Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-02
Great CONGREGATIONS.

Lynn, Mass, has suffered a great
loss from a fire on Tuesday, which
destroyed all the heart and business
part of the city-an area estimated
to be more than so acres The fire
! caught in a section of the town where
/ there were many wooden building
and soon got beyond control. Assist
ance was sent from all the surround
ing cities, but the fire swept on un-
til it reached the harbor, literally
burning itself out. The loss is va
riOusly estimated at from five to ten
million dollars. 1t is stated that
two million will be received back
from the insurance companies. A
large area occupied by wooden
houses, the homes of laborers, was
burned over and hundreds are penni-
less and homeless. The town au-
thorities are taking measures to shell
ter and feed the poor and outside
hely IN money and other necessaries
is coming in freely.
Lynn is great shoe manufacture
ing city and many firms are burned
out; but it is hoped and expected
that the city will soon be built up
again and business resumed.
BosToN. Nov. 2S.-A disaster sec
ond to only one in history is what
Thanksgiving brought to Boston, and
as coincidence the alarm which an
nounced to-day's fire was within a
square of the box rung on the fatal
9th of November, 1872, while the
present fire consumed the buildings
erected upon the hearth of the old
burned district.
At 8 10 o'clock fire was discovered
in the five-story brown-stone building
on the southeast corner of Bedford
and Kingston streets, owned by Fred
Ames and occupied by Brown, Dur
rell & Co., the largest wholesale dry
goods house in the city, and so rap
idly did the flames spread that by
noon the fire had spread between two
and three squares in each direction
obliterating over 60 of the finest
warehouses in Boston, estimated loss
fully s8,OOO,OOO.
At s 80, when the general alarm
was sent in, the scene beggared de-
scription. Soon the big building of
Brown, Durrell & Co., was a furnace
and the castle like brown sloven
structure of Taylor, & Bros. whole
sale, hat and straw goods, and the
five story brick building of Lamson
& Hubbard started off with q roar
and the firemen found themselves
caught in a trap. Hastily dropped
their hose-pipe, men of Engines p,
&c, Truck Is and the big water tower,
deserted their apparatus and literally
crawled out of the elements raging
around them, while three streams
playing on them was all that saved
them from roasting. Five minutes
later their apparatus was buried be-
meath the falling walls along with two
unhappy members of the truck com
pany, F. A. Laker and d. j. Buck
ley. The fire was now master and in
less than 15 minutes the solid brown
stone blocks east and west on Bed
ford street, for square each side of
the Durrell building, were roaring.
Here it was that the call for outside
aid was made.
By IL o'clock the flames had spread
two blocks each way round the start
ing point and reached within square
of Washington street, where were
located the great dry goods of Jor-
dan, Marsh & Co. and r. II. White &
Co. besides several hotels, including
the Adams House, and the five prin-
cipal theaters, Boston, Globe, Park,
Bijou, and fremont, these were all
black with people covering the roofs
and guarding the windows from fly
ing sparks. The streets were dark
with smoke, the air quivering with
thunder of falling walls, when Provi-
dence interposed. In an instant, al
most, the gale ceased and the wind
backed suddenly round to the west
and Washington street was saved.
Most of the buildings destroyed
were business houses and very few
private dwellings suffered, except on
the south side. The tenement hous.
es south of Essex street were evacu-
ated during the fire being holiday the
business houses, many of them en-
ploying large force of both men
and girls, were empty and there was
no panic, so besides the two fremen
killed, and three others injured by
falling walls, no casualties occurred.
At 9 tonight the insurance is estimat-
ed at Sc, 6,OOO,OOO, in the companies
suffering by the Lynn fire, many of
the buildings were occupied by the
big woolen and cotton mill corpora
tion who had on hand heavy stock
for the winter; hence the heavy loss.
The Bennington Monument.