Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-21
Terrible Conflagration in
Boston.
One Hundred Acres in the Heart
of the City Destroyed.
Loss Upward of One Hundred Million
Dollars.
Thrilling Details of the Conha-
grafton.

repeated in Boston with almost fearful
exactness. The following dispatches
tell the terrible story Of ruin and devas-
tation:
Boston, Nov. "a fire broke out this even
ing IN one of the large dry goods warehouses
on Summer street, where large number of
stores have been burned, with their contents.
1t spread on Summer street, sweeping in its
course several large buildings occupied by
dry goods. leather and othec wholesale COM
mission merchants. Thence it spread east
ward and southwark. consuming all before 1t. |
The efforts of the splendid fire department |
appeared to be useless, for the conhagration |
kept on
ITS REMoRsELEss WAY,
as it did in Chicago, reaching Broad street, q
quarter of mile from wnere it commenced. |
It was soon raging among the wooden build
ings which extend for mile on the edge of
the harbor toward South Boston, including
coal-yards, wood-yards, grain-stores, black
s1nith-shops. carpenter-shops, and such tin
der-like material. 1t viii probably soon roach
the gas-work, but the most herculean efforts
are making to prevent the flames from reach
ing it.
The fire has also spread toward State street,
and has swept to KIlby and Milk streets. the
magnificent granite buildings on Federal,
| Franklin and Water streets seeming to offer
| no impeachment to the flames. Immense bod
| les of water are being thrown on the buildings
| threatened, the fremen being powerless to
conquer the flames where they arc raging.
| The great granite dry goods house of Beebe
& Co., and other equally heavy merchants,
have succumbed to the flames. Nearly all the
agencies and store-houses of the various cot
ton mills and print works of Lowell and Law
| renee have been burned, with immense stocks
of goods alone worth
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
In Kilby street the buildings were of old
fashioned, heavy granite construction, mostly
occupied by the hardware trade, whose losses
are simply immense.
A large number of dwelling-houses have
been burned the inhabitants barely escaping
with their lives, Their household goods are
nearly ali destroyed, either by the flames OF
falling walls.
The different railroads sent special locomo-
tives to different points on their lines and
brought in engines. The fire departments OF
Cambridge, Charlestown, and other suburban
3 towns are on duty, and are doing herculear
3 service. Worcester, Providence and othel
: cities have been telegraphed to for help.
The whole population of the city has turned
out and
s THE SCENE
: is one of the grandest that can be conceived
e The territory which is being devastated by tn
4 flames is a level plateau, extending from tn
Custom-House, at the foot of State street, t
o Dover street bridge, embracing nearly tw
miles in extent, the main portion OF which i
# now
). SETTLING HELL OF FLAME,
: licking up the fortunes of thousands of on
- best citizens, who have struggled hard a
Is their lives to accumulate competence. Th
N flames can be seen a distance of fifty mile
out in Massachusetts Bay.
Up to the present writing the ravages
II the devouring element are confined mainly
Of business portions of the city, but it seen
III -, a., 70
G. ties occupied dwelling places.
: The streets are
CROWDED WITH VEHICLES,
- carrying away from the track of the fire d
;, mon the effects of the unfortunates who a
IT. every moment expecting that their hom
Ir. | steads will be invaded.
by THE LOSSES
n To make any estimate of the losses at IL
moment would be simply preposterous,
as millions worth of property has already be
of destroyed.
VI BosToN, Nov. 10, 1880 a. m.--There is
LII abatement in the violence OF the cont1agl
of ton. The fire is sweeping everything befo
m it, stone and iron appearing to offer no Il
| pediment to its progress. 1t threatens to
'h- volve the whole city in one common ruin.
oll- $40 a. m.-Lurid columns of flame a
las smoke, detonations caused by blowing up
:, buildings, and the crushing and falling
walls make the scene
der
GRAND AND TERRIFIC.
hat Ing mnole Va eail . 40 - oa,,+ e.
md it successfully, and the flames are ragi
with fearful effect. Building after building
ted blown up, with the only apparent effect of
80 creasing the terrible flame. Every newsl
leu per Office in the city except one has been
stroyed. The old State House, the Postof
ON and the " Old South Church, dear to all B
tonlanS have also been SWeDt awav.
9cts BoSToN. Nov. -12m.-The district cove
erly BY the fire may be said to include the larg
net part of that improvement of Boston VIII
or,- has been made necessary by the recent de,
opment of the commerce of the city.
streets which have been thus far destro
ON include all the new streets devoted to
Their wholesale and jobbing dry goods trade,
:. boot and shoe trade, and most of those
le IL voted to the wool business. With few
en- ceptions, the warehouses destroyed are til
yard occupied by Jobbers ana wholesale Deal
there being scarcely retail store in the
presently burnt district, and very
' are dwelling houses. None of the latter ind
~ of except some tenement houses near the wa
line, at the eastern end of Sumner street,
laus- in the neighborhood of the Old Colony
fear ton. Persons who have not lived here
most | some years will remember Summer street,
are et oocnnied 'hv tha res;dences Of =
wood of the best citizens of Boston. They
-ror mansions in the world. The recent adv
In the business of Boston, and, in particl
lners its development since the war, has rend
using it necessary for the shoe trade, the dry g
trade and the wool trade, to overstep
:: bounds to which they were formerly conf
n, LII and to establish themselves on these str
two once the favorite dwelling places of the
zens. 1t is but six years since Sumner g
,aor- was changed from street of quiet hom
nu1i one of the most active wholesale bus'
the streets. As late as 1865, Gov. Everett,
Mr.. rockingham, and other gentlemen
nited uiet literary tastes, resided in Summer st
but for the past two or three years, there
not been single dwelling house in that st
lse of 1t has been wholly rebuilt with the most
nded stantial granite warehouses. Trinity Oh
o,vv still stood in Summer st., but arrangem
had been made for its reconstruction Il
oris's othar part of town.
The destruction of Pearl and High st
risen has wiped out the largest boot and shoe
= 90 in the world for this industry in this col
u "io was conferred there. very large part OF
leather trade, of the trade in shoe-hnd
EN- and other trades connected with the boo
L. - shoe trade also found their center II