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 grafton of Seventeen Years
Ago Again Visited by FIRE.

Ago Again Visited by Fare.
Lives Feared TO be Lost.
disastrous fl e broke out in Boston at
'oo O'CLOCK in the morning in tue six story
granite building owned by Jordan, Marsh s.
Co., aud occupied by Brown, Durrell & Co. ).
aeaier In dry goods on the corner Of Bed
tord and Kingston Streets The fire ragged
nsrcely for four hours, and it was two hours
before all danger Of spreading was over.
More than twenty noble buildings, reared
with view Of making ehem - -areproot ~
mcdsrn invention could devise, which were
ui'ei Win valuable merchandise, were ell
HreIy destroyed with their contents. The
'oss, according to ths best information OBJ
talnable will be Slo,000,tO). Two and half
acres OF the most valuable busln. S, pr operty
were wiped out Of existence Several fro
men and employees OF the ruined buildings
are missing aud 1t Is feared that the loss OF
half dcZ II lives will be added to tho horror
oil the stu ition,
1t was about 80 O'Clock when n letter
Carrier saw fl ,meS bun st from the ton story
WINDOW x Brown, ID ell & Co.'S massive
building at the corner OF Bedford and King
stou Street. A olent storu, was raging ae
IN time and few pcopls we're on the streets
Tho rain was full!nS in torrents and the
"ihd was b.ow'ng gale Ot course, those
n
the buildings. Other people buried along
WIN their hats pulled over their eyes This
explanation IS necessary to show how the
hre obtained such h .Gdway before bein. ds.
v,., Gove,el IN re was 40 Waterman i'll the
building. The letter crrrier notified a nc
lIceman aud kept on distributing letters
Ihe policenln--rmss,fi-t 4, he pIg nre in 1879,
but now located one block from whore It
WAS then, unl in a minute engine was on
theground. The r, st Of b apparatus which
answers that call tBundr, UP, aud Ucfor. q
line OF hose could be laid the flames burst
from every window Oil ce Gu OF the five floors
1 hs heat was terrible, but the nremen
plucRIly held their ground, while chief Web
b,r ordered second and tuiri alarms t., 10
rung at once. Fourteen engines and other
apparatus esponded. tut tho men could 40
no hing with the awful furnace (which COW
,red an urea Of 2J 900 square feet, Tor such
1t was when they ched the place. Tie
gale lifted solid body OF flame fifty feet into
tue air and then flung 1t down IN an ut-
broken mass upon tue buildings OH all sides
the very air seemed abaz.. Long flaming
streamers lsapcd out of the windows and
searched for a hold upon surround ng s;ruc.
lures, until it looked as though the street
WAS teS.coued with fire.
linn diately after the walls of Erowp,
Durrel d. Co.'S building fen the ii sprca,i
in all di, eciioIs. No human beings coud
stand within u block of the awful furnace.
Tue br: was i'll supreme control, uud jumped
across Bedford aud Kingston streets with
ease.
The fl mes q iickly worked their way to-
wari Dsdlord street. The wnole beck bound-
s.n ling mighty II ~, Sc u
air. With every gcst the 4fsnre y dszd fsifM
out across the street, and, in less time than
IL takes 10 tell the story, the building, ON the
west side OF Chaunc.y Street were aUiaEt.
Then II l.ieat tar :eiz II upon ths spectators.
But a single block OF bui.uIusss parated the
flames Item Il. II. Whites gigantic establish
NEST, and Tut few Iods further North was
Jordan, Marsh g. Co. 5 establishments II the
fire got foolho.d OIL WaSh.ngi on street
nothing cou Il stoplt progress. chief w. b.
Der watched Ior the arrival OF outside eng ines
with as mach anxiety y as general could look
| for Reserves wuen he knew that delay meant
deieat. IL was at tnis criticaI jlLc.ure the
scene, closely follower by others. until more
than lhi ty were pulling and throwing tn .ir
streams upon the burninS budding.
On the Nvrtu slue o. Bedford street the
| flames reduced Il dCz.n ihree-stDry brick and
! ened b, fore the determined attack OF the fire.
men, without orkInG further into the retail
district. Tue same result was attained on
Bedford street, est of Brown, Durrell 81
Co.'S building, The Il joining structure WAS,
Of course, guLted, ami 50 was tho bu.l ling on
the opposite side or Columbia street. But
the iiremen worHed like 1rojuns to save tho
| lealh II houses that lie in tnat direction, anu
succeeded. That left tho body OF fumes at
! tho four corners of Chauncey and Bedford
streets. Again and gain the fire swept across
the street and tried to get hold upon tho
| bui .dinGs on the north side OF Bedford, but
| the firemen pluckiiy held their ground anu
won tho night.