Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-21
THE FIRE FIEND.
Terrible Conflagration in
Boston.
One Hundred Acres in the Heart
Of the City Destroyed.

Of the City Destroyed.
Loss Upward Of One Hundred Million
Dollars.
Thrilling Details OF the ConHa-
grafton.
The calamity that befell the city of Chica-
| 90 thirteen months ago has been repeated
| in Boston with almost fearful exactness.
| The following dispatches tell the terrible
story of ruin and devastation:
| BosToS, Nov. "a fire broke out this
| evening in one of the large dry goods ware
| houses on Sumner street, where a. large num-
| Der of stores have been burned, with their
| contents. It spread on Sumner street, sweep
| ing in its course several large buildings oc-
| cupied by dry goods, leather and other
| wholesale commission merchants. Thence
| ing all before it. The efforts of the splendid
| fire department appeared to be useless, for
| the conhagration kept on
ITS REMoRsELEss WAY,
as it did in Chicago, reaching Broad street, a
quarter of q mile from whence it commenced.
| It was soon raging among the wooden build
| ings which extend for mile on the edge of
| the harbor toward South Boston, including
| coal-yards, , ood-yards, grain-stores, black
| smith-shops, carpenter-shops, and such tin
der-iike material. It will probably soon
reach the gas-works, but the most herculean
| efforts are making to prevent the flames
| f ON reaching it.
The fire has spread toward State street,
| and has swept to Kilby and Milk streets, the
| magnificent granite buildings on Federal,
Franklin and Water streets seeming to offer
| no impediment to the flames. Immense
| bodies of water being thrown on the
| erless to conquer the flames where they are
| raging.
The great granite dry goods house Of
| Beebe i Co., and other equally heavy mer
chants have succumbed to the flames.
Nearly all the agencies and store houses of
| the various cotton mills and print works of
Lowell and Lawrence have been burned, ,
| with immense stocks of goods, alone worth
| MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
In Kilby street tLe buildings were of old
fashioned, heavy granite construction, most
| ly occupied by the hardware trade, whose
| losses are simply immense.
AT the foot of Sumner street, and in Kings
| ton, High, and Purchase streets, and on
| Broad street, quite large number of dwell
| ings have been burned, the inhabitants
BARELY ESCAPING WITH THEIR LIVES.
| Their household goods are nearly all de-
IL,
The FIRE departments of Cambridge, somer-
Vile, Charlestown, Chelsea, Watertown,
Waltham, Brooklyn, Medford, Maiden,
Lynn, and Salem are all on duty, doing her
and Mayor CASTOR have telegraphed to
| Worcester, Providence, Taunton, Fall River,
and other places having steam fire engines,
| for help. The different railroads have
| sent
SPECIAL LOCOMOTIVES
| gines. The tugs in the harbor and several
| steamships are busily engaged in towing
| vessels into the harbor and anchoring them
| in safety from the flames.
THE WHOLE POPULATION OF THE CITY
has turned out, for the general alarm has
been sounded several times, and is never
| sounded here unless there is
| DIRE NEED OF HELP.
| The scene is one of the grandest that can
| be conceived, the territory which is being
| devastated by the flames being level pla-
| teau, extending from the Custom-House, at
the foot of State street, to Dover street
bridge, embracing nearly two miles in ex-
| tent, the main portion of which is now a
sERrHING HE'LL OF FLAME,
| licking up the fortunes of thousands of our
| best citizens, who have struggled hard all
their lives to accumulate a competence. The
flames can be seen distance of fifty miles
| out in Massachusetts Bay, and by their Zig ht
| every island and vessel in the harbor can be
distinctly seen.
Up to the present writing the ravages OF
the devouring element are confined mainly
| to business portions of the city, but it seems
| inevitable that the flames will extend to To-
calities occupied as dwelling places. The
streets are crowded with vehicles conveying
away from the track OF the hre-demon the
| effects of the unfortunates who are every
moment expecting that their homesteads
will be invaded. To make any estimate ol
| losses at this moment would be
SIMPLY PREPosTERoUs,
| as even now millions worth of property
have been destroyed. At midnight the
flames were still raging uncontrolled, threat
ening to involve the whole city in one COM
mon ruin.
BosroN, Nov. 10, 1870 a. m.-There is nc
abatement in the violence of the conhagra-
ion. The fire is sweeping everything be-
fore it, stone and iron appearing to offer nc
impediment to its progress. The Transcript
building and the Pilot building, both o.
| granite. are gone, and the probability now il
that the Journal and Herald buildings viii
| be destroyed. The involved in flames
at present overs fully mile and hal
square.
S:1O q. m.-Lurid columns of flame ant
smoke, detonations caused from blowl, VI
buildings, and the crushing and falling o
| walls makes the scene
. GRAND AND TERRIFIC.
The whole of Pearl street is in ruins. Thu
heat so intense that the fremen canno
|
raging with fearful effect. Building aetel
building is being blown up, with the onl!
| apparent effect of increasing the terrible
, volume of fame. Every newspaper office il
! the city except one has been destroyed. Th
old Safe House, the Postofice and the "Olt
South Church." dear to all Bostonians, hav
also been swept away.
BosroN, Nov. 10-l2 m.-The district GOV
} cred by the FIRE may be said to include tn
largest part of that improvement of Bostol
| which has been made necessary by the re,
. cent development of the commerce of tn
city. The streets which have been thus ia
destroyed include all the new streets devote
to the wholesale and jobbing dry goods trade
the boot and shoe trade, and most of thos
, devoted to the wool business. With fey
devoted to: the wool business. With fey
. exceptions, the warehouses destroyed ar
those occupied by jebbers and wholesal
: dealers, there being scarcely a retail store i
, the (at presently burnt district, and very fe,
/ dwelling houses. None of the latter, indeed
A except some tenement houses near the waite
. line, at the eastern end of Summer stree