Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
LYNN'S 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 smouldering ruins. It was the most disastrous visitation of fire in the history of that city of conflagrations. The loss will reach from $5,0O0 900 to $10, ,0O0, 900, and at least 10000 operatives are out of work, and many thousands homeless and destitute.
 At 11.55 Tuesday morning 8 shrill cry of s'Fire" coming from the machine shop at- tached to the immense shoe factory of Mower & Bro. on Almont street startled the hun- dreds of operatives employed there, and a mad rush was made to escape from the build ing. It was a wooden structure, five stories high, 200 feet long and 100 deep. It stood in the very heart of the manufacturing centre, and in less time than it takes to write 1t the factory was 8 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 firemen was then turned to the adjoining structures, but owing to the intense heat and their inf1smnable nature hissing flames.
 The fire in 15 minutes after it started was beyond the control of the local department, and urgent appeals We're sent to Boston, Swampscott, Peabody. Salem and other towns for assistance, all of which were re- sponded to with the utmost alacrity. In the mean time the flames shot forward with the rapidity of light, gaining fresh energy each moment. Dynamite was used in raging a number of buildings, but the long arms of flames reached across the spaces thus made, and in a twinkling they had gathered new food for devastation. Towering chimneys and massive walls began to crumble and fall with doafening crash, which made the earth tremble as if shaken by an earthquake. Losses of firms and individuals az figured up at late hour are as follows:
 A. F. Mower Bros., S1000OO.
 Lynn Daily Bee Company, $30 900. Lynn Daily Press, .$12O, 900.
 c. H. Stevens heirs, $150,0OO.
 F. w. Abergeugren, $20, 900.
 William Currier block, $5O,O 900.
 F. Spinney $ Co.,, $6O,OOO.
 J. G. Brown, e40,0O0.
 Arthur Fuller, $6O 900.
 John s. Bartlett & Co.,, S6O,0O0.
 W. B. Cushing < Co.,. $20, 0,0OO.
 c. J. Little t Co.,, S15,000
 Charles and Daniel c. Buffum, $75 ,00O. Joseph N. Smith, $50,000.
 Amos F. Breed, $75, 900.
 Luther s. Johnson, $40 900.
 Samuel J. Hollis, $25, 900.
 Francis w. Breed, $50,0O
 Kelly & Murphy, $10,OO0.
 Tucker cigar store $50OO.
 J. w. Goldthw ait, $5OOOO.
 Titus X Buckley, $23,0OO.
 James B. Chase & Co.,, $200O.
 Charles O. Beede, $35 900.
 w. c. Thompson, S15 900.
 John s. Earle, $45, 900.
 N. D. c. Brown, $5OOG. Willis Hanson. S50O0.
 F. l.. Burbier, S40O0.
 Charles Fl. Goldthwaite, S60O0.
 J. F. Swain & Co.,, 33O00.
 Charles B. Smith, $3OOO. Jones, Curtis & Towne, 95000.
 Davis Shoe Company, $35,00O.
 Houghtnn $ Godfrey. $3O ,OOO.
 Breed & Badger, $15, 900.
 c. D. Pecker & Co.,, $35 900.
 w. E. Blanchard, $2O, ,OOO.
 W. H. Holt, $15,0 900.
 Breed and Holder, $25, ,0OO.
 l.. A. Burlington S Co.,, SI5, ,0O0. Joseph NJ. Hoyt, S30, 900.
 James N. Pike, S20,OO
 John P. Woodbury, $25, 900.
 E. Wescefmower, S35, ,OOO.
 J. B. Benton, S20, 900.
 Oxford Club, $15,0OO.
 Lynn Institution for Savings, $6O, 900. P. A. Chase, S3O,O 900.
 V. K. & A. H. Jones, S5O,0OO.
 c. NJ. Howard & Co.,, S25 900.
 F. F. Tapley & Co.,, S50, ,000.
 NJ. H. Abbott, $20. 900.
 E. H. Ashcroft, $50 ,OO0.
 Cutcheon & Johnson, S2OOO.
 H. A. Pevear, $20,OO0.
 George w. Emerson & Co.,, S10,0OO. E. E. Elder, S40OOO.
 NJ. V. Bresnahan, S5O,0OO.
 Peter Johnson, $5OOO.
 Harden & Blanchard, $15,00O
 Morning News, S5OOO.
 Daily Item, $20 900.