The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-11-22
One Hundred Acres In the Heart
ofthe City Destroyed.
Los Upward OF One Hundred Million
Dollars.
Thrilling Details OF the Couaa.
grafton.

SA4e'so A-'Seh noHtos ago mas zee
repeated in Boston with almost fearful
exsciness. The following dispatche
tell the terrible story of ruin and devas
tation:
BosroS. Nov. "a fire broke out this even
ing IN one OF the large dry goods warehouse
on summer street, where q large number O
stores have been burned, with their contents
II spread on Summer street. sweeping in il,
course several large buildings occupied b,
dry goods. leather and other Wholesale com
mission merchants. Thence il syread e.s,
ward and southwark. consuming all before n
The efforts of the splendid fire department
appeared to be useless, for the confagration
kept on
ITS EEMoRsELEss WAY,
as ii did in Chicago. reaching Broad street 4.
quarter OF mic from where It commenced.
II 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.
smith-shops, carpenter-shops. and such tin.
dsr-!ike material. 1t will probably soon reach
the gas-work. bu, the most herculean efforts
are making to prevent the flames from reach
ing il.
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
ies OF water are being thrown on the buildings
threatened. the firemen being poweriess 10
eonquer the flames where they are raging.
The great granite dry goods house Of Beebe
4 Co., and other equally heavy merchants.
have succumbed TO the flames. Nearly Ali the
agencies and s:ore-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.
large number Of dwellin houses have
been burned. the inhabitants barely escaping
with their lives. Their household goods are
nearly all destroyed, either by the flames or |
falling walls.
The different. railroads sent special locomo. |
,ives to diferen, points on their lines and |
brought In engines. The fire departments of /
cambridge, Chariestown, and other suburban |
towns, are on duty. and are doing herculean
service. worcester. Providence and other
cries nave been ;elegraphed to for help.
Inc whole population Of the city has turned /
out, and
THE SCENE
- o"S VI INC Sianuest that can be conceived.
+! ne territory which is being devastated by the
James Is level plateau, extending from the
sustom-House. AT the foo: of State street. to
pover street bridge. embracing nearly two
niles IN extent. the main portion of which is
Low
SETTLING HELL OF FLAME,
.cAing up the fortunes of thousands OF our
,est citizens. who have struggled bard all
aer lives TO accumulate competence. The
limes can be seen a distance OF fifty miles
u. In Massachusetts Bay.
" 10 the present writing the ravages of
ne devouring element are confined mainly 70
asness portions Of the city. but ii seems
aev''able that tine flames Will extend to local.
'les occupied a. dwelling places.
lie streets are IL
CROWDED WITH VEHICLES, L.
iTying away from the track of the fire de- ,
lon the effects OF the unfortunates who are ,
yer; moment expecting that their home
'esds will be invaded.
40 make any estimate of the losses At this |,
.,ment would be simply prepostorous. As .
aillons' worth o. property has already been /,
tstroyed
BOSTON, Nov. 10. 1:30 q. m.-There is no !
oatement in the violence of the conflayra. !.
on. The fire lie sweeping everything before :
. zone and iron appearing to offer no I'M
eLment 10 Its progress. 1t threatens to in !
I'VE the whole city in one common ruin.
Sio .. m.-Lurid columns Of fame and s
noke, detonations caused by blowing mn Of !.
lungs. and the crushing and falling of =
ans make the scene
GRAND AND TERRIFIC. n
me whole Of Pearl street is in ruins. The o
'Ns so intense that the firemen cannot fight u
rucce6Efnlsr nd hA A~v~~
'a fearful effect. Building after building Is =
.n UP, with the only apparent effect of in !,
: ,aasg the terrible flame. Every newspa- g
!. omce IN the city except one has been de. e
s9!ed- The old State House, the Postoffice 10
- me Old South Church" dear to all Bos- N
R l,ans, have also been swept away.
=, Nov. lO-l2m.-The district covered 81
!, .ne nre may be said to include the largest
!. VI that Improvement Of Boston which
!, , ven made necessary by the recent devel- ",
~snI OF the commerce OF the city. The Of
~. tes which have been thus far DESTROYED hi
, ,Iue al the new streets devoted to the th
.. .. and Jobbing dry goods trade. the on
"a, s =. snoe trade, and most of those de- oil
ITO ~ 70 the wool business. With few ex- wi
rnsa ,ne warehouses destroyed are those tn
saped oy jobbcrs and wholesale dealers. sh
~ oe'ng scarcely retail store in the (at DO
III, a'lip burnt district, and very few
s smng houses. None Of the latter, indeed. =
~. some tenement houses near the water nj,
4 :. me eastern end of Sumner street. and ne
,.'e neishborhood Of the Old Colony Sta "a
:. PERSONS who have not lived here for I'm
a. years will remember Summer street. Arch an
"a, n'eh street, Franklin street. and Pearl frt
~ ~, ~ occupied by the residences Of come 10,
IA Me pest citizens Of Boston. Thew con-
n su :. one time some Of the most elegant 70
Ias'ons IN the world. Tho recent Advance ~,
d Ia business Of Boston, and, In particular. AZ
sas.selopmont since the war. has rendered no
\, s.essary Tor the shoe trlde. the dry goods do
=, and the wool trade, to ovsrstep the ne
~ " winch they were formerly confined A.,
! ~ y. establish themselves on these streets. m
: : me iayorlte dwelling places OF the ci,i. 70
:. 10 but six years since Sumner street M
~ from street Of quiet homes to 90
az tne most active wholesale business m,
rs. AZ late as 1865. Gov. Everett, Rev. ri
rockingham, and other gentlemen Of ~