Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-11-14

ture in the city, has been burned.
Stewards rooms only fed the flames
Pieces of dry goods went whistling across
the square, firing stores on Devonshlre
street. Every building was heated to
the verge of spontaneous combustion and
caught like tinder. Deafening explo-
sions are constantly heard.
The tenement houses on the upper end
of Federal street have now caught.
Crazed women rush to and fro, with
clocks and bedding in their arms.
The wool houses in Federal street
caught next. They were crammed from
cellar to sarret. The epaper houses came
next. The Freeman's National Bank
went next.
The fire has reached dimensions that
simply defy description. The people.of
Boston find themselves in danger OF their
lives. The loss of houses and property
Is now scarcely thought of. The peo-
pie are retiring before the flames toward
fremont and Court streets, where the
fire, it is supposed, will be unable to
reach, but a gale is blowing, and it
to have no positive direction. 1t isprsb-
able that Faneuil Hall and Quincy Mar
ket will go. The Western Union Tele-
graph office was abandoned at half-past
eight.
.BosToN, November 10, l1:$6 a. M
The fire is still raging with unabated
fury.
Special dispatches say that State street
and the Parker House have been saved
Chief Fire Engineer Damrclls was killed
by falling walls.
Five miles Of street have. been burned.
WASHINGTON, November 10, 1890 p.
MA private dispatch from Boston says
that the fire has broken out afresh, and
has crossed State street, and that the
whole city is threatened. This dispatch
is dat u $50.
BosroN, November 10, 1:SO p. nj
is now confidently believed that the fire
is under control. The losses, ifno more
buildings are burned, will not fall short
of S2O0,OOO,OO0
The burned district is bounded by
Summer, Federal, Broad, Central, Wa
ter. Washington and Bedford streets.
BosToS, November 10, 2:20 p m.-The
confederation was checked at one o'clock,
after fifteen hours havoc, having des-
troyed hundreds Of the costlie>t build
ings in the country, and having Temporal
rily paralyzed the shoe, leather, wool
and dry goods trades. Not one whole
sale shoe and leather establishment has
been left. The wool houses suffered III
like manner, and dry goods jobbine
houses are few and fur between. The
Ninth Regiment, with detaclments from
sst-
property.
The fire reaches Water street on one
side and Lincoln street OH the other, but
is believed to be u,dcr control. The
following streets are completely destroy
ed: Kilby, Liberty Square, Central,
Water, Lindcll, Congress, High, Devon
shire, Franklin, Milk, Summer, Federal,
Pearl and part OF Bedford. A large num-
Der OF families are homeless. 1t is in
deed heartrendlng.
o:3l, p. m.--The FIRE is checked, State
| street is saved. Broad street is saved.
| All north anl east of State street is saved.
The POST office is damaged and the backs
of some ie,.. other buildings on State
street. a large portion Of the best busi-
ness section Of the city is in ruins. The
telegraph wires are all down i'll the city.
BuSroH, November II, noon The gen
eral boundaries OF the conilaSration are :
The whole length and both sides of Sum-
mer street, across Fede'al, and nearly
down to brakes Wharf, and thence on
nearly direct line 10 Fort Hill, along
Hamilton, Battery and March to kilby
street. AS far aS Lindell and Central streets,
and fl, IN Milk to Summer, on Washington
| street Witl:Hl these boundaries, an area
| OF about seventy aces, every building is
con sumed
At two o'clock this morning gas ex.
plosion started fire, which crossed
Washington street, toward Temple Place.
Tie block corner of Washington and
Summer is dooed.
Ga. m-rhe fire is under control, be-
ing kept in the block between Summer
and Avon streets.
New YORK, November II, noon.-The
-Etna Insurance Company, of Hartford,
has bullctined ut its office here that its
losses bv the Boston fire will not exceed
| 81 .OUO, 900, and that its financial status
4 will not be affected thereby, its capital
being s, 5,OCU,UOO
PHILADELPHIA, November IL, noon.-
There is great depression in stocks here.
Cotton, groceries and breadstutfs are
without marked change, but wool, leatll-
er, and beets and shoes are held for a
material adYance.
DosToS. Eorember II, cycning.-The
local insurance COMPANIES will bc able to
pay about fifty per cent on their risks,
but capitalists are coming forward liber-
ally, and all may be able TO continue bn-
siness. The average loss is about $'l'o,
OOO-two companies reaching s9OO, 200.
NEW YORK, November II. evening"
| It is stated here thatonly three Insurance
com npanies have suspended, namely: The
International, the Corn Exchange and
the Humbolt.
President Oakley Of the Board of Un-
derwriters estimates tho insurance loss
in Boston at not over 500, 100000
The panicky feeling is dying out,
though little business has been transact
ed to-day in wool, hardware, leather or
dry goods.
The Edrefield Sabre Club.