Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-13
BY TELEGRAPH.
BOSTON VS.. CHICAGO.
Miles of Business Houses in
Ruins.
Seventy Acres in Ashes.
Post Office and ub-TreaSury
Burned.
LOSS FULLY S200,000,000.
LOSS FULLY S2O0,OOO,OOO.
Not a Wholesale Shoe House Left,
Wool Houses and Banks Suffer
Heavily,
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.

PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
Boston, Nov. 1O.-The fire alarm was
sounded at about half past seven o'clock,
on the 9th, followed by the second, third
and fourth in rapid succession. The first
engine had barely reached the flames,
when fire bursted from the fourth story of
q granite store, corner of Sumner and
Kingston streets, Il wholesale dry goods
store,
The fire caught in the engine room, and
the flames followed the elevators, and was
first seen under the roof The buildings
in that vicinity We're four story granite
with Mansard roofs, and the flames soon
reached the Mansard roofs on the opposite
far beyond the reach of the engines and
in less than thirty minutes the whole city
in one direction was at the mercy of the
flames, which leaped from roof to roof.
One great dry goods house after another
succumbed, and the.granite walls fell in
the street making them impossible,
THE FLAMES SPREADING.
9o'clOck Sunday.-Fire still raging. En-
gines driven from station. Granite blocks
weighing tons are split in fragments and
hurled across streets.
Later-Blowing up buildings on Lindell
and Congress streets to check flames.
Beebe's Block, the finest business struc-
ture in the city burned. Stewards rooms
| only 1eU tne names.
Pieces of dry goods went whistling across
squares, firing stores on Devonshire street.
Every building now heated to the verge of
| spontaneous combustion, and caught like
tinder. Deafening explosions constantly
| heard.
Tenement houses on Upper and Federal
streets now caught. Crazed women DASH
ing to and fro with clocks and bedding in
| their arms.
| The Wool houses in Federal street caught
neXt-they We're crowded from cellar to
| garrett Paper houses came next. Free
mans National Bank went.
Hour later National Bank of North
America went at midnight, loss estimated
at twenty millions. Several insurance
| companies must succumb.
THREE MILES BURNED.
Boston, MASS, Nov. 10. Three square
miles burned and the fire is still raging.
The Postoffice with the most Of Congress
street will go.
The fire has reached dimensions that
! defy description. People of Boston find
themselves in danger of their lives. Loss
of houses and property scarcely thought
of. People retiring before the flames to-
! ward fremont and Court streets, where
the fire was supposed to beunable to reach,
but gale is blowing and seems to have no
positive direction. 1t is probable that
Fanieul Hall and Quincy Market will 60.
The Union Telegraph office was aban-
doncd at half past eight
LATER.
! The fire is still raging with undated
| fury.
! WASHINGTON, Nov. ll.-Special dis
patches say that State street and, Par
ker House are saved. Chief engineer
Daniels was killed.
THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL.
Boston, Nov.1l-l p. M.-The gale is in
creasing but the fire seems 10 be suUsid-
! ing.
NoTE-This comes via Montreal.
BosToN, Nov. ll-l:30.-It is now conf
IDENTIFY believed that the fire is under con-
! troll. The losses, if no mole buildings are
are burned, will not fall far short Of $780,
! OOO, 600.
The burned district is bounded
10y Summer, Federal, Broad, Central,
Water, Washington, and Bedford streets.
Boston, Nov. II. The general bounda-
ries of the confagration are: The whole
| length and both sides of Summer street,
across Federal and enarly down to Drake's S
wharf and thence on nearly direct line
to Foot Hill, along Hamilton and Battery
March to Kilby street as far as Lindell and
! Central Street and from Milk to Summer
! and Washington streets Within these
| boundaries is an area of about seventy
acres. Every building is consumed.
LATER,-At two O'clock this morning,
gas explosions started fire which cross
edWashingtOn street toward Temple Place.
The block on the corner of Washington
and Summer is doomed.
AT six o'clock this morning the fire was
under control, being kept in the block be-
tween summer and Dcyonshire streets. A
fireman has just fallen off the top of a
building on Summer street.
The gas was only shut from a portion
of thirty buildings. Perfect order was
maintained in the streets. There We're
three explosions of gas at half past three
O'clock. The people have begun to be re-
lieved from the terrible excitement Of the
uncertainty regarding the spread Of The
fire.