Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-11-22


that over 800 fremen were on duty Wedne-
day night, and seven steamers and eight Oh
ten hydrant streams were playingall night
\ glas--door without pane broken or a
panel burned, wa, swinging among the
ruins ola burned block next morning.
\ Young lady, the mother of child two
years ofage. lately stored all Of the little
one, clothing, with her wedding presents,
in the safe Of her husbands store, on MIX
street, and all were destroyed by the FIRE.
Tho only property saved for one of the
dry goods firms was $40 900 worth Of lace-
carried ont Of the store by two of the shop
girls.
Harvard College owned good deal Of
property in the burned district. and it,
financial office was burned, but the books
were saved
one of the bank president. had the CON
tents of the bank vaults, over eleven mil
lions. removed to his HOUSE and guarded by
police
The Boston College and Methodist rhe1-
logical Seminary is considerable loser By
the FIRE. which has destroyed stores and
warehouse, belonging to the Isaac Rich
property, which was beluea,hed to these
institutions The bequest amounted to
about q million dollars, but it i, not proba-
bic more than quarter Of this is lost
Perhaps the enhanced value Of the real es-
tate may make the loss quite small Tufts
College suffers small loss, say 5000.
For the second time in history, the Old
South Church was used a. barracks for
troops, but this time by friends instead of
enemies. The marines were quartered there
the night after the fire
SIX clerks Of Anderson. Heath i Co. had
a narrow escape They were employed
clearing up the basement Saturday evening,
as usual, when some one went out and
ocked the door When the flames burst
into the upper stories they rushed for the
door, which, to their terror, they found it
locked Shouting and pounding for help
were vain, and the door resisted their efforts
to break it down Proyidentially the FIRE
men burs; i, open, when the clerk, rushed
out.
A heavy firm in Pearl street would have
lost all their papers but for the fact that the
book-koepor. Who was to he gone over sun
day from the city. left hi~ key, with a ~ln
Of one Of the partner-
When the FIRE got into the rear of some of
the large boot and shoe houses on the west |
side Of Pearl street, and there was not the
slightest hope of saving the stock the crowd |
rushed in broke open boxes and cases. and |
helped themselves indiscriminatey to shoes
md boots. No one objected, and the gene
al impression seemed to be that the stock
lai thus better be distributed for private
Use than utterly destroyed The articles
we're carried on by the box and the armful
nd many sat down on the curbstones and
Ionned new leather on the spot.
The Boston fire department has twenty
wo steam engines. This number was in
reased to eighty during the great fire, it j.,
aid, by the departments ofother towns and
tiles
1t is now though, but five men were
lied at the great fire nine are injured
nd four missing.
After the fire in Boston, eiuders. pieces of
ewspapers, bills, dry goods, etc, were
,und in bingham and adjoining towns, and
zen as far as West Scituate-twenty miles
ON Boston. Pieces of charred goods, silks
nd woolens, newspapers, bills, etc, were
'und in tho roads and fields, and at one
me on Saturday night, looking from South
ingbam toward Boston, the air seemed full
cinders. At West Scituate a government
md was found, the edges of which had
zen burned, and in the adjoining town of
ingham fragment of $40 bill was
licked up, leaves of books, etc The light
the oonAagration was seen ninety miles t
at sea, and as far as New London south '
ard, and Portsmouth northward. e