People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — GREAT FIRE IN LONDON. [ARTICLE]

GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.

Conflagration in the Very Heart of the City—Thirty Buildings and Warehouse* Destroyed with a Loss of £1,500,0U0. London, July 19.—Monday night’s warehouse fire in the .district bounded by Leadenhall streets and Bevis Marks and Cammolie streets burned over an area of over 1,500 yards before the flames were extinguished. Thirty buildings were entirely destroyed. These buildings were occupied by more than twenty-five firms, who dealt in stationery,' .clothing, tea, wines, furniture, imported goods, etc. The porters and their families living on the premises had narrow escapes. Many of them rushed to the street in their night dresses. It is expected that the loss will reach £1,500,000. The burned district is but a short distance to the eastward of the Bank of England, the Royal exchange and the Mansion house, the residence of the lord mayor.