Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-21


T. State House, Beacon street.
q Faneuil Hall, Dock square.
8. New Government Building, Post-OMce, Gus
tom House, etc., Devonshire, corner Franklin.
4. Western Union Telegraph and present Post
Ofice, State Street, near Washington.
s. Old South Church, corner Washington and
Milk streets.
Area of F,re-Greatest distance east and west, tn
south, three eighths of mile Area in acres, 100
not much injured, and from there west
ward Water street is safe.
SUNDAYS BURNING.
Such was the condition of things On
Sunday morning 1t seemed to bereason-
ably certain that the fire had reached it's
northern and southern limits, and so the
dwellings in the South End and the banks
and the various money Institutions on State
street as well as the business district be-
yond were considered safe. There was
still an unharmed region, however, be-
tween Congress and Brown streets, and
along the water, which was almost cut
off from the rest of the city by the flames.
The fire now burned back, and began to
devour this. All day Sunday and all
Nothing is left except some of the
wharves; for, though it is said the flames
were emily stopped by the water, it is a
fact that they reached the edge only in
few places, and the stories of the destruc-
ton of shipping are not true.
ON MONDAY.
Between twelve and one o'clock Mon
day morning fresh alarm was sounded
at the corner of Washington and Sum-
mer streets, where a terrible explosion of
gas threatened for time to carry the dis
aster across Washington street in the di-
rection of the Music Hall; Havey's dry
goods establishment and the two build
ings of Jordan, Marsh & Co. were men-
aced by this occurrence, but the firemen
succeeded, after several hours hard work,
in confning the destruction to four or
five stores, one of which was the great
iewelry store of Shrieve, Crump g. Lowe.
By Sunday noon the fire was said to be
under control. By three o'clock this
morning it was entirely checked, and we
| were able to consider the losses. In the
whole district I have described, embrac-
| ing sixty to eighty acres, not building
remains. The devastation is absolute and
universal. Here and there tottering
wall or tall chimney rises above the mass
of cinders, blackened with smoke, but
there is nothing that can be saved in the
process of rebuilding except bricks and
| foundation stones. The granite, espe-
cially, which was the favorite material in
this district, is reduced to fragments. 1t
will only be fit to grind for garden walks.
When Chicago was burned the fire capri
| ciously spared edifices in the very midst
here.
/ ruApAc Acrrp oE TtIr puTTDTNcs ne.
| sTROYED.
The buildings swept out of existence
| in day were the grandest of their kind in
the United States. In Chicago there were
acres of wretched wooden structures de-
stroyed, whose removal was, in one sense,
a benefit to the city; but here the loss
/ has fallen upon the most substantial part
of Boston. With the exception of the
region over toward the water, of
which I have already spoken, there
were no poor quarters in this
blackened waste. The great dry goods
houses, wool houses, leather houses, were
all burned here. For years past the pride
of Boston business men has been the erec-
ton of some real palaces in this district,
and except for the terrible fault of con-
prevailing disorder of Mansard roofs, the
result has been magnificent. There was
| Winthrop Square, with Beebe's splendid
building, and other structures of the same
class. There was Franklin street, with
its famous architecture. There were
numerous imposing blocks along Wash
ington street. Of late years the dry
goods jobbing houses have been gradual
ly moving toward Chelsea, and many of
them, consequently, escaped this
disaster; but the heavy commission
houses, which sell entirely by the pack.
age, all remained. All have gone down,
with, perhaps, one or two exceptions.
Pearl street was the chief leather mart of
New England, and that, too, is swept
away. The most of the wholesale cloth.
ing establishments were here, and those
that have gone employed no fewer than
houses were all in the burnt district,
and held enormous quantities OF
wool-no less than 1000, 900 pounds
for trade had been dull. The
same thing may be said of the
dry goods houses, which still held large
quantities of unsold winter goods, and
had just taken in an extra summer stock,
also. Wool, dry goods and leather are
the staples of our best trade. How com
plete is the destruction you may imagine
from the statement made to me on gooG
authority, this afternoon, that there re
mains not one wholesale wool house, no
one wholesale establishment in shoes, o.
leather, or hides, or hardware or paper
not one type foundry, and only one whole
sale crockery warehouse. Printing
houses and periodicals have gone by tn
score.
Only one daily paper was burned out
and that was the Transcript, which lost it
, beautiful new building on Washington
street. 1t has gone back to its old.quar
ters, and appeared this afternoon as usual
Still, about twenty weekly papers hav
, suffered. The Pilot and its establishment
one of the most complete of the kind il
the United States, comprising astereotyp
, ing and book printing house, and occu
pying splendid building, was entirel,
: destroyed.
, OF public buildings, besides those
mentioned, there were few, except st
Stephens Episcopal Church, and tn
House of Refuge for the Poor connecte,
!, with it, and Trinity Episcopal Church
+ Perhaps there is no city in the worl
, where fire of the extent of sixty acre
could ruin so many magnificent cor
Germs.
a PRIVATE AND DOMESTIC LOSSES.
] You will gather from these statement
! that, Awhile the pecuniary loss has beel
, enormous, the individual distress ha
! been comparatively light. We have ha
: none of the heartrending scenes tha
l signalized the Chicago disaster. Perhap
t 100 families in all have been turned int
e the streets, but there are hospitable door
r open to them, and they will not starve.
+ CONFUSION AND INCIDENTS.
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