The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-06
TEN MILLIONS in ASHES.
DEVASTATION WROUGHT ny Flisls
IN LYNN, MASS.

IN LYNN, NaADos
7l,rec Hundred Buildings, COmprtsing the
Business and Manufacturing Portion OF
the CITY, Laid Waste-Thousauds Of Elm.
pinycs Robbed oT Their Positions.
Lynn, tMassl tslegram.l
By q contiagr ration on the afternoon
of the 9th of November. millions
OF collars worth of shoes end lumber
vent up in smole from the busi.
ness district Of the biggest shoe town 10
the world, throwing ont OF work S.9Wo
operatives and rendering 1874 families
homeless. Mighty acres that were crowded
with buildings a few hours ago are a mass
of ruins. The scene Of ruin and desolatton
is complete. Some idea of the devasta-
ton can be gained from the statement
that 2s6 buildings were completely wiped
out of existence, mnny others being more
or less damaged. Among tue bur1nea
buildings were forty-two brick structures.
TAP business houses built of wood and llS
dwelling houses. One church. the Eastern
railroad station, four banks and four news
papers were among the public concerns
burned out. The fire spread with such
f,ishtful rapidity that the department
was helpless, and the flames leaped from
street to street with little opposition In the
silnpe of water. The heat was so intense
that the men could not approach near
enough to use their streams to advantage,
and although, assistance was sent from
Boston, Salem, Maiden, Marblehead, Sau-
eors. Everett and other places, the fire
worked its way to the water front tefors
it wns sulrlued. The great bulk Of the
buildings were Of wood, and In these tho
flames held high carnival. But even the
brick blocks offered little resistance.
They, too, were swept away like so much
chaif in the whiriwind OF fire. After the
flames had gone beyond the control Of the
department a panic seemed to seize upon
tho firemen and citizens. The streets were
filed with people shouting madly in their
out of the windows to SEQ what caused the
disturbance and saw a wall Of fire coming
down the street. 1t was in many instances
a race for life. The mon poured out of
the buildings in a human stream.
leaving everything behind. And
they wero nnne too soon, fer in a
t'yinkling great buildings were enwrapped
in flames and dissolved. 1t wns a terri
BILE sight even for the experienced eyes Of
tire.Men. The railroad track was jumped
hy the flames with ease, and the same mad
Iusu was cohtinue0. 1be Two Mltltary
companies were called out to clear the
ba accomplished. Early in the afternoon
outside assistance begun to arrive, but
then there was a total of only fifteen
engines, and the fire was jumping in all
directions, unchecked by the streams
being thrown upon it. Chief Engineer
Moody became Frustrated during the
height of the confagration, and Chief
Weber of Boston took command. He
massed ~thesengines on Newhall street and
stayed the progress of tho fire toward
what remained of the business district.
Tint alone saved Lynn from utter anni-
Lilation.
After the business houses had been eaten
up tho fire lot itself loose among the
dwelling houses on Sycamore hill. Most
of these were cheap structures, occupied
by poor families. They burned like finder.
end the fire cut 81 wide path to the water.
The Inst big building TO go was the Cen
trail Congregational church. It was a
brick structure and wa ono of the best In
the city. IT stood out from the rest of the
buildings and afforded a magnificent spec
tacle to thousands OF persons. The fire
burned n long time before the windows
were broken, tho reflection from within
being very picturesque. Then the flames
Hurst simultaneously from the windows
and the belfry, and the steeple swayed and
fell with a crash into tho street. 1t was
a total loss.
Tho burned district is nearly triangular
in shape. two Of the sides being half a
mile in length, and the third q quarter of
n mile. 1t covers fully eighty acres of
what was the most Furnishing business
section. Many of the Oldest aud largest
firms in the country are burned out. in
p1lldiNn EtenrH nv 1lr,n1 D@-..-kt D. H.
naid. Amos +. Breed, Davis Shoe com
l.any. Luther s. johnson, w. 7. Ash. J..
4: Bartlett & Co., Charles d. Pecker, f.
w. I; c. +. Mower, Mower Bros, 'Bubier
Il scnthcr, Jonathan Orne, c. H. Har-
wood, Il. W Jones. j. II. Swain, Charles
i. Bnffnm, q. Brown, B. II. Gorham, W.
A. Estes, w. j. Ewing Is Co II. NJ. Acker.
Healy Pros, Kelley & Murphy, Hill &
Newell, @. N. Z. ingalls,, v. X. q A. H.
Jones, Kelley IS Murphy. Parker & Bros,
George I: keine, w. L. Newhall, NJ. ID.
Porter, w. Porter a. Lon, A. NJ. Burdett,
Sanders. Morse q Co., H. H. Spinney, D.
a. Sutherland g. Co., c. H. viltum a Co.
Welcl, Is landergan, George +. Williams.
). n. Mower IL Bro, 2. J. Hanley, j. e.
Rennett &, Barnard, Consolidated Adjust.
aile Shoe Company, B. F. Spinney & Co.,
Eaunce Il Spinney, J. L. Libbey Is Co., c.
II. Libbey " Co. The newspapers burned
out were the Item, Bee and Press. The
latter SET ITS presses to work Tuesday for
the first time. 1t published but one edi-
tion and then lost everything.
1t is impossible yet to give individual
losses but the aggregate is, according to
careful estimates, not much short OF SO
C0D,0OO. Mayor Newhall in an interview
said: Lynn has suffered the greatest
calamity in its history. The business por-
tion of the city is almost a wreck. over
u,ocp persons are thrown out of work and
2Oo families are homeless. The CITY Of
Lynn will be forced to issue an appeal for
assistance. 1t it impossible to compute
the loss, but it must reach somewhere in
tho vicinity of S1D, 900, O00." The Msyor
makes a special appeal for clothing At
once. as many occupants Of the tenements
burned lost everything. His honor has
made a requisition on Gov. Ames for six
companies of militia to do police and
guard duty.
Tho shoe industry Of the place il almost
entirely wiped out. Out of 10 manufact.
urei's, large and small, less than two dozen
remain. Among the heavy losses are thsss:
Mower liros $1,000
~ nafliafu. 100000
CAD. Pccker & CO..sllOc manufacturers. AZ 0l
liam ~ lor.ef& sons, siioes......... 10000
~ e.uouWlii m iortcr's building. 12,OOO
r, :: =. .,pinnes - 13s,G0O
y. y. seven 2O.0M
Titus 4 Buckley o;0S
consolidated Adjustable Shoe CO.. oO0M
SnmuclJ j. Hollis, Shoes. % 0m
is. Bartlett & Co. slloes.......... Ts'W