Particular Account of the Dreadful Fire at Richmond, Virginia, December 26, 1811 Which Destroyed the Theatre and the House Adjoining, and in Which More Than Sixty Persons Were Either Burnt to Death, or Destroyed in Attempting to Make Their Escape

Excerpt from Particular Account of the Dreadful Fire at Richmond, Virginia, December 26, 1811: Which Destroyed the Theatre and the House Adjoining, and in Which More Than Sixty Persons Were Either Burnt to Death, or Destroyed in Attempting to Make Their Escape

How can we describe the scene! No pen can paint it; no imagination can conceive it. A whole Theatre wrapt in ?ames - a gay and animated assembly suddenly thrown on the very verge of the grave - many of them, oh! How many! Precipitated in a moment into eternity youth, and beauty, and old age, and genius overwhelmed in one promiscuous ruin - shrieks', groans, and human agony in every shape - this is the heart rending scene that we are called upon to describe. We sink under the effort. Reader excuse our feelings, for they are the feelings of a whole city.

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