Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-11-14
LOSS BY THE FIRE,
S1OO,OOo,OOO.
PUT OUT.
Boston. Nov. e-Midnight,

Boston, Nov. Midnight.
The grandest fire ever known in New
England is now raging among the large
wholesale stores IN the very heart of the
business portion of the city, and i. will
not cease until it reaches The wharyes.
COMMENCEMENT. OF TILE coNFLAGRA-
sai 5ao fMl TIoN. sa-a
There was hardly a breath of wind
stirring when the alarm was sounded,
about nalf-past seven o'clock, followed
by a second, third and fourth in rapid
succession. But the first engine was
hardly on the ground when the tire
broke out from the fourth story of a
large granite store on the corner OF
Summer and Kingston streets, occupied
in the first story by Tebbetts, Baldwin
and Davis, wholesale dry goods deal
ers. 1t had caught IN the engine room,
and the. fame spfeal allil lightning
rapidity up the Large lieYat0r aud was
first seen climbing underneath the
woodwork of the roof. Tie engines
were fairly at work before any other
store had cBught. The buildings in the
vicinity were of granite, four stories
high, and each surInounted with Man.
lsard roof, none of them being over five
years old. Detached. splinterS few
readily as the air was heated by the
terrible heat, and soon the flames be-
gan licking the Mansard roof on the op-
posite side, far above the reach of the
streams directed upon it from all quar-
ters. The fire was constantly in the
air, and one building after another
caught on the roof and the flames skip
ped lightly along from one window TO
another, so that
In dESS THAN THIRTY MINUTES
every cheek was blanched. as it became
evidenttifat the whole city in one direc-
ton wasat the. mercy of the flames,
which were tapping gaily from roof to
roof and from one building to an
other. Phe second building to succulnb
was directly opposite to that in which
the fire first broke out, and was occupi-
led by Maff1n, Mullen & Elms, Harding
Bros. & Co., Bowen, Moore & Co., Geo.
Lide, Carter & Co., and Conaft Bros,
all wholesale dealers in dry and fancy
goods. This was at the corner of Otis
place. a.-,.,.{ {
THE HEAT NOW BECAME INTERNAL.
The streets ran rivers of water and ev.
cry moment was he ard the sound oi
IgraHite blocks exploding and whole
frames falling in the streets, making
them impossible. The fireman were
driven from one station to another, and
many an engine was kept nobly al
work, while the hydrant was wet down
Iby hand hose, and the engineer could
loDly hold his place while stream o.
water was kept playing upon him
4 Blocks of granite weighing tons were
1split as if by powder and hurled across
wide streets, and planks went flying
Through the air as if they were feathers
The firemen erected barricades anC
worked behind them, but they were
D burned almost as soon as erected.
Il THE WORK OF AN HOUR.
II An hour, had hardly elapsed befor'
!, it was evident that Beebe's block, th'
finest business structure in the city
, built of granite, five stories in height
with the cursed mansard roof over all
must go. Within thirty minutes th'
, flames were coming out in fire .billow
from every window and up the stair
tway leading to AT. Stewards room
was perfect column of fameS,z .Thi
building served but as for the flames
4 Pieces of dry goods went ,Whistlinl
|. tacross the square, lodging on window
lsillS of ofmagnificent stores on Deyonshir
lstreet. Beebe's block stood solid wal
! of granite several minutes after the in
! side fell, but the heat warped it, AM
: $2, 900, 900 soon laid heap of stone
brick and mortar. A hurricane nov
ragged, and owing to the intense hea
/, thing before it. Every building wa
now heated as if in furnace, AM
/ caught like tinder. Four story granit
5 blocks seemed like shavings, and deaf
4 lening explosions were constantly heard
THE WOOL HOUSES LICKED UP.
The fire was now, in Federal street
and the wool houses were going lik
: oil factories. They could never hav
1 been attacked at a more dangerou
: time, erammed from cellar to garret
9 Hundreds of thousands of dollars wort
Q were ON hand that might have been dc
llivered to customers had it not been fo
1.-THE horse disease. In one store alon
There were $1O0, 600 worth of wool stor
7 ed which was awaiting delivery. Mil
a ner, Beal e Hackett had their stor
1 packed full, having only put in tn
e last Of their winters stoak three hour
before the fire enveloped itall.
The only place where limits of tb
fire were reached is On Summer. stree
where the fire began. 1t swept in
northeasterly direction from there, an
II cannot tell where it will stop. Th
loss of course Is beyond computation.
! BosToN, November 1.-THE fire wa
got fully under control about 4 o'clocl
: thismorning. r5 -.
: The morning papers are almost ex
: clusively filed with the details of tn
e great confagration. The AdUcrtiser es
/, Inmates the total loss at $50, 900 900. TIL
i Post, on the authority of the leadin,
insurance officers places it at 500, 600,
l 600.
"WHITTLESEY." for sleeples
!, tcolicky babe,
"WHITTLESEY," for the blood
liver and Kidneys.