Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-04
BOSTON VISITED BY ANOTHER CON.
FLAGRATION.
Origin and Progress Of the Fire i'm Il,
Pathway Of Destruction.
After Raging Three Hours II is Gotten
Under Control.
Great Excitement i'm the City in Con-
sequence.
Boston scourged by "a Third Fire.

Boston, May 3O.-A heavy fire is raging
in the business portion of the city.
LATER-The fire has reached Washing
ton street.
LATER, 9:35 o'clock A. MA fire broke
out at eight o'clock this morning and is
now raging on both sides of Washington
street. near Boylston and Essex streets.
The Globe Theatre is destroyed. a north
west wind was blowing.
LATER-The fire is still progressing and
no signs of it being checked.
BOSTON, May 30.-The fire broke out at
half-past eight, in the upper part of Haley,
Morse & Co.'s large furniture warehouse,
No. All Washington street, and is spread
ing with fearful rapidity, the wind being
strong from the northwest.
The principal direction of the fire is now
towards Harrison.
When discovered the fire was in the up
per floor of Haley, Morse d Co.'s ware
house, among the workshops, and the
flames were issuing from the roof. Piles
of light material, packed away, were like
so much finder, and before the alarm could
be given, great volumes of flame were
rolling up fifty feet into the air, and clouds
of smoke were rising. The heat generated
was intense, and in twenty minutes the
upper stories of the building from front to
rear, a distance of two hundred feet, were
a mass of glowing flames. The fire work
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on Burnstead Place, which runs out of
Boylston street, near Washington street,
and destroyed it.
Gallery Crushed by Falling Walls.
Eventually the walls of the immense
edifice fell and crushed to atoms the eX-
tensive gallery of Jourdain, with all the
stores beneath it. The opposite corner
of Fayette caught, and the flames soon
spread to another great building adjacent,
and that was also destroyed, including
numbers 403, 405 and 400, Washington
street. The Premises of Rhodes, Rip
ley q Co., clothing; j. NJ. Brockett,
pianos; Geo. Foster, hats; f. +. Libby,
dry goods, and Geo. +. White, millinery,
were all destroyed. The flames have cross
ed Washington street. Chickering's splen-
did granite building, with its immense
front, and the Globe Theatre, are in ruins.
The fire has also caught the steeple of the
Presbyterian church, corner of Beach
street and Harrison avenue, and the spire
is in mass of flames.
Property Destroyed.
The fire soon attacked the International
Hotel, G. r. Richards proprietor, No. 4l5
Washington street, and it fell an easy
prey to the devouring element. The sway
of the monster was irresistible and next to
the wall of its victim was q large four
story stone front building occupied by
Thomson & Co., tailors, No. 42l, and
Montgomery d Co., confectionery store,
No. 423. The fire on Beach street, in the
Presbyterian Church has been eXtinguish-
ed. The military has been called out and
crowds in the vicinity of the fire are
| being forced back, giving the firemen more
room to work.
u o'CLoCK.-The fire is believed to be
| fully under control. The widest excite
ment exists throughout the city and thou-
sands of extras are being circulated. 1t
| being decoration day, all Insurance offices
We're closed, but are now being opened on
! intelligence of the conflagration.
The Fire Under Control.
! BOSTON, May 30-ll A. M.-The rear of
| Chauncey street is threatened, both from
Haywood Place and Essex street, and the
entire square bounded by those streets and
| Washington street, which is not already
destroyed, is being abandoned by its occu-
| pants.
Damrell Chief of the Fire Department,
| expresses his confidence that the fire will
speedily be stopped.
The loss already amounts to several mill
| lions of dollars. ...
The fire is continuing its course in a
| southerly direction from the place of its
origin.
Extent of the Damages UnIsmOwn.
LATEST .I. .
1t is impossible to give at once all the
! losses, or even the names of the losers by
the fire to-day, but it can be said that from
Avery street TO Boyleston street, on the
west side of Washington street, is nearly
| or quite destroyed. On the other side,
from Hayward Place to Essex street, little
is left to show what existed there at eight
O'clock this morning. The Globe Theatre
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