The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-21

HoYT & CO., Proprietor
Further Particulars Of the Great Fire in
q, Boston. -
The annexed concise account of the recent
conaagration is copied from the Boston Jour-
nal:
Boston. has sustained the greatest calamity
recorded in her history. Eighty odd acres OF
territory. nine.tenths of which was occupied
by the finest palaces of trade in the city, have
been swept by fire. The section OF the city
which contained all the edifices which were
regarded with pride by every business man
and which combined the modern commercial
appliances with architectural beauty, are
mass of ruins. Summer street and FRANKLIN
street, the locale of the largest dry goods firms
in the city, Pearl street and High street, tne
headquarters of the leather, boot ana Sa;I,s snUe
trade. Washington street, from Summer to Milk
street and also Milk street, Congress street,
where the large wool houses are located, these
and Others enumerated below may be seen only
in sad outline of half burnt facades and skele-
ton side walls. The wjaltbiest portion OF the
city of Boston exists no longer, and since sat,
Irday night at halfpast seven, it is estimated
by the CITY assessors that property, real ana
personal. to the amount of between one and
two hundred million dollars has been destroyed.
Fortunately this heavy blow has not caused SO
Large an amount of personal suffering as the
great fire at Chicago, as there were but com
paratiyely few habitations destroyed LII bos-
ton. In the vicinity of Fort Hill and to the
South there were some tenements, anu many
families were driven out to find such shelter as
they could among the mass OF goods when ac-
cumalated upon the unimproved portion OF
Fort Hill.
The horrors of the dreadful fire at Chicago
were in q measure repeated on Saturday night
and Sunday morning, the same days OF the
week which witnessed that memorable hre.
The prospective extent of the fire was at once
almost forstold by those who witnessed the
angry flames as they plunged from wooden,
cornice to Mansard windows, and ran along the
tarred roof of the FIVE and six story buildings,
defying the efforts of the fremen to conquer or
subdue. Nearly all the buildings destroyed
were first ignited on the roof and burnt down.
ward, the roof falling in, and floor after hoor
crumbling as the rafters gave way, thus lnten-
sifying the material into one vast comoustloie
mass. BY twelve o'clock at night the streets
were crowded with teams carrying merchandise
TO places of safety. The Common, near the
depot of rescued goods, while City Hall yard
and the, interior of the building, and also all
the leading hotels were made receiving stations:
The streets were alive with people, male and
female, and the rattle of vehicles and the spec
ulations of the hundred thousand witnesses OF
the grand but sad sight was scene which we
trust we may never see repeated. :,
The light of the FIRE was seen at distance Oh
a hundred miles, and it cast over the surround.
ing country glare which seemed like the lurld
LIGHT of burning cauldron. The church stee-
pies, and especially the dome OF the State
House, stood out in brilliant magnlhcence,
while every street which centred upon the vast
confiagration was radiant with the light OF the
great fire. The fremen worked like giants, anu
we regret that report states that severai OF
these brave fellows perished in their attempts to
battle the flames.
Dispatches summoned to our succor engines
from aflr and near and rs they arrived on the
oround they met with 8 hearty reception,
Enough the great and general grief and excite
ment that prevailed prevented those hospltaii-
ties which would otherwise have been extern
With this brief Introduction we proceed TO
give the reports of the events of this great
nublic afiiction. No conhagration, with the
exception Of that at Chicago, ever approxima-
ted TO this. We trust the same heart ana en-
terprise which characterized our fellow-coun-
trymen of the West will be found to exist mere,
and that upon the now smoulderlng ruins
new Commercial Boston will arise, exceeding
in beauty and convenience that which has Deen
so ruthiessly destroyed, Already many VINO
were burned out are seeking Offices and stores
In which to resume business, and IN not lew
;nstances The trade OF large houses, which nave
ennnj;es at their manufactures in the country,
will mot be materially interrupted. The calam.
;tv occurs when mills are in full operation, and
in most cases orders can be executed for cur
rent demand, with little, if any interruption IN
the great New England staples, cotton ana
woolen goods, boots anG shoes, paper and otner
domestic fabrics.
Confident that we shall receive the universal
sympalthy of our country, which was 80 prompt
~ and generously exhibited towards our friends
in Portland and Chicago, under like circum-
stances, every effort will be made by our own
citizens to provide fol- themselves and ior tne
destitute.
This origin of the fire is really not known
tili..al sorts of conjectured reports are IN cir
cuIation. As fast as one theory is laid low oy
nv facts which dispute them, another springs
into existence. There are two almost equally
nonolar One is that the fire originated IN tine
fssement from the furnace and another that
it was ignited in the third story OF the building
corner Of Summer and Kingston streets. Ine
first seems the most plausible one. The pulid,
inp was heated by steam, and the lire could
have been ignited from the furnace under the
boiler and communicated at once to the third
story by means of the light wood elevator, and
then making its appearance at the elevator
doorway go that it could be seen from the street.
There was gentleman who, while on Summer
street. saw the light in the third story of the
building, while nothing was noticeable below,
and it Is thought the elevator doors of the
second were not open. And to this is added
the fact that in few minutes each fiat was on
fire. Therefore it is reasonable to believe from
the investigation made. by the reporter last s
night, that from an overheated furnace the nre
to the building originated that elerator-way
furnished draft; that the first light illamina,