Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-21

dows IL front of the fancy goods store
Hawley, Folsom q Martin. The fire
spread to each side, enveloping the
stores of Thos. Kelley and Co., ID.
NJ. Hogden, clothing, March Bros,
Peirce and Co., Mercer, Beal and Hack,
all of which were quickly blazing. At
Block was a sheet of flame, sending
high into the air column of fire,
smoke and lurid sparks. This gained
perfect control of the Everett Block.
The fire stretched its arms across mar
row Arch street, and moved rapidly to-
wards Washington street, taking in the
establishments of Geo. II. Lane, Brett
& Co., Wholesale clothing, and Messen-
ger & Co., dry goods Edgertou & Gill
mans dining-rooms Chaifee & Whit
ney, sewing silk ; Lee, Tweedy & Co.,
dry goods Lewis, Brown & Co.,
gloves Moreau q Co., commission
merchants Seavey, Foster & Bowman,
agents of Canton silk mills Kittle &
Jones, commission merchants Br1ce,
Task & Co., thread and trimmings !;
Porter Bros, commission merchants :;
Nicholas Il Sons, imitation hair. AT
the opposite end of Summer street,
near the junction of Bedford street
Among the buildings destroyed were
the following: Heyer Bros, import
ers of fancy goods; Gilbert, Loveioy
& Co., dealer in woolens, No. 90 John
Cotter, hosiery, gloves, ETC., No. 100.
Winthrop Square, the very centre of
the great wholesale trade of the city,
embracing some of the most costly mer
camille buildings ever erected in this
country, and occupied by such great
firms as Jas. NJ. Beele and Co., Stew
art and Co., Anderson, Heath and Co.,
and forty or fifty others, was before
10 o'clock, one mass of ruins.
On Kingston street was No. IA, occu-
pied by J. A. Hatch and Co., commits
sion merchants, the next was Nos. 16
and Is, occupied by Clark and Blod-
gett. commission merchants, and Mellen
and Goodwin. The other buildings on
Kingston street were dwelling houses,
and were all destroyed.
About eleven o'clock the scene in
Lincoln, Essex, South Federal, and
other streets in that immediate neigh
borhood, was one of the saddest of the
night. Hundreds of men, women and
children were hurrying along laden
with every variety of household goods.
Behind them roaring flames We're lap
ping up their houses before they could
get half or even quarter Of their
goods into the steeet. The fire ex-
tended on both sides of Lincoln street
and the Russia wharf. All the build
ings, mostly used by rag, paper and
Junk merchants, were destroyed. There
were vessels lying at this wharf. At
the Robbins wharf a schooner was de-
stroyed, as were the coal sheds and
large quantity of lumber on the pier.
The wharf of the Hartford ana Erie
Railroad was burned, and the passen-
ger station of the corporation on Broad
street, at the foot of Summer street,
was destroyed.
A visit to
SUMMER STREET
showed the fire to have advanced on
the South'Side as far west as Hovey's
dry goods store, the upper portion of
which building was then on fire. The
wind had moderated some, but the fire
seemed to be fast taking its way toward
Washington street. III which was the
establishments of Stearns and Co,
Walker and Co, Wa. r. Storms and
Co., THERE, Crump and Co., and
large number Of firms doing business
in the upper portions of buildings,
wauld be SWEET away. The fire appears
to be making to therear of these build
ings. if not checked. The extensive
place of Jordon, Mash and Co, in Cen
trail Court, and extending to Washing
ton street, stands in imminent danger
of destruction
After repeated solicitations on the
part of business men, owners of real
estate and others, Chief Engineer
Damrell, just before 2 O'Clock, gave
orders to rope off the streets leading
into Milk street, preparatory to blow
ing up buildings on the south side of
that street.
A body of United States marines
from the navy yard marched up Wash
ington street about 3 o'clock and ten
dered their services on police duty,
which were Immediately accepted.
BLOWING UP BUILDINGS.
The report of buildings blown up, in
dicating that gunpowder was being
used to stop the fire, was heard ut live
minutes past three o'clock, and was
most welcome sound, for 1T betokened
n fearless. honest, radical effort to save
Boston from Chicago's fate. Three
discharges were made in block on
Devonshire street, and these threw the
buildings partially down, but without
apparent benefit, for the flames Jumped
over the gap almost instantly. The
building was close to the fire, and un-
less blocks more distant are speedily
Frustrated the effect will of course be