The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-13
GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON.
Two Acres and a half Burned
in the Business Centre.
sections of the city Destroyed by tho
Conf 'srattOn OF Seventeen Years
Ago Again Visited by Fire.
LIYNA Eanrad

Ago Again Visited by Fire.
Lives Feared to. bo Lost.
disastrous n. broke out in Boston at
$50 O'clock in the morning in the six story
granite building owned by Jordan, Marsh &,
Co', aud occupied by Brown, Durrell & Co. !,
aealer in dry goods on the corner of Bed
lord and Kingston Streets. The fire ragged
nercely for four hours, and 1t was two hours
oetore all danger Of spreading was over.
More than twenty noble buildings, reared
With q view Of .nAAhins .sasss - -asspsoes-Ss
medorn invention could devise, which were
hi'ei with valuable merchandise, were EN-
tirely destroyed with their contents. The
loss, according to tbs best information OBJ
tainable will be $40, 200, o. Two and a hale
acres OF the most valuable busin. s, property
were wiped out Of existence. Several fro
men and employees OF the ruined buildinps
are missing aud 1t is feared that the loss or
haif doz N lives will be added to tho horror
oil the situation.
1t was about S 80 O'Clock when a letter
carrier saw Il lanes bui st from the top story
window, r Brown, ID r ell & Co.'s massive
building at the corner OF Bedford and King
ttoh Street. A olent storm was raging at
In In time and few peopls were on the streets.
Ihe rain was fulling in torrents and tho
who had umbrellas could not see the tops of
the buildings. Other people buried along
with their hats pulled over their eyes. THIS
explanation is necessary to show how the
Dire o1tatned such h,adway bcfors benz dis.
covered TIL re was 10 watchman i'm the
building. The letter crrrier notified a po-
Ilceman aud kept on distributing letters--
Ihsu policena n -saassorf turhu'pIy Hire In 1879.
but now located QUO block from whore ip
was then, UNI in minute engine was on
khn, nnI h..r. 4 fSNf n ,t,,s IA A.,
answers that call thundr, Il up, aud Uefors q
line OF hose could DO laid the flames burst
from every window OH cach OF the five floors
1hs heat was terrible, but tho nremen
plucKily held their ground, while chief Web
b.r Cruered second aid third alarms to be
rung ut once. Fourteen engines and other
apparatus responded. hut tho men could 40
no hing with the awful furnace (which COW
,red al area Of -, 900 square feet. for such
It wAs-@hen- they II q yneu tue place. Tie
ga,e lifted solid Dody OF flame fifty feet into
tue air and then aung 1t down IN an Ut
broken mass upon tho buildings on all sides
The very air seemed ablaz.. Long flaming
streamers lsaped out OF tho windows and
searched for held upon surround ing s;ruc.
lures, until it looked as though the street
was tes.ooued with fire.
linn diately after the ualls Of Erowu,
Durrel d. Co.'S building fen the II spreau
In all di, eclions. No human beings cou.d
stand within u block of the awful furnace.
Tue fir, was In supreme control, uud jumped
acrcss Bedford and Kingston streets with
ridiculous ease.
The II mes q iickly worked their way to-
ward Bs,ilO ord street. The whole block bound-
ssnIing o mighty colu ~ tpayA5 tlS|
air. With every gtSt ffsu . ~ P60l<3 fS6<l<'
out across the street, and, in less time than
1t takes 10 tell tho story, the buildings on the
west side OF ChauncJy street were aoiaze.
Then l. eat I, ar :siz ii upon ths spectators.
But a sinSl 10 block OF BuiIuiugss parattd the
flames from II. II. Whlto'S gigantic establish
nest, and but few ods further North .wus
Jordan, Marsh g. Co. Establishments It,the
fire got u foolho.d o. WashIngto OH street
nothing cCu Il stop its progress. chief Web
ber wal,:hed lor the arrival OF outside engines
with AS mach anxiety us general could look
for reserves wnen he knew that delay meant
deieat IL was at tins eTiticai juLc.ure the
than thi ty were pulling and throwing thai
streams upon tho burning building.
On Lhe North side OF Bedford street tho
flames reduced u doZ.n lhree-stpry brick and
stone LuiidIugs to ruins, hut the fire slack.
cned b, fore the determined attack OF the fire.
men, without orkIng further into the retail
district. The same result was attained on
Bedford str,et, eSst of Brown, Durreli 81
Co. X building. The II joining structure Wac,
of course, guLled. anu 80 was the Du.l ling on
the opposite side or Columbia street But
the iremen worried like Trojans to save tho
iealh: n houses that lie in that direction, and
succeeded. That left tho body OF flames at
Tho four corners OF Chauncey and Bedford
streets. Again nnd again the ire swept across
the street and tried to get u hold upon the
bui dings on the mort b side OF Bedford, but
the iiremen pluckiiy held their ground and
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