A view of the village ruins at the corner of Mechanic and Furnace streets. The stove marks the location of the John Evans estate. The end wall of the Remsen Brown house is in the extreme right.

Only trees are left in this area; buildings were destroyed down to their foundations, not a timber of any kind being left in the structures.

With the roof, the upper walls and the interior destroyed, the stark ruins of the Carthage Baptist church are shown in this picture of an area which was ferociously swept by the flames.

How the section of the village of Carthage at the corner of Main (State) and North Washington streets looked after the fire. The village cemetery, credited with helping stop the destruction, appears in the foreground.

The above descriptions were paraphrased from October 1948 editions of the Watertown Daily Times, which published this series of pictures taken, at the time of the fire, by Ned Leach of Massena NY.