The Fourth District of New Orleans, Louisiana had been hit with a large fire ten days before a new conflagration burned more than fifty houses and left more than 500 homeless. The fire began in the mid-afternoon in a stables business on Washington Street in the Fourth District and by midnight more than seven blocks had been destroyed. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, November 4, 1859, p. 1.