Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-11-13

bred acres, and is certainly thret
quarters of a mile o way and half
mile the other 10 the water. 1t ha.
swept out hundreds of families. Tit
blocks below Franklin and Mill
streets are burning toward Washing
ton, threatening the Transcript of
fee and the Old South Church, and il
within a block of the Globe anC
journal offices. On DevOnshire street
it is rapidly approaching the new
post Office building.
The streets are crowded with
myriads of horses, mel and children,
laden with household goods, and cry.
ing bitterly. Men are carrying books,
papers and goods from their bushes:
offices. Wagons are driven as neal
the fire as safety will permit, and Ia
den with goods, and even the street
cars are pressed into this service.
The authorities have telegraphed to
Providence Salem, Lynn, Lowell,
Lawrence, Portsmouth, Worcester,
Springfield and even Portland for
fire ST steamers and other assistance. 1t
is feared if the flames eros Milk
street that the entire business portion
of the city will he destroyed.
Boston, November 10 A. NJ
The fire, WHICH commenced at half
past eve last night, continues its
devastation and is DOW working its
way through a large block between
Devonshire and Congress streets,
nsrth of Water street. Tine fire first
broke out in the rear end of a large
five story granite building, 81, 50 and
81 Summer street, directly OF the cor
ner of Kingston street. This build
ing was surmOunted with a high
mansard roof, overlapping all thu
other buildings in that immediate
vicinity. Directly as the flames be-
gan to spread through the story be-
meath this roof, and before an engine
or hose cant was on the ground, great
volumes OF flames suddenly burst out
from the real of the lower stories of
the building, and in less than twenty
minutes the whole broad face, extend
ing fully one hundred feet along
Kingston street, was onc sheet of
flame, as was also at the same time
the Summer street front, the heat be
ing so intense as to force the firemen
from that immediate vicinity.
BY this time a strong wind had
sprung up, the flames began to sweep
over Kingston and Summer streets,
and despite the Gxertlons Of the fire.
men In every branch of the depart
nent, the fire was communicated to
the buildings on the opposite corner
of Kingston aud Summer streets, as
well as to a great block on the corner
of Summer and Otis streets, and in
less than half an hour thereafter, the
flames were bursting out of the roofs
and all upand down the brad side of
these immense buildings. By this
time the wind had increased to nearly
q gale, and the flames having the en-
tire mastery of everything, swept
from story TO story, from roof TO roof,
from block to block, and from corner
to corner, driving the fremen from
every vantage ground they would Sc
cure, and rendering all their exertions
useless and futile. Wherever the
flames reached they rapidly consumed
Of 6 combustib'e charac-
ter. The large block on the corner
of Summer aud Kingston streets, in
which the fire first started, was oo-
cupied On the first and upper floors
by Tibbits, Baldwin & DAVIS, dry
goods jobbers; A. K. Young & Co.
occupied the third and fourth stories
a mandatory for STAYS and cor
sets, giving employment to about two
hundred meny the SECOND floor was
occupied by Damon, Temple & Co.,
furnishing goods, etc. NOtwithstand-
ing this great building was in an al
most Incredible short space of time
to the ground, its destruction
had not progressed far before the
flames and sparks which arose from
it had lodged upon all the buildings
round about; thus the fire spread
instantly in three directions
first TO the adjoining block on Sum
mer street, then acFOss GUNNER street
to the opposite block and then across
street. In the first named
direction the adjoining buildings,
occupied by Leland & WheelOck,
gents furnishing goods, and Sawyer,
Mansfield & Co., importers of dry
The next are: o. b. North
A Son. hats, caps and fur; Farley,
Amsdne & Co, dry goods jObhers, and
Rhodes & Ripley, clothing. The lat
ter firm owned the building. The
structure opposite the starting point
was of granite, four stories and a half
high, occupied largely by M~ayfiyn,
Mullen & Elms, dealers in trimmings,
who used the entire lower floor;
Harding, Bros, A Co., and Glide,
Carter & Co. occupied the upper floor.
From this building across the square
diagonaIly was a stone block, occu-
pied by Smith, Rich & Carter and
George NJ. GlaZier, dealers in cOrsets,
skirts and knit goods. In the corner
of Otis and Summer streets stood the
Everett block, all imposing granite
STRUCTURE, owned by the Everett es-
tate. 1t included Nos. %, 81, SIS, SIS,
go, 60 and 81 Summer street, Gccapied
by d. Lyons & Co., Neil, Bro. 4
Dreyfus, Phillips & Shuman, e. G.
King & Co, and Mari Brothers, deal
eFs in clothing, furnishing goods,
trimmings, &c The upper floors
were used mostly az Offices and Occu-
pied by various parties.
Now the fire began to creep steadily up
both sides of Summer Street, crawling
along from roofto roof opposite the Ey-
erett block. The buildings as they were
engulfed in rapid succession were as
Brickswell front, occupied by
A. Folsom & Sons, floor cloth anu oil
cloth; George H. Butler, hair goods and
Eugene Chaplin, commission merchant.
The granite block of Morse. Hammond
Co.. hosiery EEd gloves; Stiles, Beale
Homer wholesale clothing; S. KlOns
Co., hats, caps and furs; StruckeF
Brothers, hat and cap mandatory;
HYman & Arkslong, imported goods
and lIpen Ewing, Wise q Fuller, lin
s1s and white goods Rothwell, Luther,
& Co., GlOthingJ Mitchell, Green
4 Stevens, clothing. st tbs time, about
10 o'clock, the flames burst from the top
building on Arch street. A dozea
ioors removed from Summer street,
almost before the existence of the flames
n this quarter was known, thew had
Ipread down through the building and
we're bursting In a perfect torrent from