The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-15
BOSTON.
List Of the Killed and Wounded
E"Bread eaat Upon thO Wssorg."
MILITARY GUARD WITHDRAW.

BOSTON, November 14.-The work o
pulling down walls and clearing of tn
debris from the burned district Ia progress
Ing vigorously. AnGline is used eftectual
ly in blowing up the more solid ruins.
The Amazon and Triumph companIe
Of Cincinnati, Ohio, have stopped writing
policies In New England.
The Raliet Committee passed resolu
tons this morning thanking the people o
the country Tor their expressions Of sym
pathy, and the offers Of pecuniary aic
were accepted.
The following are the casualties by tht
fire SO far as known: Killed-Lewis o
Thompson, Lewis Porter Abbott, FranE
Olmstead, William Forry, Daniel Coch
raue and five Others, whose names are un
known. Wounded-Thomss Maloney
Col. freeman, William ]. Woodward, 6
w. Gardner, Francis Crosher, Charles
Haines, Thomas Waldron, John Richard
son, Peter Dygham and Albert @. Abbott
Mlssing-Joseph Burr, George Smith
Walter F. TwOmbly and John Dillon.
Albert G. Abbott, who Is believed 10 be
fatally injured, was to have been married
on Thanksgiving day. His brother Lewil
WAS killed, and leaves widow and eight
children. Their mother, It Is thought
will not survive the shock cOused by The
news Of the fate ol her sons.
New YORK, November 14.-The Bos
ton Journal says the fact that 100000
have already been raised In Chicago fol
the relief OF our sufferers by the fire, Is SC
marvellous that the gratitude Is In danger
OF being confused by extraordinary asso-
Citations. 1t suggests:
Never was there such a case of bread
being thrown upon the waters and return.
ing after many days. Only little over
q year ego, in a crisis Of general solicitude
which mono Oi US can ever forget, we
hurried our contributions TO Chicago; we
hoped they would help TO keep her peo.
pie alive till they should get fairly started
in the long weAry work Of rebuilding
their city, and now, out OF their abund-
ance, they are sending a glorious sum in
charge of glorious committee Ior the
relief Of Boston. That they can do such
thing at this time, is us encouraging To
all our business sufferers as the fact that
they have the heart TO do 1t, and Is CRATE.
ful and refreshing TO US all"
B0sToN, November 14-A large nart
OF the military guard over the ruins was
Withdrawn tonight, The experiment Of
blowing up the walls OF w. II GeasOn's
granite building, in the square formed By
the junction Of Sumner and High streets,
proved perfectly successful 10. day. The
first charge Of five pounds was effective
in blowing out the northerly wall only,
but a second charge Of twelve pounds,
one pound to cartridge, lifted the mas.
sive walls from their foundation, and
they dropped perpendicularIy into the
cellar and and upon the side walk, scarce,
Iy a stone diverging from direct down.
ward coursesO far as 10 fall into the street.
The safe OF Westcott s. Co, on High
street, was recovered to-day, and Its con
oI 100000 found uniniured after sixty.
two honrs exposure TO the intense
heat. The locality had been guard.
ed BY a detachment Of dragons. F.
A. Hawley & Co., bankers, whose tenn
porary suspension was announced, resum.
ed business to-day. 4
One daily, fifteen weeklies and eleven
monthly papers were burned out OF their
quarters by the fire; while almost every
publishing establishment in the city sui.
tered more or less.
The resolution adopted by the Relief
Committee 10 accept contributions from
other cities maid Of the sufferers will al.
lord immediate relief to many poor fami-
lies who lost their all, and 10 thousands
Of persons thrown out Of employment.
The noble generosity exhibited all over
country is calling forth thanksgiving from
thousands of grateful hearts.
Lieut.. Col. Atherton q. Stevens, Jr.,
died at his residence in East Cambridge
today. He was formerly in command ol
the first battalion OF Massachusetts Cav.
airy and Provost Marshal ol the 2Gth
Army Corps, lie was also the first Union
officer who entered Richmond and re-
coiVed Its surrender from Mayor Mayo.