NEW YORK, May 13.
One of the most destructive fires which ever visited Long
Island, has been raging for the last four days.
Destroying a large amount of property.
The fire broke out near Stoney Brook, on Friday last, as was
caused by the burning off of a lot on the farm of Mr. Joel Smith. It has swept over an area of at least sixty
thousand acres, principally in the town of Brookhaven.
It started the villages of Stone Brook, Setauket, Port
Jefferson, Mount Sinai, and Miller’s Place on the north; New Village, Seeden,
Coram, Middle Island and Maneville in the middle, and Patchogue, Belfast Fire
Place, Mastic, Moriclies and Onaque on the south.
It passed some little distance from the villages of the
north, while in the centre it came so near as to endanger dwellings and human
lives. In the south side, they suffered
more severely than the village of Mastic.
It swept down to Great South bay, where many barks and buildings were
destroyed, and it is said that several lives were lost in attempting to arrest
its progress.
A dispatch from Port Jefferson, May 12th, says the damage is
variously estimated at from three hundred to five hundred thousand dollars.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 14, 1862, p. 1
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