New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10
TERRIBLE FIRE IN BOSTON.

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! Boston, and State street is the Caroudelet
| street Of that city. The fire which is re-
ported in our columns this morning 60 IN
! menced on the corner of Summer and King
| ston streets. Summer is a parallel street
! with State, and half or three-quarters of
mile south Of it. Kingston street runs par
allel with Washington. and few streets
! east Of it.
| Between Washington and Broad streets
in one direction, and Summer and State
streets in the other, is the richest portion of
| the city. Within this area are the most
costly and magnificent granite ware
houses in the country, filed with valuable
stocks Of the most elegant goods. imported
or manufactured. From Summer nearly to
State street is the great centre of the dry
| goods trade. Pearl street is the centre of
| the shoe and leather trade. and east of
| that, toward and below Pearl street, are
wholesale grOcers. hardware dealers, etc.
1t is probable that up TO this writing
| Is a. N more value in buildings and stocks
of goods has been destroyed by fire in
| Boston than could be destroyed within
similar area IL any other city in the United
States. The cathedral, grand eGifice, has
been RACED to the ground. The Boston
Pilot Office has already been destroyed, and
the fire had reached the rear of the Tran
script buildings. The Journal, Post, Adoer-
tiscr and Troreller are all within short
distance Of each other, and on the cast side
of, or below Washington street, while the
Herald is on the westerly side of the same
street.
The fire extends towards South Boston,
but it cannot go far in that direction with
out sweeping off the United States Hotel,
the Worcester and Western railroad depot,
and the Old Colony railroad depot. No
other railroad depots are in that vicinity,
and no others are in peril.
Sweeping towards or to State street., the
new pOstofice building, the Merchants Ex-
change building, where the postofice is
fronting on that and streets leading to it,
| may be involved in the ruins of the confa-
grafton.
Extending eastward across Broad street,
and TO the wharves, business houses would
be swallowed up in the remorseless NAV
Of the fire fend.
Ali the New England cities will hasten
to the assistance of Boston with their hand
and steam tire engines. and the railroads
will take the machines along at the fearful
speed of a mile a minute.
Nog is this all. The sympathies of the
mighty people Of the great West will be
kindIed with fhe most generous impulses
for their distressed brethren, and the South,
with all its prejudices against Boston. will
if called upon, extend helping hand to her
in the hour of need.
Boston is great and honest and good. She
has been prompt and generous in contrbut.
ing to the relief OF starving and ruined
people and communities everywhere.
whether in ireland or Louisiana. and in her
hour of distress response will go to that
city. atfording convincing proof that the
people Of the two sections of the Union,
the North and the South are one and ind
visible in the bonds OF reconciliation and
sympathetic charity.
At FIVE o'clock this morning our reports
closed If the ire crosses State street, the
entire business portion of Boston will be in
ruins. Only the Boston Herald will yemain
Of the newspaper Offices of the city,