History of Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Atlantic City, a village of Atlantic co., New Jersey, the S. E. terminus of the new railroad connecting Camden with Absecom Beach. It contains as yet only 5 or 6 houses.

...At Atlantic City water pitchers were overturned in the hotels, and in several instances furniture was thrown down and globes shaken form chandeliers. Dishes were rattled on tables, and much consternation was occasioned in a few of the hotels where the guests were assembled at their meals...

Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 17. - The business portion of Atlantic City narrowly escaped destruction by fire at an early hour today. The fire destroyed $75,000 worth of property. One life is supposed to have been lost. The fire started before daylight in the wooden Grand Opera House. All the fire engines in the city worked in vain to keep the flames from spreading from the playhouse.

Hundreds of volunteer firemen helped the uniformed force in a fight to save the City Hall from destruction, but the big building burned like a tinder box when once it caught from flying sparks, and the various officials were compelled to flee quickly. The records were lost.
The fire next caught the train sheds of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and 145 feet of the sheds were destroyed. The entire city was illuminated by the flames, and hundreds of guests from the hotels and cottages turned out to see the spectacle.

At one time the jail was threatened, and the prisoners, eight in number, were removed to a ...

Atlantic City, a pleasure- and health-resort of Atlantic co., N.J., 60 miles S.E. of Philadelphia, and on the Atlantic Ocean, is on a narrow sandy island called Absecon Beach, extending from Great Egg Harbor Inlet on the S.W. to Absecon Inlet on the N.E. It is the S.E terminus of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad, the West Jersey Railroad, and the Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railroad. The island is 10 miles long, 3 of a mile wide, and 4 to 5 miles from the mainland. Here is a good beach for bathing; also a first-order light-house, called Absecon Light, near the N. point of the island. Atlantic City was incorporated in 1854. It has 15 churches, 2 daily and 5 weekly newspaper offices, about 2000 cottages and residences, and some 400 boarding-houses and hotels. Atlantic Avenue, the principal business street, is 100 feet wide, and is crossed at right angles by many other avenues, bearing the names of the states of the Union. There are also avenues named Arctic and Pacific, extending...

Only One of the Injured in Danger of Death-A Rotten Wooden Pillar the Cause of the Catastrophe-Some Curious Incidents-The Collapse as Seen by an Eye Witness-Great Weight of the Crowd-List of the Injured-Some Baltimoreans Slightly Hurt-A Lucky Tally-Ho Party.

Atlantic City, July 11. - The gayety and bustle characteristic of this resort has given way to a degree to a feeling of depression, in consequence of last night’s disaster at Baltic Avenue Casino. It is largely tempered, however, by a devout thankfulness that the catastrophe was no worse, and, indeed, it is considered almost miraculous that hundreds were not killed outright. At the Pacific Avenue Sanitarium, where the most seriously injured are being cared for, it was reported this evening that only one of those patients was in any immediate danger of death. This is Frederick Claproth, the coronetist of Jenning’s Band of Camden. He has been several times reported dead, but is still hovering between life and death, to the wonder ...

Crowd Cut Off by Flames on Pier Rescued by Boats
Firemen and Engines Sent from Philadelphia and Camden — Troops and Police Guard Burned Area — Many Looters Arrested
Special to The New York Times.

ATLANTIC CITY, April 3 — Fire of unknown origin destroyed property estimated at more than $1,000,000 here to-day in the most valuable section of the city. The track of the fire burned all of that portion
from the boardwalk between Illinois Avenue and South Carolina Avenue, extending back toward Pacific Avenue 250 feet.

In addition Young's Pier, at the foot of Tennessee Avenue, was damaged and a large part of it will have to be rebuilt. It was the most destructive fire the city has ever known, and it was only due to the arrival companies were totally unable to cope with the demands upon them.

The fire was under control before 3 o'clock this afternoon, and to-night the ruined district is being patrolled by Company L of the Third Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey, and the Morris ...