The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-11-15
Destructive Fire in Boston.

ported 10 nave utNlIONeV nTopcTl. w NV
amount Of two hundred million dol
lars,
The alarm was sounded about I, fol-
lowed by n second, third and fourth
alarm in rapid succession. The first ell
dine was hardly on the ground when
the flames burst from fourth story
granite wholesale dry goods store on
the corner Of Summer and Kingston
streets. The Iirc caught in the engine
room aud the flames followed the Gle.
vatOrand were first seen underline roof
The buildings in the vicinity were four
story granite with mansard roofs.
The flames soon reached the mansard
roofs on the opposite side, far beyond
the reach of the engines. in less than
thirty minutes the whole city in one
direction was at the mercy Of the flames,
which lcapcd from roof to roof. One
great dry goods house after another sue
rumbcd. Granite walls fell in the street
making them impossible.
Tho engines are driven back from
station TO station. Granite blocks
weighing tons split IN fragments and
are hurled across the streets.
Dcatcning eXplosioRs,wcrc constantly
| heard. Tenement houses on upper and
/ Federal street now caught. Crazcd wo.
men rushed to and fro with clocks aud
bedding in their arms. Warehouses on
Federal street caught next; they were
crammcd from cellar to garrett. The
paper houses came next. The Iirman's
National Bank went next. An hour
| later, and the National Bank Of North
America went. At midnight the loss
was estimated at twenty millions.
The blowing up of buildings on Tin
/ dcllS and Congress streets, was rcsortcd
to to check, the flames. Bccbc's block,
I the finest business structure in the city,
is burned Stewards rooms only fed the
/ flames. Pieces of dry goods went
whi,tllng across squares, firing stores
on Dcvonshire street. Every building
is now heated TO the verge Of sponia-
ncous combustion and catches like
finder.
Three square miles are burned, the
fire still raging,
/ The Post Office with the most Of Con-
grcss street will 90.
/ LATrn.-lirc has reached dimensions
that simply defy description. Tine pco-
( pie of Boston find themselves in danger
Of their lives.
/ Loss of houses and property now
scarcely though of. People are retiring
before the flames toward fremont and
Court streets, where the fire is supposed
TO he unable TO reach; but gale is
blowing and seems to have no positive
direction. The Western Union Tclc.
graph office was abandoned at half past
eight O'Clock,
WAsmNGToN, Nov. lO.-A special
dispatch says that State street and the
Parker House are saved. The chief fire
engineer. DannclN.w killed by falling
walls. Five miles of streets are burn
ed.
BosToN, Nov. lO-l'hc conilagraiOn
was checked at one O'Clock. after fifteen
hours havoc, and after having destroy
ed hundreds of the costlicst buildings
in the country, and having temporarily
paralyzcd the shoe and leather, wool
and dry goods trades. Not one whole.
sale shoe and leather establishment is
left. The wool houses suffered in like
manner, and dry good, jobbing houses
are few and far between.
RosToN, Nov. 10 80 T.. M.-Thc fire
was cot we'll under control li:tlc after
midday, and has not extended since
The following are the general bounda
rieS of the cOnilagration Tho whole
length and both sides of Summer street
} across Federal and nearly down f.
brakes wharf omd thence in a dircct
line TO Fort Hill, along Hamilton an(
Battery march to Kilby street, as far a
IindrIl md Contract street and from
: Min ,o summer on Woshiuo,on s,rcct
; within these boundaries. nm orcn q
ucorlv seventy acres, cverv Luildino j.
consnmcd
boSloN. NOV, II, - \. M.-lhc streets
are now perfectly quiet. Two hundred
= ana MY mounted soldiers patrol TIT
streets and no one not having oiliria
f authority from The commandant is per
mN'ed 10 pass me INES OF ln'ah'rN.-
One man who attempted to enter
store on Winter street aid who refused