The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-11-14

flames, tapping up their houses before
they could get half or quarter of their
goods into the street. The fire exten-
ded on both sides of Lincoln street.
On Russia wharf all the buildings,
| mostly used by rag, paper and junk
merchants, were destroyed. There
were no vessels lying at this wharf.
AT Z. Robins wharf schooner was
destroyed, as were coal sheds and a
large quantity of lumber on the pier.
The wharf of the Hartford and Erie
Railroad Company was burned, and
the passenger station of the corpora
ton on Broad street, at the foot of
Summer street, was destroyed.
Here follows a list of the losses,
which would occupy over column
in our paper set in solid type. The
aggregate loss is estimated at $780,
100000.
/ There were also many other firms
doing business of more or less impor-
| tance, most of these will perish, either
troyed are the National Bank of North
America. No. 75 Franklin street, and
the Natiodal Revere Bank, "a Franklin
street. ise
At two O'Clock this morning the
chances were that the Continental Ma
tional Bank, No. 81 Chauncey street.
and the Emigrant Savings Bank, II
/ Franklin street, would also succumb
to the flames A hasty visit to the
! neighborhood of the Southern boun-
dairy revealed the fact that only the
ends of Kingston, Columbia and Lin
! OF, hol oil
making progress toward Broad to the
! water front. .-f5e5 f3
A visit to Summer street showed
the fire to have advanced on the south
side, and was fast eating its way
to Washington street.
III A meeting of the citizens was held
in the Mayors parlors, in City Hall,
where it was determined to use gun
powder in blowing up houses, so as
to check the progress of the flames,
but without avail. a.5Ffl
At four O'Clock this morning the
fire had extended from Washington
street on the west to the wharyes on
the east, and from Milk, street on the
\ north to the Hartford and Erie Rail-
WAY bridge on the south.
The merchants on Oliver street es-
sayed to move their goods, but were
overtaken by the flames and had to
leave them. itG s..st ii
l.. 5;12 A. MAJ this hour the pro-
gress of the flames southwark had
been Stacked, and also in eat meas
ure toward the southeast. 1t ran
along Broad street to India, taking all
infermediafe wharves and destroying
a few5vessels. The fire worked around
the new post-office building and
reacEed the northerly side of Water
street. There is where the greatest
damage was done, as the boot and
shoe and hide and leather business is
/ carried on in the section. go
Il All the residences of Fort Hill sec
tion, so-called, including Gridley,
High and Broad streets, have been
/. destroyed, rendering hundreds, of fam
lilies homeless and destitute. 9is
Both Washington and Summer
4 streets are filled with bricks, mortar,
etc., to the depth of several feet por-
tion of the front of Trinity church
alone standing to mark the location OF
that beautiful edifice. t-'a ass-l
The flames reached the corner OF
| Congress street, and then northward-
| ly they swept, all hope of stopping
them by water being shut off.
From the northerly corner of Fed
-eral and Milk, the fire then began its
course toward Kirby and Broadstreets
These were the northeasterly limits at
six, O'Clock. a Hsi;ez
BRA visit to the north end of the fire
at seven o'clock showed that it was
not progressing with anything like
its previous rapidity, having advanced
not more than a hundred feet. into
Congress street in an hour and a-haIf.
The same state of things was found to
exist on Milk street, aud in other quar-
ters the fire was making Roadway but
slowly. % 2 1919
lip. Mt is believed that the fire
is now so far under control that il will
not cross State street. By half-past
eleven o'clock the progress of the fire
toward the water in the direction of
Kilby and Central streets seemed to
be effectually stopped, and streams of
water were used in extinguishing the
flames among the ruins, which pre-
sent the appearance of utter devasta-
ton. 7ssis
| On eKilby street the walls of the
blocks numbered from 23 to 30, inclu-
siye, are partially standing, but the
interiors are almost entirely ruined.
II. By the most strenuous exertions the
firemen succeeded in subduing the
flames about the Postoffice, SO that by
noon nothing was 9discernable in the
interior in the way of a blaze, and
istrong hopes are entertained that the
\ building may be saved, though the
various departments in the interior
lwiAdbe thoroughly drenched with
1 water. oe ia" .at52
the principal losers at this point are
III. Samuel, cigar maker; j. p p.
Dubue, agent for Burkhead's lager
beer; Reed s. Bowen, commission
merchants, and the Commercial Print
ing house, ali situated in the four-sto-
ry brick block on the south corner of
Central and Tlilby streets. On the
opposite corner is another four-story
brick building which is entirely de-
molished on the inside.
BosToN, Nov. 1O-2 p, M..-The
! fire is now believed to be under con-
| troll, The old South Church was not
burned. The Transcript Office is des-
troyed, and the Office of the Boston
POSTS badly damaged. Js.-.Isa.
BosroN, Nov. 10.-Later-The con-
! flagration was got under control at
about one O'Clock, having in a space
of fifteen hours destroyed hundreds
of the costliest and most substantial
| warehouses in the country, and tenn
porarily paralized three of the leading
merchantile interests-the shoe and
leather, wool and dry-goods trade. 1t
Is said there is not one wholesale
| 20, II sel,v off
The wool trade suffered in an equal
degree, and the drygoods business
l.houses are few and far between. The
Ninth Regiment, with detatchments
from other regiments, amounting to
| twelve hundred men, are on duty for
the protection of property and the
1 preservation of order. ~ i1b e.t
The pew Postoffice and Sub Treas
ury building was for long time iex-
posed to the fierce flames and smoke,
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