The New York herald., 1872-11-11

vicinity OF MIX Broad and Kilby streets and around
Liberty square.
The buildings totally destroyed on Devonshire
street. between Milk and Water streets, were the
Home Insurance Company, Eastern Express Com
pany and National Bank OF the Commonwealth. At
halfpast ten O'Clock the fire was confined to
comparatively small radius.
CONGRESS BLOCK ENwRAPPED.
About haii-past eight O'Clock Congress Block,
q massive granite building on Congress street,
caught fire and all efforts to save 1t were futile.
The flames communicated from the rear OF Con-
gress Block TO the brick part OF the old Post once
building, facing in HndalI street, early this
morning, when there were fears that the
POST oFpIcE BUILDING WOULD suoouxB
to the fiery element. Every lettor and paper In
the entire establishment all the furniture. mail
bags and in fact, all the valuable movable property
in the mailing department., were conveyed In
teams to the Custom House for safe keeping.
| Nothing was disturbed In the stamp and money
order departments. AS soon as the flames entered
through almost the entire third story, which is
occupied by oflces and by the following parties =:
No. 7, N. p. Lowering; No 10, Abel Abbott; No. 10,
New York Fire Insurance Company; No. IL n. G.
Il. Candage; No. 21, J. s. Abbott; No. 27, Charles
Cowley and Henshaw & Brothers, stock auctioncers
and brokers. Postmaster Burt's private ONCE
was destroyed, but everything OF value was
removed to the Custom House. In addition
to the Offices the foreign and newspaper
departments were consumed by halfpast ten.
Meanwhile the fiery monster was continuing Its
work on Congress street, and attacked the five
story brick building the corner OF Water street.
occupied in the upper story by Bar & Stephens,
printers; third story by G. E. Meacham, and the
lower stories by Andrews & Robinson and j.
Richardson & Son. The brick block on Congress
street, next to Congress Block numbered "a and
90 was next attacked and soon laid low, as was
also the famous Monks building at the foot of Con-
gress square.
THE sUBrREAsUeY or THE UNITED STATES,
| located In the structure as the Post o1lce,
| was among the institutions ruined, but not de-
! stroyed. The roof was entirely burned Of, and
also the inside cleaned out; but It's immense valu
| able contents werc safely removed to the Custom
| House. While the Post once was fairly encased
with lurid name from the bottom to the top, while
| back in the rear OF Congress square the largo
buildings that front the east side of Devonshirc
| were bursting out with iorked flames. the writer
met Chier Damrell on State street, near
the old State House, and tho features
OF his blackened, burned and haggard face could
be read as in book the great anxiety that was
stirring his very soul.
"One word, Captain" said the reporter 'for
Gods sake, what OF the prospect ?"
Shaking his head, and with gesture that told
more than words,
.BAD BADi BADi!
God help burning Boston, said he, and on he went
through dense volume Of smoke to where a corps
OF his nearly sufrocated and famished men were
! struggling with the Gend. At this time the names
were working rapidly to windward and back into
Congress street.
pains. One sturdy fellow, VINO had nev0 read
Hoods poems, threw a large mirror ont OF win
dow on Bedford street and came down stairs on
dead run with a feather bed behind him. Another
fellow, with whom l conversed, said his wife had
spraned her ankle, and added, 81 don't care much
about that, though-not half so much as
she does; the ankle can be cured by
DOCTOR but there isn't surgeon in all
the town can bring me back my black an TAM
He was burned to death, sir recklessly and
through carelessness I'D rather have given a dol
| lar than had 1t happen.n
| Some people looked upon the affair as brilliant
pyrotechnic display when 1t first broke out, but
afterwards, when ITS rapid spread endangered
their own property their
LAUGHTER WAS CHANGED 10 CRIES,
and there was great weeping and gnashing of
teeth. The teamster, Alley, whose arrest for the
murder and chopplng to pieces OF Abijah Ellis has
been made known to the public, heard OF the fire
in his lonely cell at the city prison. and bewaied
his captivity, '.because," he said, ~ should have
such mighty good chance to clear half thousand
dollars, II only had my team" Speaking OF team.
stcrs, by the way it may be wen to repeat
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