Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-31
THE FIERY DEMON.
BOSTON VISITED BIZ ANOTHER CON
FLAGRATION.
Origin and Progress Of the Fire in II
Pathway Of Destruction.
Great Excitement in the City in Con.
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BOSTON scourgcd by a Third Fire.

BosroN. May 80. "A heavy fire is raging
i'm the business portion of the city.
| LATER-The fire has reached Washing
| ton street. 1890, -, =
LATER, 9:S5 o'clock ANA 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 oft being checked. Il
Boston, May 30.-The fire broke outs
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. S'G
The principal direction of the fire is now
towards Harrison. sbr,gsE b-1~ffa4
When discovered the fire was in the up
per floor of Haley, Morse & 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, distance of two hundred feet, were
a mass of glowing flames. The fire work
ed back into the stable Of Geo. T. Bonney,
on Burnstead Place, which runs out of
Boylston street, hear Washington street,
and destroyed it. sraq4a Fr3as 20 sagfR h
elr Gallery Crushed by Failing wallis
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
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spread to another great building adjacent,
and that was also destroyed, including
numbers 4O3, 4o5 and 400, Washington
street. The Premises of Rhodes, Rip
ley & Co.. clothing; j.. M. BrOckett,
pianos; Geo. Foster, hats; F.. +. Libby,
dry goods and Geo. f. 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.
Hotel, G. r. Richards proprietor, No. Ais
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 large four
story stone front building occupied by
Keller's billiard rooms, No. 419; Geo,
Thomson & CO., tailors, No. 42f, Sand
Montgomery & 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 |
being forced back, giving the firemen more
room to work. WA
II 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. It'll
being decoration day, all insurance Offices
were closed, but are now being opened on
intelligence of the confagratiOn. 4
The Fire Under Control. 5sf3 |
Boston, May 3O-11 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. /
DamrelI, Chief of the Fire Department,
expresses his confidence that the fire will
speedily be stopped.
The loss already amounts to several mil |
lions of dollars.
The fire is continuing its course in
southerly direction from the place of its
origin.
Extent Of the Damages Unknown.
LATEST.
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
saved nearly all its wardrobes. /
Two persons were killed by falling walls.
Some OF the Sufferers. /
Among the firms and individuals who |
were burnt out on Essex street, are Benja- |
min S. Rome & Co., boots and shoes, loss
SCI, 600, insurance $4,000; Hawley, Folsom |
d Martin, furnishing goods, loss Sis, 900, |
fully insured; Alberton T. Brown & Co,
loss $50. 600 insurance $40 600. Georno Il j