they will be more easily confined within narrow limits. Since the 9th inst. no less than ■ix fir§s have occurred, but none ofithem did any yeiy great damage^ •'"'*'