The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-11-11

and the flames were not again cheated OF
their prey.
The fire was now in Federal street, and
the wool-houses were going like oil facto-
ries. They could never have been attacked
at more dangerous time, as they were
crammed from cellar to garnet. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth were in hand
that might have been delivered to customers
had it not been for the horse disease. In
one store alone there were hundred
thousand dollars worth of woods stored
which were awaiting delivery. Minor, Beal
& Hackett had their stores packed full,
being their winters stock, three hours be-
fore the fire enyeloped it all. March
Brothers & Pierce had just put their winter
goods in the cellar and sent their summer
goo up stairs to be madeup.
The paper houses came next, and with
them went the majority of the large deal
ers. 1t had been hoped that the fire could
be stopped short of Franklin street, but
the stores there were as vulnerable as on
others. The Freedman's National Bank
went at ten o'clock, and an hour later the
National Bank of North America was in
as bad condition.
The fire swept in a northeasterly direc-
ton from there, and cannot tell where it
will stop, write this with my hair singed
with flames, my face burning, and two or
three burns where the Goals have flown
down my back.
The following streets are completely de-
stroyed: Kilby, Liberty Square, Central,
Water, Lindall, Congress, High, Devon
shire, Franklin, Milk, Summer, Federal,
Pearl, and part of Bedford. A large num-
Der of families are homeless. Tt is heart
rendiug.
Boston, November 10-1:30 P. M
The fire is checked. State street saved !;
Broad street saved all north and east of
State street saved. The post-ofiice is dam
aged, and the backs of some few other
buildings on State street. A large portion
of the best business section of the city is in
ruins. The telegraph wires are all down
in the city.
SOME OF THE LOSSES.
r. II. Sampson, paper and Irvine; John
w. Bond, wool; B. II. Thayer & Co., pa
per manufacturers; II. @. Judd & Co.,
wool; S. S. Arnold, paper and Irvine; Rog-
ers & Co., crockery; Nichols, Palmer &
Dupee, wool; Thomas II. Tyler, Hollo-
ware & Coburn, wool; Frye, Phipps q Co.,
hardware; Rowland, Luce & Co., wool;
Sabine& Page, wool; G. E. Hopgood & Co.;
Which, Griffith & Co., J. Tucker & Co.,
corner High street; Bucking & Troon;
Akeans & Co. agents Fletcher Manufacture
ing Company; G. Ford, grocer;
Wright, Goodwin K Delano, wool; Cham
berlain Brothers, wool; N. w. Clapp
& Co. F.; William hatcher & Co., crueible
agents Lewis Barr, Pennsylvania Steel
Works; James Woodman, commission
Scoyllle Manufacturing Company William
lesson & Co., English steel /; Hussey,
Willis & Co., steel; Otis Pearce, j. & j. Il.
Lee, Il. Christian & Co., hosiery and gloves;
John b. Babcock & Darlington, commission
merchants G. B. Grunnell, fu1s and calf
skins George Hunt, commission; Boone,
Cowell & Co., clothers' trimmings; Butler,
johnson & Co., hardware Phillips, Shu-
man & Co., Hope Thread Company
Milliken, Brophy & Co., j. Saxon &
Co., agents Sock-Print Works; Atlantic
Cotton Mills, --- Gray, agent: Davis &
Frost, Henry c. Davis. Henry Poor & Son,
hides and leather; E. W. Corey & Co.,
leather; Jas. A. Roberts, hides and leather;
N. W. Rice & Co., leather; Chas. Marsh &
Co., leather; B. G. Goardnean d Co., hides
and leather; Nichols 4 Dollin, Barnard
Davy lover Main, Mullen & Elms), John
H. Rogers. Thomas Hall, Moore, Hatch
& Co., mems furnishing goods; Green
Brothers az o., dress goods; Currant & Co.,
d. Lyons & Co., mems furnishing goods;
Nichols & Dalton, leather; Harding, Gray &
Deway, wool; A. L. White & Co., leather
W. B. Spencer & Co., hides and leather
G. L. Barrett, hides and leather; D. SIAM
ford, WOOL broker; j. 0. Stafford q. Co.,
hides and leather; Gruer, White & Co.,
leather; j. & H. Kosform, hides and
leather E. II. Phillips, oil store; AL
bert Thompson & Co., hides and leather
johnson, Eaton & Brockett hides and
leather; Babcoek & Partridge, straw goods;
W. P. Brigham & Co., gloves and hosiery:
julius Beal & Horner, clothing; Morse,
Hammond & Co., hosiery, gloves, and
handkerchiefs; II. d. Benter, hair goods;
Eugene Chaplin, trimmings; A. Folsom &
Sons, clothing and oil-cloths d. Lyons &
Co.; Mar Brothers, furnishing goods
Thomas Kolby & Co., dry goods; Hawley,
Folsom & Martin, mems furnishing goods !;
Minor, Beal & Hackett, mems and boys
clothing; Merch Brothers, Pierce &
Co., mems furnishing goods; Simons,
Brother & Co.; D. NJ. Hodgen, cloth
ing; Boston Collar Company Homer &
Werth, curried leather; Flant & Clatur, in
ner soles; Pear & Co., kid leather; G. A..
Hathaway & Co., High street, oil and ce.
ment; Thomas E. Proctor, leather; Edward
Spalding & Bennstead, hides and leather;
Davis, Bro. & Co., leather; Lockett, Mitch
ell & Co., woollens; Hoyt, Sprague q Co.,
commission; Perry, Cook q Tower, dry
goods; Proger, Goett & Co., clothing; B.
L. Solomon K Sons, Jewell & Busy,
woollens; Lewis & Cohen, carpet
manufacturers e. B. Verely &
Son, felt goods; W. d. Strong Il
Co., commission merchants; Flannel &
Co., woollens II. Hermann & Co., COM
mission merchants Laiey, Summer & Co.,
clothiers and tailors Hughton & Perkins,
Sawyer & Co., Woods & Co., A. T. Stewart
& Co., Parker, Wilder & Co., Anderson e
Co., Gross Daniels, Tibbetts, Baldwin &
David, Jewett Richardson, George A.
Glosier, Mablin, Mellen & Ellis, Harrirg
Brothers & Co., Bowen, Moore & Co., G.
l.. Ide, Carter & Co., Wheelwright & Co.,
Bowen & Boman, dry goods; Leland,
Wheelock & Co., Sawyer, Morfield & Co..
Brainard Davis, Mellen & Glennis, John
P. Rogers, Thomas Hall, Hatch & Co..
mems furnishing goods; Green, Brother &
Co., dress goods Conant & Co., ID. L.
Touse d Co., mems furnishing goods !;
Rogers & Co.. Barry & Brothers. jackson.