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At about 2:30 o'clock this morning fire was discovered in the large sugar refinery of OCKERSHAUSEN BROTHERS, in Rose-street. Volumes of smoke issued from the building for some time before the precise position of the fire could be ascertained. At length the flames burst forth with great fury, and filled the air with showers of sparks and burning plank. The firemen were promptly on the ground, but their efforts were as nothing against the fierce flames, and the entire building was steadily licked up, story by story, and compartment by compartment. At 3 o'clock the fire in the refinery was at its height, with strong indication of extending to the buildings in the rear of Vandewater-street. The exertions of the firemen were now wholly directed to saving the shops, printing office and tenement houses surrounding. The men were in imminent danger of burial under the walls at any moment. The inhabitants of the tenement houses in Vandewater-street were aroused by the strong glare that shone through their apartments, and at once fled to the streets in every stage of undress, and carrying their helpless children in their, arms. After their first alarm they turned their attention to the saving of their worldly goods, and bedding, furniture, stoves, trunks, and every form of receptacle for wearing apparel soon littered the streets. The night was cold, and these unfortunate people must have suffered severely. The loss by the destruction of the sugar refinery will probably reach $500,000, as it was said, there was a large stock of sugars in the building. Of course, nothing could be learned during the fire of the amount of the insurance.

This is a detail from the map accompanying the Report of the Council of Hygiene. It did not appear in the Times article