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 Stonybrook, on Friday last, and was caused by the burning of a lot on the farm of Mr. Joel. L. G. Smith. It has swept over an area of at least 60,000 square acres, principally in the town of Brook Haven.
It started the villagers [sic] of Stonybrook, Setauket, Port Jefferson, Mt. Senia and Miller’s Place on the North. Law Village, Neden, Middle Island and Monroeville in the middle, and Patchague, Belost, Free Place, Mastic, Mooriches and Onoyne, on the south.
It passed some little distance from the villages of the North, while in the center it came so near as to endanger dwellings and human lives. On the south side they suffered more severely at the village of Matic [sic]. It swept down to the great south Bay, where many barns and outbuildings were destroyed, and it is said several lives were lost in attempting to arrest its progress.
A Dispatch from Point Jefferson, May 12 says the damages is variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
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