The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-15
SUBSEQUENT DISTINCTIONS,

| SUBSEQUENT DISTRACTIONS.
Such was the condition of things on Sunday
morning. 1t seemed to be then reasonably
certain tina: the fire had reached its northern
and southern limits, and 30 the dwellings 81
| the South End and the banks and various mon
eyed institutions on State street, as we'll as the
| business district beyond. were considered sale
| between Congress and Broad streets. ant
along the water which was almost cut off from
| the rest of the city by the flames. The fire
now turned back and began to devour this
ALI day Sunday and all Sunday night the de
struction went on. Nothing is left excep
| some Of the wharves, for though 1t is common
| ly said the flames were only stopped by thu
water, 1t Is fact that they reached the edge
only iE few places, and the stories OF the de-
struction of shipping are not true. Between
twelve and one O'Clock, Monday morning,
fresh alarm was sounded at the corner o.
Washington and Summer streets, where ter
rlble explosion Of gas threatened for Time te
carry the disaster across Washington street 10
the direction of Music Hall. Hovers's DRY
goods establishment, and the two buildings oi
Jordan, Marsh & Co., were menaced Dy tnlt
occurrence, but the firemen succeeded: NteI
several hours' hard work, IN conhnlng tns az
sIruclion to four or five stores, one OF whlcn
was the great jewelry store OF ShreVe, Cramp
& Low. BY Sunday noon the nre was g. saio at, 70
Ing 1t was entirely checked, and We were able
to consider the losses.
EIGHTY ACRES COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
In the whole district have described, en-
braclng sixty to eighty acres, not building
Remains. The devastation Is absolute and
universal. Here and there q totterlng wall or
tail chimney rises above the mass Of clndcrs.
b.ackened with the smoke, but th6Te is no
thing that can be saved in the process OF re-
bnilding, except bricks and foundation stones.
The granite especially. which was the favorlte
material In this district, ls reduced to dust and
fragments. II will only be fit to grind up for
garden walks. When Chicago was burned me
fire caprlclously spared many edldces Ia tne
very midst OF the ruined district, but it is not
80 here. AS far as I can learn everything has
gone as completely as If the whole region had
been converted toto furnace.
UNUSUAL VALUE OF THE BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
The buildings thus swept out of existence
in q day were the grandest OF their kind IN
the United States. In Chicago there were
acres OF wretched wooden structures deS.
troyed, whose removal was In one sense
benefit to the city; but here the loss has fallen
upon the most substantial part OF Boston.
With the exception of the region over toward
the water, of which have already spoken,
there were no poor quarters 10 the blackened
waste. The great dry goods houses, wool
houses and leather houses were all here. For
years past the pride OF Boston business men
has been the erection Of commercial palaces
In this district, and, except for the terrible
fault Of construction use OF bad material
and the prevailing disorder of Mansard roofs
the result has been magnificent. There was
Winthrop Square, With Beebe's splendid build
ing and other structures OF the same class.
there was Franklin street, with .ts famous
architecture. There were numerous I'm.
posing blocks along Washington street. or
late years the dry goods jobblng houses
have been gradually moving toward
Chelsea, and many sI OF them nn, ,,o eonse, Saa1s
commission houses, witch sell entirely by the
package, all remained, and all have gone
down, with perhaps one or two exceptions.
Pearl street was the chief leather mart Of New
England, and that, too, is swept. The most OF
the wholesale clothing establishments were
here, and those that have gone employed no
fewer than ten thousand girls. The great
wool houses were oil In the burnt district, and
held enormous quantities OF wool, no lees than
q million pounds, for trade he'd been dull.
The same thing may be said Of the dry
goods houses, which still held large quantities
of unsold winter goods, and had just taken In
an eXtensive GUNNER stock also. wool, dry
goods and leather are the staples of Boston
trade. How complete Is the destruction, you
on good authority this afternoon, that there
remains not one wholesale wool house,
not one wholesale establishment 10
shoes, or leather, or hides, or hardware, or
paper; not one type foundry and only one
Wholesale crockery warehouse. Printing
houses and periodicals have gone by the
score.
NEWSPAPERS BURNT oUT-PUBLIC BUILDINGS
CONSUMED.
Only enc daily paper was buraed out, ana
that was the Transcript, which lost Its beautl-
gone back to Its old quarters, and appeared
this afternoon as usual. But about twenty
weekly pspers have suffered. The Pilot es.
tablishmelit. one OF the most complete OF The
kind In the United States, comprising stere-
otypiDg and book printing house, and occupy
ing q splendid building, was entirely de.
stroyed. Of public buildings besides those l
have mentioned, there we're few except St.
Stephens Episcopal Church and the House of
Refuge for the Poor connected with 1t, and
Trinity Episcopal Church. Perhaps there Is
no CITY In the world where fire Of the extent
of sixty acres could ruin 30 many magnificent
concerns. You will gather from these state
ments that while the pecunlary loss has been
enormous the Individual distress has been
the heartrendipg scenes that slgnallzed the
Chicago disaster. Perhaps one hundred fami.
lies In all nave been turned into the streets,
but there are hospiable doors open to them,
and they will not starve. During the first night
there was, OF course, terrible confusion, but not
much disorder. Very little property was re-
moved from the threatened buildings, because
no conveyances could be hired TO take 1t.
Most of the horses were sick, and perhaps 1t is
well that they were, for II the narrow streets
had been blocked any more with wagons and
drays, the, disorder would have been frlghtful.
As It was the 1remep were cramped for room,
and long before the fire had reached It's height
the streets were nearly all impossible. Few
piles of goods may still be seen on the Com
mon, and small valuables were often carried
off by hand. / saw one man, TOR instance,
going off with his wife under one arm and the
broken foot of china vase under the other.
But as rule, 1t may be said that the goods ln
store wers too bulky to be removed, even had
the fire not very soon cut off communication.
The loss, therefore, Is In almost all cases q
total one. The circumstances difer from those
OF Chicago In another particular, the direct
loss falling entirely within the City OF Boston.
and on the class which is best able to bear II.
The insurance Was chiefly IN Boston compa-
MES, for Boston underwriters were always
eager to take risks on the very property which
has been 30 suddenly destroyed. How many
of the companies will 60 down you may esti-
mate from another dispatch, but even II the
worst anticipatlons should be realized, the loss
Is not more than the city can easily endure.
PLUCK OF THE PEOPLE.
The courage oil the people Is magnificent.
When I passed through the burning streets at
two O'Clock this morning, found men who
had lost everything cropping their way through
the lurid smoke, looking for the ruins of their
stores to put up piacards among the still burn.