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apparatuses. Goods placed in State street for
safety are being transferred to more distant
quarters.
Boston, Nov. 1o-4:50 Il. m.-The employees
are NOW leaving the Western Union Telegraph
Office. Men have been sent to the Providence
depot in Boston to top the wires and work to
New York.
BOSTON, Nov. 10-4:55 a. m.-The gas is now
going out in the telegraph Office.
Boston, Nov. 10, q. m.-The Boston Office Of
the Western Union Telegraph is still intact. The
rumor that buildings in the rear Of the Office
would be blown up to stay the progress OF the
fire created panic, but the idea has been aban-
doned now. The fire is now about 150 yards
from the Office The wind is falling slightly, and
the heat is not felt so much. At o'clock op-
orators we're obliged to work in their shirt sleeves.
The Old Brick church, up to few minutes
since, was not in flames, but is threatened seri-
ously. Manager Milliken, with all his force,
save three pickets in the main Office, is en- route
to the Providence depot, where he will endeavor
to maintain regular communication with outside
points. The gas came up in few minutes after
it was reported as going out.
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New YonK, Nov. .10.-Despatches from Boston,
midnight, say that the greatest fire ever known
in New England is at this hour raging among
the large wholesale stores in the very heart OF
the business portion Of the city, and it will not
cease until it reaches the wharves. There was
hardly abreath of wind stirring when an alarm
WAS sounded, about 1880 O'Clock, followed by
second, third, and fourth in rapid succession,
but the first engine was hardly on the ground
when the fire broke out from the fourth story
of q large four-story granite store on the corner
OF Summer and Kingston streets, occupied in
the first story by Tebbets, Baldwin d Davis,
wholesale dry goods dealers. It had caught in
the engine room, and the flames spread like
lightning up the large elevator, and were first
seen climbing underneath the woodwork Of the
roof.
The engines we're fairly at work before any
other store had caught. The buildings in the
vicinity we're all Of granite, four stories high,
and each surmounted with Mansard roofs; none
Of them being over five years old Detached
splinters flew readily, as the air was heated by
the terrible heat and soon the flames began
licking the Mansard roof on the opposite side,
far above the reach Of streams directed upon it
from all quarters The fire was constantly in
the air, and one building after another caught
on the roof, and flames skipped lightly along
from one window-sll to another, SO that in less
than 30 minutes every cheek was blanched as it
became evident that the whole city in one direc-
ton was at the mercy Of the flames which we're
leaping gaily from roof to roof, and from one
building to another.
The second building to succumb was directly
opposite to that in which the fire first broke out,
and WAS occupied by Mahn, Mullen t. Elms;
Harding Bros. g. Co.; Bowen, Moors d Co.;
George Lide; Carter l. Co., and Conant Bros.,
all wholesale dealers in dry and fancy goods.
This Was at the corner Of Otis Place.
The heat now became internal. The streets
ran rivers Of water, and every moment WAS
heard the sound Of granite bloc ks exploding,
and whole frames falling in the streets, making
them impossible. The fremen we're driven from
one station to another, and many an engine Was
kept nobly at work, while the hydrant was vet
down by q hand-hose, and the engineer could
only hold his place while stream Of water #as
Kept playing upon him. Blocks of
granite weighing tons were split
as il by powder, and hurled across
wide streets, and planks went flying through
the air as It they we're feathers. The fremen
erected ba11icades and worked behind them, but
they we're burned almost as soon as erected.
An hour had hardly elapsed before it WAS evi-
dent that Beebes Block, the finest business
structure in the city, built Of granite, five stories
in height, with the cursed Mansard roof over all,
must 20. Within thirty minutes the flames were
coming out in fiery billows from every window,
and up the stairway leading to A. T. Stewards
rooms WAS perfect column Of flames. This
building served but as fuel for the flames.
Whole pieces OF dry-goods went whistling across
the square, lodging on the Window-sills Of the
magnificent stores on Deyonshire street.
Beebe's Block stood solid wall Of granite
several minutes after the inside fell, but the
heat warped it, and $4,000, 900 soon lay heap
OF stone, brick and mortar. a hurricane now
ragged, and, owing to the intense heat, and per-
feet sleet of Goals, drove everything befora it.
Every building was now heated as it IN fur
mace, and caught like tinder. Four-story gran
ite blocks seemed like shaVings, and deafenlng
explosions were constantly heard.
A new terror was now added to the babel OF
confusion. The tenement houses at the upper
end of the street we're being fast licked up by
the flames, and women, crazed and fainting,
we're rushing to and fro, carrying children,
crockery, clocks, and bedding. One ran scream
ing through High street with stove
| funnel in her hands, while another was
tugging heavy chest which would have been q
weight for strong man.
Now and then 8 few pieces OF goods might be
saved by volunteers who ran in and spent five
| minutes, during which they could work in bring
| ing out perhaps a hundred pieces Of cloth One
man, Marshal Cotter, got ont $4,000 worth OF
kid gloves, and had them placed on the sidewalk
| in q damaged condition. He offered hackman
| $500 in vain to take them to q place Of safety.
In less than an hour he had to fee for his life,
and the flames were not again cheated Of thei1
| prey.
The fire WAS now in Federal street, and the
wool houses we're going like oil fac
tories. They could never have been attacked
at q more dangerous time, craumed from cellar
to garrett. Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
worth were on hand that might have been de-
liyered to customers had it not been for the
horse disease. In one store alone there Tere