Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-11-13

all the windows in front OF the fancy
goods store OF Hawley, Folsom e. Mar
TIN. The fire spread to each side, envei-
toping the stores of Thomas Kelly q Co.
, ID. NJ. HOdgdon, clothing, March both
! ers, Pierce & Co., Miner, Beale & Hack
EFT. all of which were quickly blszlng.-
At ten O'Clock the whole roof of the Ev-
erett block was a sheet of flame. sending
high into the air a column OF fire, smoke
and lurid sparks. Having thu aimed
perfect control Of the Everett block, the
nre stretched its arms across narrow
} Arch street, and moved rapidly up
toward Washington street. taking a l the
establishments of George b. Lane, Brett
* Co, wholesale clothing; Messenger &,
20, dry goods; EgertOn & Gill ans
dining rooms; Chaffee & Whitney, sew
ing SILK Lee, Tweedy IL Co, dry goods;
Lewis Berren, & Co., kid gloves; Mare
aux u Co., commission merchants;
Reaveny, Foster q Bowman, agents of
the Canton silk mills; Kettle & Jones.
commission merchants; Price, Tack Il
Co., thread and trimmings; Porter
Brothers, commission merchants; Mich
olas IL Sons, imitation hair. At the OPP
posite end of Summer street. near the
junction of of Bedford street, among the
buildings destroyed we're The following:
Heyer Brothers,, importers of fancy
goods; Gilbert, LoYsioy & Co., woolens,
No. 81; John Gotten hosiery, gloves
&c, No. l02; Winthrop Square, the very
centre of the great wholesale trade of the
city, embracing some OF the most costly
mercantile buildings ever erected in
this country, and occupied by such great
firms as James NJ. Beebe &c Co., Stewart
& Co.. Anderson, Heath & Co., and forty
or nifty others were, before ten O'Clock,
one mass of ruins. On Kingston street,
No. IA, occupied by J. A. Hatch & Co.,
commission merchants; the next was
Nos. l6 and Is, occupied by Clark Il
BiOdgeJt, commission merchants, n
Mellen and Goodwin. The other build
ings on Kingston street were dwelling
houses and all were destroyed. About
IL O'clock the scene in Lincoln, Essex,
South, Federal and other streets in that
immediate neighborhoOd was one Of the
saddest sights of the night. Hundreds
of men, women and children were hur-
ryiug along laden with every variety of
household goods, behind them were the
rosring flames tapping up their houses,
before they could get half or a quarter OF
their goods into the street.
TIE fire extended on both sides of
Lincoln street. On Russis wharf all the
buildings, mostly used by rag, papers and
junk merchants, were destroyed. There
were no vessels lying at this wharf. At
L. Robbins wharf q schooner was de-
stroyed, 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 corporation. on Broad ST.,
at the foot OF Summer street, was de-
stroyed. |,
THE WHOLE THING IN A NUTSHELL.
., P. M.-The confagration was got
under control atabout one o'clock, haV-
ing in the space of fifteen hours destroy
ed hundreds of the costliest and most
substantial warehouses in the Country,
and temporarily p~aralyZing three of the ,
leading mercantile interests-the shoe
and leather, wool and dry goods trades. {
1t is said there is not n wholesale
leather establishment left in Boston. !
The wool trade suffered an equal degree /
and dry goods business houses are let ]
few and far between. The Ninth regi- I
ment. with detachments from other reg 7
iments amounting to twelve hundred /,
men, Is on duty for the protection of 4
property and the preservation of order.
The new post Office and sub treasury :
building was for a long time exposed to {
fierce flames and smoke, but was scarce {
" SCARED. This massive fire proof
saved the Boston Morning [
Post building, directly opposite, and a
greatly in preventing the fire v
from reaching State street. The Old [
South church also escaped, though sew (
eral times given up for lost. The costly :
beautiful Transcript building and
Courier & TrOtt's jewelTy establishment ),
On the opposite corner of Milk street, I
we're burned. The Eastern e press Office l
was saved though reported al n time b
IS burned. d
Two steam fire engines came from f
Portland with four hundred OF her lead 4
ng citizens, headed by Mayor Kings e
and proffeted every aid in their :
l0wer. H a
1880 P. M.-The FIRE was gh we'll I'M !;
Ter control q little after mid day, and !
las not extended since. Tho following y
ire the general boundaries OF the con1a- \
The whole length and both n
of Summer street, across Federal Il
nd nearly down to DOake's, wharf, and h
hence in nearly a direct line to Fork a
Hill, along Hamilton and Battery March 7
Kelley street as far as Lindell and o
street, and from Milk to Sum- Z
nor on Washington street. Within \
hese boundaries an area of nearly sew =
mtg acres, every building was coz 7
uIned. Chicago proffers by telegraph 0
ympathy and aid. o
Fire engines by special train from New
FORK arrived this morning. The loss is
low estimated at between eighty and
ninety million of dollars, and the insur-
nee at ten to twelve millions. A good e.
many persons were injuied and several e
Killed, ?
THE INSURANCE.. y