Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-22
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. 4 HOLOCAUST IN BOSTON, Twelve Workmen Burned
 To Death. A GREAT INcENDIARY FIRE. The Metropolitan Car Shops
 in Ruins.
POPE LEO's NOBLE GUARD
Presents The Cardinals
 Cap at Baltimore.

The old Manufacturers And Mechan fcss Institute In Ruins-Workmer Caught And SwallOW wed Up In Th. Flames-Fearfu1 Horrors In Th. Burning Building.
 BOSTON, June 21.-At 2:20 p. m. to-day an alarm of fire summoned the departmen | to the immense New England Manufacturer
 and Mechanics Institute building at the ex treme westerly end of Huntington avenu. 1 recently purchased by the Metropolitan hors' 1 railroad and used by the company as stor I age and repair shop. A second and genera alarm immediately followed. Within fiftee1
 minutes the entire building was mass o flames. The fire caught in the front righ corner on Huntington avenue directly under the paint shop and when the flames reached the oil and paint stored therein the latter spread over an immense space and proved speedy carrier of the destructive element There were many men inside when the fire broke out and all rushed for the rear win. dows. Most of them were helped out, but
 while rush was being made to one of the
 windows at which scorched and bleeding
 face was seen the poor fellow fell back into
 the seething torrent and was past all help.
 A colored man, name unknown, went back
 into the burning building to save property
 and was never seen to come out. Chester L.
 Hazeltine and E. L. Farrin had plenty of op-
 portunity to escape, but endeavored to pull
 out some of the cars and were most fright
 fully burned. The roof fell in soon after the
 second alarm was rung, and in five minutes
 the sides of the building nearest the roof
 fell. The iron work offered no resistance to
 the flames and the strong bands were warped
 and twisted. All that could be done
 was to play upon the burning
 walls and inside as there was no
 hope of saving anything. In less than two hours nothing remained but charred ruins and broken crumbling walls. While thou sands of spectators from neighboring roofs were viewing the magnificent spectacle hor- rible tragedy was being enacted within, all out of sight and unknown to the throng
 After the flames had been sufficiently extin- guished search was begun among the charred ruins for possible victims and up to D. m eight dead bodies had been removed, most of them burned beyond recognition. It is be- ieved there are at least four more bodies in the ruins. Inside the building were four hundred horse cars fully repaired, each worth $100. The repairs and refurnishing of the building amounted to about $50, 900 and with the building itself about $400, ,000 was lost. The burning building was one of the grandest sights seen in this city since the great fire of 1872. The size of the structure, together with the infammable nature of the material which entered its construction, was quick food for the flames. The firemen worked bravely, but against odds which no person could overcome. The wind blew freshly and added much to the power of the flames as they swept from one part of the building to the other.
 The experience of some of the one hundred workmen who were employed in the building was terrible. The spread of the flames when they finally burst forth was something al most incredible. Workmen on the opposite side of the building from the point of origin had almost great difficulty in making the escape as did those nearer the building. It carpenter shop that the most heartrending tragedy occurred. A poor fellow whose name is not yet known was driven out of the win dow of the second story by the flames. He was about to leap and had put one leg over the windowsill when the roof above fell in and pinned him fast where he was. No ladder company had ar rived and the crowd of one hundred or more outside were powerless to render assistance. The flames followed almost instantly and the imprisoned man was roasted in agony before the mortified eyes of his friends below. Two of his fellow workmen, John McNulty and J. F. Fallin, were terribly burned trying to scale the wall. His suferings were merciful ly short. The awful furnace of flame soon wrapped him about in fire and smoke and his last moments were shielded from the sight of the spectators. Not long after the wall itself gave way and nothing more was seen Mr. E. L. Fallin says he was the last man to leave the woodshop alive. The roou is in the southwest corner of the building near where the fire started. At the first cry of fire he ran, but turned back at the door for an instant to see if he had time to gather up his tools. The moments hesitation nearly cost him his life. He barely got out of the building before it was 8 mass of flames. Four or five of his fellow workmen, he says, turned back as he did. They were left behind and were certainly burned to death.
 Mr. Fallin's description of the spread of the flames is marvellous. He first saw the flames on the lower floor immediately under meath the paint room. He started for the door, but went back hoping to get out some of the cans before the flames reached them. He had gone no more than twenty steps be- fore there was burst of flame and smoke toward him and he was compelled to run as fast as his legs would take him to the nearest exit. So fast did the flames come that he was scorched on the hands and arms. He managed to protect his face and was not seriously burned. The worst sufferer was Ches- ter Hazeltine. He and Fallin were working together and started out of the building at the same time. Hazeltine returned with Fallin, but came off second best. The poor fellow was so terribly burned that it was hard for him to walk or breathe. The burst of smoke which overlook them completely hid the exit from their view and it was only by groping that they got out. Hazeltine said when the flames and smoke surrounded him he thought he felt the floor sink and thought his time had come He was helped out. As soon as possible he was taken with Fallin to the Providence railroad repair shop and laid on the floor. Here willing hands covered his burns with oil and endeavored to stop the bleeding at his throat After a while he said that he felt comfortable, though his pain was evidently of the most excruciating kind. The skin on his hands was burned off.
 The New England Manufacturers and Me chanics' building was erected in 1881 and ln the autumn of that year it's first industrial exhibition was given, opening toward the close of August and continuing toward the close of October. This was gratifying suc- cess, the financial statement presented show ed that it netted about $16,000. The exhi- bition building of the Institute covered an area of nearly five acres. The available floor space for exhibition purposes exceeded eight acres. The main entrance opened into an ample vestibule which had depth of 134 feet and lateral extent of about 25O feet. Three broad avenues extended across the width of the vestibule. One led directly to the central avenue of the main building and the others led diagonally toward the other two aisles, extending the full length of the main floor parallel with the main or central aisle. The interior construction of the main building was without partitions. Two galleries each sixty-three feet wide ex- tended lengthwiss of the building, built par allel with the sidewalks and at distance of sixty three feet from them. There were gal leries also at the front and rear of the build ing constructed in the ordinary way. The front gallery was spacious. corresponding
 with the dimensions of the vestibule below.
 The spacegbounded byss the gallery fronts
 was 120 by 126, clear of columns and opened
 to the roof height of eighty feet. Grand
 exhibitions were held in the building during
 the autumns of 1883 4. During the winters
 of the years it was utilized as 8 skating rink
 and for pedestrian, bicycle and other con
 tests. About a year ago it was purchased
 by the Metropolitan railroad at less than half
 the first cost and the company had just got
 moved into the building after extensive and
 costly alterations and repairs.
 The fire was undoubtedly incendlary and