The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-11
MEASURES Eoss RELIEF.
CHICAGO PROFFERS AID.
Etc. Etc. ETC. ETC. ETC,
Especial to-, grams to the Dispatch

BosToS, November 10.--The greatest 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
will not cease until /! reaches the wharvc>.
There WAS hartlva breath Of wind stirring
when tie alarm wa. sounded about LalCpast
! O'Clock last night, followed By second,
third, and fourth in rapid succession but
the first engine was hardly on the ground
when the fire broke cut from the fOurtl,
story Of large four-stury granite store on
the corner Of Summer and Kingston
streets, occupied III tie first story hy
Tcbbetts, Baldwin s: Davis, wholesale
dry goods dealers. It had caught in the en-
ginc-room, and the flames sped with light
ming rapidity up the large elevator, and were
first seen climbing underneath the woodWcrk
of the root. The engines were hardly at
work before another store had caught. The
buildings in the vicinity were Ill of granite.
four stories high, and each SurmoUntcd with
Mansarl roofs, none Of them being over five
Years old. The detached >pllnters flew readi-
ly, as the air was heated by the terrible fire.
and soon the flames began licking the Mansard
roof On the oproSte side far above the reach
of tho streams directed upon it from II
quarters.
| The fire WIS constantly in the air, and one
building after another caught In the roof
and the llamos lcaped rapidly away from one
window-slll TO another, so that In less than
thirty minutes every check was blanched, Is
it became evident that the whole city in ono
direction was at the mercy Of the flames.
The second building to succumb was a.
rectly opposite to that in whi>h the fire broke
ont, and was occupied by NeaEn, Mullen &
Eln,s Harding Brothers & Co.; Bowen
Morse s Co. =; and Conant Brothcrs-al
wholesale dealers in tancy and dry goods
This was Mt the corner of Otis Place.
| The heat now became Internal. The
streets ran rivers Of water, and every mo-
ment was heard the sound Of granite blocks
exploding and whole frames faling in the
streets, making them impossible. The fire
men were driven from one station to an
other, and many an engine Nas Kept nobly
at work while the hydrant was wet down
by hand-hose, and the engineer could only
hold his place while the stream Of water was
kept playing Oh him.
Blocks Of granite weighing tons were
split as If by powder and hurled across the
wide streets, and planlls went flying through
the air IS If they were feathers. Firemer
erected barbados and worked behind them,
but they were burned almost as soon a:
erected.
An hour had hardly elapsed before 1t was
eyideat that Beebe's block, the finest bust
ness structure in the city, built Of granite
five stories In height, with the curved Man
sard roof over all, must go. Within thirty
minutes flames were coming OUT III merry Dlt
lows from every window. and up the stair
way leading to A. r. Stewards rooms was ;
perfccs column Of flames. This building
served but as fuel for the flames. Pieces
dry Goods went whstiiug across the square
landing on the window-siiis of the nlaSnih
cont stores on pevonshire street. Beebe''
block stood n solid wall Of granite seVera
minutes after the inside fell, but the bea
warped It. anI sa,0N0,0Q0 soon lag bsHp 9
stone. bricks, Raa tucrtaf'
! Tue hurricane fsW ingad, and owing Il
| the intense beat and perfect Shower Of Goals
drove everything before It. Every building
wns now heated as II in furnace, ant
caught like finder. Four-story granite blocks
seemed like shavings, and deafenny explo
lsious were constantly heard.
A new terror was now added TO the BABE
hf confusion. The teuement-houseS ut tb'
,,,n.r end of Federal street were fast being
licked ND by the flames, and womeil, crazet
and fainting, were rushing to and no. carry
ing children, crockery, clocks, ana beaain:
in their hands. One ran screaming thfougt
| High street with stovc-tunnel III her hauas
/ while another was tugging heavy ches
which would have been weight for stron:
man. Now and then q few pieces OF gooo
might be saved by volunteers, who ran ans
spent five minutes, during which they coeis
wosk, in bringing out, perhaps, hunarss
i pfeees of cloth. One map-~Marsnat