Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-14

! part OF business men, owners OLE ISdi
estate and others, Chief Engineer. Dam
rell, just before 3 O'clock, gave the or
der to rope off the streets leading into
Milk street, PREPARATORY to blowing up
the buildings on the south side of that
street. A body Of United States mar
! ines from the navy yard marched up
l. Washington street about 5 o'clock, and
rendered their service ON police duty,
which were Immediately accepted. . r-
The trains were laid in Federal street
about 2o'clock and the street was I'M
mediately cleared for action. At 3,45
o'clock this AN the destruction of build
ing in the path of the confagration by
the explosion of thegtinpowder was
+ begun in good earnest, the shocks
shaking the city, to its foundation. 1t
is to be. hoped that the city may be saw
ed by this means, as nothing else will
The frenen, though exhausted by
their arduous labors, are still working
with a will, but it is plain to be seen
that water alone offers no weapon pow
erful enough to fight the fire 6end. At
4,O5 o'clock a most telTi6ce explosion
took place, which undoubtedly didgood
service. At 4,30 buildings on Devon
shire street were blown to atoms A
determined effort is being made to pre-
! vent the further PROGRESS of the, flames
northward The Transeipt, building
caught fire just before 4 O'clock, the
flames bursting into the rear and spread
ing with such rapidity that all hope of
saving it was at once dispelledc At
4 o'clock this morning the IRE extend
ed from Washington street ON the west
to the wharves on the east, and from
Milk street On the north to the Hart
ford and Erie railroad bridge ON the
south the area of the burnt district be-
ing roughly estimated at seventy five Or
one hundred acres. T..
The estimate Of & Nell-kuowni real
estate man is that the. loss. ON buildings
will Average S12 pei foot for this area,
and therefore we have a grand total
loss iii buildings alone of upwards of
| $1Oo;0oo;0Go. So fierce was The march
of the flames and so irresistible that
merchants on Oliver steet when they
! were first made aware Of the danger
essayed to move their goods, but could
not on account of the heat; and there
fore they burned where they were. At
an early hour in the evening the State
printing office was destroyed, checking
the fire. 5,12 A. Nat this hour the
progress of the fire southwark has been
checked, aud also in great measure to-
wards the southeast, the extreme limit
Of the devastation in that direction
being the Hartford and Erie railroad
depot, extending, however, out on the
road and burning the bridge; then it
runs along Broad to India street, taking
all the intermediate wharves, and des-
troying few vessels.
BosroN, Nov. 10, 1.20 P. M.-The
loss, if no more buildings are burned
will not fall short of two. hundred mil
lions Of dollars: and will perhaps exceed
that figure by fifty millions.
The conhagration was got under con-
troll at about one o'clock, having in fiji
teen hours destroyed hundreds of the
costliest and most substantial warehouses
in the country, and temporarily paralyz
ing three of the leading mercantile in
terests, the shoe and leather, wool and
dry goods trades. 1t is said there is
not one wholesale shoe and leather es-
adjustment left in Boston The wool
trade has suffered in an equal degree,
and the dry goods jobbing houses are
few anil far l1etWapji
The Ninth regiment, with detach-
ments from other regiments amounting
to LOO men are on duty, protecting
property and preserving order. Three
p. 1.-THE progress of the flames is
checked, and the fire seems to be well
under control everywhere. The new
postoffice and subtrcastlry building
was for long time exposed to the
fierce flames and smoke, but was scarce
ly SCARED. This massive fre-proof
structure saved the Boston Morning
Post building, directly opposite, and
helped greatly i'll preventing the fire
from reaching State street. The old
South Church also eseaped, though
several times owen Mn for lost