 | 1906 - 136 strani
...hundred to seven hundred stores, which with their contents are valued at $20,000,000 to $40,000,000, are now lying in an indistinguishable mass of ruins....this dreadful conflagration. The fire broke out at 9 o'clock last evening. I was writing in the library when the alarm was given, and went immediately... | |
 | John Foord - 1913 - 368 strani
...at $15,000,000. Philip Hone, who did not then know much about Europe, puts on record his belief that "there is not, perhaps, in the world the same space...property as the scene of this dreadful conflagration." Its limits were as follows: South side of Wall Street from William Street to East River; Exchange Street,... | |
 | Anthony N. Penna - 1999 - 324 strani
...hundred to seven hundred stores, which with their contents are valued at $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 are now lying in an indistinguishable mass of ruins....property as the scene of this dreadful conflagration. In addition, the public response to the new supply of pure and plentiful water was to consume more... | |
 | Gerard T. Koeppel - 2001 - 382 strani
...the assessed value of all property in the city. "There is not perhaps in the world," lamented Hone, "the same space of ground covered by so great an amount...and personal property as the scene of this dreadful conflagration."95 Businesses were wrecked, fortunes were ruined, thousands were put out of work, and... | |
 | Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. Dunbar - 2002 - 1020 strani
...is in ashes; 500 to 700 stores, which with their contents are valued at $20,000,000 to $40,000,000, are now lying in an indistinguishable mass of ruins....fire broke out at nine o'clock last evening. I was waiting in the library when the alarm was given and went immediately down. The night was intensely... | |
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There is not, perhaps, in the world the same space of ground covered by so great an amount of real and personal property as the scene of this dreadful conflagration. 