The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-11

have no POSITIVE olrection. IL l8 prOpaole Lnat
Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market will be de-
stroyed. The Western Union telegraph office
was abandoned at half past eight o'clock.
No Abatement In tho Fury Of the Fire.
BosToN, Sunday, November 10-ll.30 II.
The fire is still raging with unsbated fury.
The Fire Claimed to be Under CONTROL
Communication with the Doomed City
Obstructed.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, November l2-Noon.
Reports from the Boston fire are contradic-
tory. The main telegraph offices are aban-
doned, and the wires melted. The cable and
other dispatches come by round about route,
but without interruption. Secretary Boutwell,
has dispatch sent from the Providence Ball
road Depot, In the western portion of the
city, saying that the fire Is under control.
Special dispatches received here say that State
street and the Parker House, on School street,
are safe.
Five Miles or Streets In Ruins-The
Flames SubsidIug.
BOSTON, Sunday Nov. 10-l P. NJ,
| (Vla Montreal.)
| The gale is Increasing, but the fire seems
| subsidIng. Chief Engineer Daniels, of the Fire
Department. was killed this morning by q
falling wall. Five miles of the heaviest busl-
ness streets of Boston are burned.
Tho Bounds Of the Disaster-Loss $780,
100000.
BosroN, Sunday, Nov. lO-l.sO P. NJ,
(VIa Montreal.)
1t is now confidently believed that the fire Is
under control. The losses, If no more build
.lngs are burned, will not fall short Of two hum
dred million dollars (s2oO, ,000, ,000.) The burnt
district is bounded by Summer, Federal.
Broad, Central, Water, Washington and Bed
ford streets.
The Newspaper Omces In tho Track OF
tho Storm Of FIre-A Crowded Hesi-
dence Section Burned.
BosroN, Sunday, November lO-2 P. N.
The fire is now believed to be under control.
The Old South Church, on Washington street,
at the head of Milk, Is saved. The Boston
Transcript office, on Washington street, near
Water, is destroyed, and the office of the Bes-
ton Post, at the corner Of Devonshire and Wa
ter streets. is badly damaged. Only portion
of the walls of Trinity Church are standing.
All the residences In the Fort Hill section, in
Guiding Gridley, High and Broad streets. are
burned, rendering hundreds of families home
less.
The places for the custody Of thieves are
overwhelmed, and they are only arrested to
be Immediately discharged.
LArER.-The fire has crossed Washington
street.
A Fresh Outbreak Reported-Contra-
dIctory Rumors at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, November 10-l P. N.
A private dispatch received here says that
the fire has broken out afresh and crossed
State street., and that the whole clty Is
threatened. This dispatch is dated Boston,
$50 P. II,
Secretary Boutwell, has received dispatch
saying that the postof1ce and sub-treasury are
burning. The malls are safe, and Faneull
Hall will be used, temporarily, for the post.
Office.
LATER.-There is no confirmation of the re-
port that the fire has crossed State street It
Is hoped that the dispatch to Secretary Bout
well alludes to the new postoflce on Devon
shire street.
Three chief financial officers have been sent
to Boston to look after the national banks and
the sub treasury.
The Fire Fiend Sated-A Terrible Sum
mary or the Destruction-Two Hun.
dred Acres OF DesolatIon.
Boston, Sunday, November 1o-S P. N.
The confagration is now stayed, and the
remaining portion of the city is supposed to be
safe. The havoc continued for eighteen hours,
destroyed hundreds of the costllest buildings
10 the country, and paralyzed the shoe and
leather, wool and dry goods trades. Not one
wholesale shoe and leather establishment is
left standing; all the wool houses have shared
the same fate, and the remaining dry goods
and jobblng houses are few and far between.
It is roughly estimated that over two hundred
acres have been burned, and the loss Ia varl.
ously stated at from one to three hundred mh.
lion dollars.
The fire was reported under control and sub
sidlng at about P. N. 1t burst out again at
P. ~, and for time seemed to threaten the
destruction of the whole city. An hour later,
however, 1t was again got under control, and
It Is now thought that all danger OF further
loss is past.
The mails were taken this noon from the
postoff1ee to the customhouse for safety. The
chief engineer of the fire department was
killed while engaged loading mine.
The Ninth Regiment OF the Massachusetts,
National Guard, with detachments from other
militia regiments, are on duty protecting the
millions OF dollars worth of property strewed
over the burnt district.
The following are few of the most impor-
tant out Of the hundreds of business houses
burned:
Bow6oin & Brown, Sleeper, Fisk & Co.,
Stephenson Bros, D. P. Ives d Co.,
Despaux, Bros. Il Co., A. D. Williamson & Co.
Rice, Kendall & Co.
THE GHOULs.
First Day OF tue Woodruff -Claflin Trial
NEW YORK, November 8.
Examination In the case of Luther @.
Challis, against Victoria Woodruff and Tennie
4, <,,ar- N.1nna1 p1ond oDd nthors for an