Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-14
I'm Ashes
Another National Calamity
City Of Boston Burned!
Seventy Acres of Business Blocks
Destroyed!
THE HEART OF The ClTYLhE1
WASTE.
ichtcago's Woe collapsed
ESTIMATED Loss $50. 900, 900.
LSpECLL- Observation-Disclosures
BosTnN, Massn Nov. 10, 1872

BOSTnN, Mass, Noy. ~, 1917
| aei THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY,
Which hus fallen like q pals up
on tbs city, has meyer been sur
passed inGxtentGt valuable pro-
per,y destroyed rs any similar
canfIagratinn; not even except
ing tie fearful devastation bythe
irc-tiend at Chicago" Starting
III the most central portion of
the wholesale business section OF
the citr,a hundreds Of the most
extensive andelegant wur6 houses
have been tapped up 10y tie
liam s and reduced 10 ashes in IL
few moments. aBanks, nIercan-
tile and manufacturing houses
have been destroyed III the gem
efaT rnin,,i and Whole, blacks of
bui filings, where but yesterday
4 theleaetiven and bhsy SCIENCES of
eommercinp prosperity We're en-
deted, are to-day d heap Of smol
dering ruins.
.,. hre THE SEA OF FIRE -.g ss
Which isefstiH fiercely raging,
covers an area of, two hundred
acres. The scenes and lessons of
Chicago are again repeated.-
Thousands of clerks, working
| girls and men are thrown out of
employment, and the misery al
ready. created beggars descrip-
ton. Competent Judges estimate
that the losses by this fearful Ca
lamity viii not fall short of
ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS,
While the Indirect losses to m. r
chants and employers can never
be estimated. The fire was first
discovered Mt about seven O'clock
Saturday evening and before fit
ty people had reacEed the de-
serted streets in the great BUSH
ness center OF 1.-The confiagration
large volumes of smoke and
cracking flames we're bursting
out of the rear end of the large
fi~ve7story granite building Nos.
87g89 and 81 Summer street, Dir
rectlyL on the corner Of Kingston
street. AS the flames began to
spread through the story beneath
the roof, and before an engine or
hose was on the. ground,
GREAT VOLUMES OF FLAMES
burst out from the rear
lower stories of the building. In
less than twenty minutes the
whole broad facade, extending
fully enc hundred feet along
Kingston street, was one sheet
of lurid fame, as was also at the
same time the Summer street
front, the heat being SO intense
as to force the fremcn, who had
already arrived in large numbers,
away from the immediate vicinity
By this time a strong wind had
been CT Gated, the flames began to
sweep over Enmmer to Kingston
street, aud despite all the desper-
ate, unremitting efforts of the
fremen in every branch of the
Department, fire was communi-
Gated to the building on the op
posite corner of Kingston, as we'll
as to the great blocks OF the cor
ner of Summer and Otis streets,
and in less than half an hour
thereafter the flames We're burst
ing out Of the roofs all up and
down the fronts of these immense
structures. By this time the
wind had increased to nearly a
gale, and the flames having the
entire mastery of every thing.
swept from story to story, from
roof to root, from block to bloch,
and from corner to corner, dri-
wing the fremen from every van
tage ground they could secure,
and rendered all their exertions
useless and futile.
THE AREA COVERED BY TIE FIRE
Embraces. the district bounded
by Washington street on the west,
and the wharves on the east, and
from State street on the north to
the harbor and the Erie depot On
the south. This section embra
ces the most extensive and valu>
able of the wholesale portion OF
Boston ard Includes such promi>
nent streets as Summer, franklin,
Milk Federal, Congress, Pearl,
Water, Broad, High, Kingston,
Kllby, Devonshire and many
others.
BANKS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Tie banks thus far destroyed
are the National Bank of North
the National Revere
the Continental Bank, the
Mt. Vernon National Bank and
Ertigrant Saving, Bank. The
only daily paper destroyed is the
transcript, although the
Ereninq Traveller and Boston Posi-
buildings n considerably DANA
THE Widest EXCTTEMENT
Exists among all classes of COM
nunity, and the streets are pack