The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-11-16
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
BOSTON, NOV. 1(

ndt-SLOf6 Oh MT. w. Drown, on the SCUM
side ofCourt street. In about two hours
and half, the fire was subdued, after
having destroyed the row of brick build
ings on the south side of the street from
the Old Court House TO the building on
the corner OF Court street and CoInhiIl,
three brick and stone buildings on the
south side Of the street from the old
Courthouse to the building on the cor
ner of Court-street and Cornhill, three
brick and stone buildings on the north
side of Court street, the house back of
Cornhill square formerly owned by P.
Gayetty, and a number of smaller build
ings in the rear of those enumerated.
The following is, as nearly as we can
now ascertain, correct list of the ten
ants, with their occupations, of the
buildings burned and injured.
On the south side of Court street, Tu-
doris buildings ESQ called) occupied by
Mr.. Bacon, apofhecary Messrs. ii. Full
err, Morey, and Dunlap, attorneys, and
Amin and Smith, engravers. The
range of brick buildings, almost new.
owned by Hon. Peter C. Brooks, occu-
pied by G. Wheelwright, umbrella-niak-
err Daniel Messenger, halter, W. Brown,
halter, A. Ellison tailor, and the Offices
of P. c. Brooks, H. G. Otis, jr. W.T..
Otis, J. Il. Winthrop, L. Shaw, S.
Bartlett, S. d. Wood, Sherman Leland.
A. w. Paine, Augustus Peabody. Jam les
Savage, P. Blair, George Blake, US.
district attorney, 7. Wetmore, William
T. Andrews. The adjoining brick bull h,
ing owned also by Mr.. Brooks, and de-
cupied by 0. c. Greenleaf, bookseller.
J. t. Austin, county attorney, and Fam
ham & Phelps, printers. The next
building, making the corner of CornhiA,
was preserved with much difficulty, and
not without considerable injury.
On the north side of Court-street the
elegant edifice belonging TO J. Heard, il.
Register of Probate, occupied by him.
self, c. P. Curtis, J. Quincy, jr. Will
liam P. Mason, attorneys, and Wells 8
Lilly, Booksellers. The next building,
belonging 10 the estate of the late Judge
Dawes, occupied by Mrs. Preston, mil
liner, and the upper part as a dwelling
house. The next owned by Mr.. Brooks,
occupied by Elias Payne, shoe store,
J. R. Adam, attorney, and J. Hastings,
manufacturer of printing ink.
On the alley leading south by the old
Courthouse, all the buildings occupied
by ]. Farrie, A. Moore, S. K. Williams,
aud z. G. Whitman, attorneys, and
Luke Baldwin, deputy-sheriff.
The house formerly belonging to Mr..
Gayetty, occupied as a confectionery,
with some small tenemeuts adjoining,
whose occupants names we have not
learned.
The block of buildings, extending
from Cornhill square to Court-street,
was preserved with great difficulty, but
much injured in the rear.
We. have not ascertained the proba-
BILE total amount of losses. Mr.. Brooks's
buildings were not insured. Mr.. Heard's
we understand was insured at the Mutu-
al Office.
Among the sufferers, the loss of Wells
& Lilly is probably the most severe.
We understand that no part Of their
stock was insured, and that the whole
is destroyed. Value estimated at $4,000
dollars.
Many valuable law libraries are utter
ly consumed; that of Mr.. Otis, said TO
be worth $4,000; of G. Sullivan, in the
office of Mr.. Winthrop, whose loss in
books and papers is said to be $500.
Mr.. Blake, district attorney, has lost
every thing that was in his office, worth
OF 6 thousand dollars. Mr.. Peabody
is also great sufferer. Mr., Hastings
states his loss at 2 or 5000 dollars.
Fares IN Wew-Brunswick.- contin-
ne to receive additional particulars of
the losses and suferngs Of the people
of New-Brunswick, by the unexampled
fires which have lately desolated whole
townships in that province and, what
is uncommon, the first information of
the calamity was not exaggerated, ex-
cept 10 the destruction of human life
Still it appears that over 100 persons
persisted. The fire was augmented in
its dreadful progress by the hurricane,
and many, having no other means of es-
cape. plunged into the water Of the riv-
ers. 1t is stated, that the destruction Of
property in houses, timber, merchan-
die, lands. and vessels, exceed the pow
er of calculation, and that the extent of
the territory laid waste was over 100
miles. In this vast tract nothing was
left but misery, want and desolation.
This great calamity, we are glad 10
find, has awakened universal sympathy.
The authorities in all the British PROV
inces we're prompt in the adoption of
measures TO alleviate the most immedi-
ate distresses Tho II Goyaroor &c