Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-05
hymns LOSS.
Over Fifty Acres of the City Of Shoes
in Ashes.
Thousands Of People Homeless Buildings
Worth Many Millions Destroyed.

Lynn, Mass, has just passed through her
second baptism of flames. Over fifty acres of
her territory are mass of smoulderiDg ruins.
Ii was the most disastrous visitation of fire
in the history of that city Of confiagrations.
The loss will reach from S5,000,000 TO
so ,000, 900, and at least 10000 operatives are
out of work, and many thousands homeless
and destitute.
AT ll.55 Tuesday morning a shrill cry OF
Fire coming from the machine shop at
tached to the immense shoe factory of Mower
IL Bro. on Almont street startled the hum
dreds Of operatives employed there, and a
mad rush was made to escape from the build
ing. 1t was a wooden structure, five stories
high, 200 feet long and 100 deep. II stood in
the very heart of the manufacturing centre,
and in less time than it takes to write 1t the
factory was a sheet of flame. A general
alarm was sent out, and the department
responded in good time, but ere the first line
of hose was laid the building was doomed.
The attention of the tremen was then turned
to the adjoining structures, but owing to the
intense heat and their infammable nature
they were soon In the embrace of the roaring,
kissing flames.
The fire in 10 minutes after it started was
beyond the control of the local department,
and urgent appeals We're sent TO Boston,
Swampseott, Peabody, Salem and other
towns for assistance, all Of which were re-
epOHutu 10 Will the uiHloSt III INC
mean time the flames shot forward with the
rapidity of light, gaining fresh energy each
moment. Dynamite was used in razing a
number Of buildings, but the long arms of
flames reached across the spaces thus made,
and IN twinkling they had gathered new
food for devastation. Towering chimneys
and massive walls began to crumble and fall
with a doafening crash, which made the
earth tremble as II shaken by an earthquake.
Losses Of firms and individuals as figured
up at late hour are as follows:
A. +. Mower Bros, 100000.
Lynn Daily Bee Company. $4,000.
Lynn Daily Press, 100000.
G. III. Stevens heirs, $4,000.
II. w. Abergengren, S20,0OO.
William Currier block, $4,000.
b. +. Spnney & Co.. 100000.
j. q. Brown, $4,000.
Arthur Fuller, 100000.
John $. Bartlett a. Co., 100000.
w. b. Cushing a. Co.. $4,000
G. J. Little & Co., $4,000
Charles and Daniel &. Butfum, $4,000.
Joseph y. Smith, $4,000.
Amos +. Breed, $1,000.
Luther 5. johnson, $4,000.
Samuel J. Hollis, $4,000.
Francis w. Breed. $4,000.
Kelly a. Murphy, $4,000.
Tucker cigar store $4,000.
j. W. Goldthwait. S50,000.
mus * buckley, S20.OUO.
James b. Chase & Co., $1,000.
Charles o. Beede, $4,000.
w. &. Thompson, $4,000.
John $. Earle, $4,000.
n. ID. @. Brown. $1,000.
Willis Hanson. $1,000.
+. l.. Burbier, $4,000.
Charles II. Goldthwaite, $4,000.
j. II. Swain & Co.. $1,000.
Charles b. Smith. $1,000.
Jones, Curtis & T0wne, 5000.
Davis Shoe Company, $4,000.
Hought & Godfrey. $4,000.
Breed & Badger. $4,000.
G. ID. Picker & Co.. S35, 900.
w. +. Blanchard, $4,000.
w. II. Holt, $4,000.
Breed and Holder, So, 900.
l.. A. Harrington q Co.. $4,000.
Joseph NJ. Hoyt. $4,000.
James n. Pike, $4,000.
John p. Woodbury., $4,000.
Il. Wescefmower, 1856 900.
j. Il. Renton, $4,000.
oxford Club. $4,000.
Lynn Institution for Savings, $1,000.
+. A. Chase, $4,000.
V. X. & A. II. Jones, $4,000.
c. NJ. Howard & Co., $4,000.
y. Z. Tapley & Co., $4,000.
NJ. II. Abbott S20.000.
Il. III. Ashcroft, $4,000.
Cutcheon Il johnson. $1,000.
II. A. Pevear, $4,000.
George W. Emerson n CO., $4,000.
4. +. Elder, $4,000.
NJ. V. Bresnahan. $4,000.
Peter johnson. 5000.
Harden 4 Blanchard. SI5, 200.
Morning News, 5000.
Daily Item, 100000.