The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-02
THE DAILY DISPATCH.

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THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Saturday aora,as, August y, 1898.
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Great Fire In Boston..Lens Of Lite.
We briefly announced yesterday the fact Of q
great FIRE having occurred In snoston, on Tues
day afternoon. The papers received from sha,
city on Wednesday give the particulars of the ca
lamify, from which we make the following ex.
About three o'clock yesterday afternoon m
alarm was cansed by fire breaking out In "Jeffer.
son Block, 3ls to 326 North street, inclusive,
owned by Cornelius Doherty, and occupied by him
aud others on the lower floor an grocery and clio.
thing stores, and in the upper stories BY families
and boarding houses. 60
The IRE caught from some unexplained cause
during the absence of Mr., Doherty, in the rear
part OF NO 3s6, and the fsmes spreading with un.
usual rapidity. almost Immediately communicate
with block ofthree story wooden houses In the
rear also owned by Dir. Doherty, and occupied by
about fifty Irish families. This block comprised
four buildings on Everett alley, (formerly known
as Tin Pot alley) and WAS l24 feet in length The
block was nearly destroyed, and the greatest con.
sfernaton prevailed among the numerous tenants.
Notwithsfandng the exertions of the fire depart.
ment the flames continued to spread and in an in
credible short space of time all the houses in the
vicinity were on fire.
Mr.. Charles A Warren a member of franklin
Hook aud Ladder Company No. 3, while at his
post in Everett alley, was struck by - falling
chimney and prostrsted under a mass of brick 4
and rubbish. He was taken out in an insensble
state few moments after the occurrence and im.
mediateiy conveyed to the apothecary store of Dr.
warren Ludwig corner of North and Fleet sts
where every attention was paid him by Dr. l. 4,
assisted oy DR.. Buck, but their efforts to restore
him to consciousness were unav aling, aud he ex.
pred in few minutes after reaching the store -
HIS brother George, also q member of the same
company, who was severely injured at fire in
hoxoury q few weeks since, entered the store just
as his brother was breathing his last and instantly
sank senseless to the fl ,or. He was soon restored
to consciousness but the was eflectng in the
extreme.
Mrs Mary Collins, in her fright leaped from a
third story window, and was instantly killed
The bodies of six others were recovered from
the ruins and taken to the 1st Station House -
Ihree OF the number have been identified as the
bodies Of Ellen Kalen, 45 years of age Mary Ka-
len, aged q years, and Catherine Kalen, Is yeaI
OF age-mother and two daughters. The others
were so badly disfgured and eharred by burns that
at the present time of writing they have not been
identified =.
woman named Margaret. Donovan was last
ing to her and it is supposed that they all perished
in the flames
James Wright, wife and child, are reported as
missing, and are also supposed to have perished
Hugh Traverse, sonin-law of Mrs Collins, while
enoeayoring to save some of her effects, let with
a fall by which one of his legs and two or three
of his ribs were broken 1.-.
Mrs. Margaret Sweeney leaped from the roof Of
Jefferson Block, fracturDg one of her legs and
one Of her elbows.
Numbers of the citizens as well as many fire.
men, did their utmost to preserve life and limb -
MIR Thomas A.. Sullivan. book-keeper for John
Taylor & Sons, observed Mrs. Collins in the act of
leaping from window, when he called to her TO
mn dr,nf 80 xk~k
| ladder would soon be there; but she needed him
not, and took the fatal leap. Mr.. Sullivan contin-
ued his efforts and climbing up on the awning
rails. succeeded in reScuing woman AID two chill.
dren, who were in imminent peril
AT half past 3 O'Clock, half an hour after the
hre alarm was first given. the alarm was sounded
for the steam fire engine to hasten to the scene,
but was not until after five o'clock that she
rived and was stationed on Union wharf This
delay, we are assured, was solely owing to the
want OF horses, none being provided by the Com
mittee on the Fire Department, to draw the ma
chine to fires, notwithstanding the engineers have
urged the necessity of having horses in constant
readiness In seven minutes after the "Mes
Greenwood reached the wharf, she was at work.
playing away" greatly to the relief of the fire.
men, who had borne the heat of the day.
Some of the scenes and incidents of the catas-
trophe of yesterday were of the most painful cha.
racter. In almost every case the remains of the
victims, as they were taken one by one from the
ruins, were SO effectually charred blackened and
disfgured TO lose almost all semblance of hu.
manity and to defy the agonizing scrutiny of rela.
tives and friends who were in search for their mis-
sing ones. The piercing shreks of mothers for
their lost children were indeed heart.rending
and all human efforts to pacify them were of no
avail.
Among the charred remains at the Station
House, were those of q woman clasping an infant
In her arms. Ab, what embrace was that
which relaxed not during all the fearful anguish
of that dreadful death by suffocation and burning
At the latest accounts the number of lives known
to have been lost was nine wounded four, and
missing seven. -.,. ~.. 60.
The fire was the most destructive to human life
of any which has occurred in Boston since the
great fire in Broad street many years ago.
The loss of property is estimated at &75, ,0O0
TERRIBLE CoLIIERY EXPLOSION In ENGLAND.
The explosion i'll the coliieries of Me.srs In
sole & Co, at Cymmer, Ia miles above Cardiff, has
produced consequences hitherto unparalleled in the
melancholy history of colliery accidents in South
Wales n->
1t appears that On Tuesday morning ll6 or ll7
men and boys went down into the CymnIer pit
little anticipating the horrible catastrophe about
| TO occur. The two fremen whose duty IL was to
examine the pit, ascertain If there as any foul
air or gas in IL, ascended at about o'clock pro-
| i"aneing the pit safe In less than hour after
Indeed before some had stripped off their clothes
to commence work-the terrible gas exploded and
| few moments. Then one fell in the dark, and 9TH
| ers staggering sleng stumbled on their dead com
panions and fell dead also Here some were strug.
| Cling amid the tortures of the fire; there a tram
full of boys, all dead; and in other places, in sid.
liDgs or inches in the level men had sat down to
await their fearful DOOM and had died with IN
elbows resting on their knees and their faces bu.
ried in their hands. Some had struggled forward.
DO doubt hoping to reach the airways and possibly
| escape t,--
| The screams of the wives and mothers at the
mouth of the pit-those women cougregated there
| to await and recognize the dead-as during the
|. long interval that ensued between the period
when the first intelligence of the explosion spread
on Tuesday morning till the last body was brought
ont on the morning of Wednesday, were fright.
| full and distressing All day long the brave fel-
lows who ventured down, almost in the face Of
death, bring up the dead, sent up the bodies OF
| the unfortunate men and boys who had perished,
and when these were brought to the surface the
| recognition of beloved husband or darling child
awoke narrowing cries. On wednesday morn
left to conjecture whether any still lay IN the pit