Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — ST. JOHN. [ARTICLE]

ST. JOHN.

Official Report of the Losses, .Etc., Caused by tlie Great Fire. The following official record of the losses caused by the great lire has been made public. Area of city burned, 290 acres ; number of streets destroyed, 23 ; total length of streets destroyed, 10 miles. Of the 23 streets destroyed, 21 were so completely devastated that not a solitary building of any kind remained. POPULATION OF THE BURNT DISTRICT: Queen’d ward 5,483 Luke’s ward 4,678 Sydney ward 2,530 King’s ward , 1,506 Number of persons left homeless 14,197 The above represents 2,780 families. LIST OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED : Dwellings 2,412 Banks 5 Commission houses 93 Wholesale warehouses 40 Hotels, 14 Flour Stores 32 Clothiers 29 Lawyers’ offices 80 Builders’ yards > 27 Lumber yards 12 Tailors’ shops 36 Newspaper offices . 7 Job-printing offices 10 Retail groceries • 102 Dry-goods stores 36 Miccllancous, including thirteen churches and three theaters 86 Total 3,021 LIST OF INSURANCE LOSSES. British companies— North British and Mercantile $.860,000 Queen... 760,000 Royal 515,600 Northern 500,000 Lancashire 500,000 Liverpool, London and Globe 465,060 Guardian 420,000 Commercial Union 415,000 Imperial 400,900 $ 4,715,000 American companies— JEtna $260,000 Hartford 150,000 Piienix of Brooklyn 70,000 Canadian companies— British America $ 30,000 Western 90,000 Royal Canadian 340,000 Canadian Fire and Marine 50,000 Citizens’ 200,000 National 140,000 Shadacona 30o’0t’0 Provincial 100,000 Canada Agricultural 8,000 Central of Frcderickton, N. 8.... 60,000 St. John Mutual 75,000 Total insurance $ 6,588,000 Total loss by the fire 21,275,000 Persons killed, died from injuries, etc 27