The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-29
FEARFUL FIRE.
BOSTON VISITED BY ANOTHER
CONFEDERATION.
Business Portion OF tho City swept by
Flsmes-Aid Sent from Other Cities
Losses Over $40 900 900


leather manufacturers on the upper floors
The FIRE evidently had complete possession
Of the upper floor before il was discovered
by the flames bursting from all the upper
4 windows. The alarm was promptly an
swered, but before a stream could be gO
on the two upper stories were pouring
| forth flames that reached across Bedford
street and caught the staging in front o
the new Shoe and Leather Exchange build
ing in process of erection.
SECOND, THIRD AND GENERAL ALARM
followed each other in quick succession
but before the additional apparatus had ar
rived the flames leaped across Bedford,
Kingston and Columbus streets, and had
also attacked the buildings in the rear in
the same block, and engines already in po-
sition were obliged 10 retreat 10 new posi-
items on account Of the great heat, and TO
abandon the ladders and long line Of hose
By9:l5 the handsome brown stone Ames
building on the opposite corner OF Bedford
and Kingston streets was mass of flames
GREAT SHEETS OF FLAME
poured from every window and reached
across Bedford street, cracking the glass OF
the opposite windows and setting them on
fire in all their upper stories.
PROGRESS or THE CONFLAGRATIoN.
DA N.bO lHt Ttdl VI lut WI
| Chauncey street, either side Of Bedford,
were on fire, and the firemen were apparent
ly unable to cope with the cOnfiagration
| The chief then sent TO all the suburban
cities and towns for help, which was prompt
| ly rendered.
"Details of police soon had all that section
| bounded by summer, Washington, Essex,
and Lincoln streets rOped off so thoroughly
that il was impossible to get near enough
the fire to gather facts for the press. just
as the United Press reporter was obliged 10
retreat before the policemen's clubs on
Avon street, Jordan. Marsh & Co., G. f.
Uoyey a. CO., and host Of other dry goods
firms on that street, were loading herdics,
express wagons, and hacks with silks and
the more valuable of their goods.
TIE FIRST GENERAL ALARM
sent out in Boston since the big fire, was
rung in this morning for fire which started
/ i'm the building occupied by Brown, Darrell
4 Co. on Bedford street, and which
proved TO be in Il twinkling more
/ Than the first, second and third detachmesni
could readily handle. The first alarm was
sounded at Sl5, and the building in which
the fire started, always thought 10 be hre
proof. burned like tinder-boX, and the
flames rose
HUNDREDS OF FEET
into the air. A second alarm was rung In
| at s 30 o'clock, and when the apparatus re
sponded TO this more was needed.
4 little after o'clock a third alarm was
sent out. and in half an hour there wa'
issued a neral alarm, VIII n brought ap
paratus from Cambridge, Somer'llle, and
Chelsea. ri, G
Co. where the Gre caught, il spread across
the street and back through the burning
building into Chauncey street. In ~"
minutes il had extended along Cbauncel
street on the left-hand side, eating lntO ID,
building next TO ii on the south, occupied
nv Cluett. Koon a Co., and in less than ten
minutes was forcing its way through the
next mammoth stone building, occupied 10y
Williams a Co., on the next corner sOhtn.
yrom the other side il took hold almost al
once upou the buildings on Rowe Place a.
the lower eud. and the wind favored Tn,
suDDosition that the whole South cove anC
! The wholesale district was doomed.
/ ON fhe east side Of Chauncey street, The
buildin0s. all of them mammoth structures
xere occupied as wholesale houses III th'
drv.goods and fancy goods trade, and every
endeaVor was made i0 Keep these IRON
igniting. At the intersection ol howe rlac'
with the great building OF ClanlD, LaTrape,
/ { 90. a number Of engines were inasseo
holding the fire calamity In eheek, thtb 'h'
I lilo stone bnilding Of ;. Williams C0', ni
Ctamncev stree. and Rowe Place ignited
when finding
FIERCE CONFLAGRATl0N
in their rear, they had 10 hurry, up u
Rowe Place 10 save, if possible, the lohi
granite block on the west side oil thsupce,
street. This effort was futile and the ms
stole across.
HOT AIR EXPLOSION.
Inst before this, while small army OF
E Jremen were irving TO save Chanucey street
| tho hot air generated by the nre raging III
: he rear. blew out the entire glass front o
VI. ~. chauncey street occupied by W rlgn
nros.- dealers in skins and furs. flreihe'
,,,ero IN the building with a line of hose, aD'
w. w. II, orally blown out into the street
Cne oC them named hanDing was cut ant
,orn in a Jrightful manner, His eyes wer'
forced out Of his head. Al lO!iO y, NJ
ruy MASSIVE WELLINGTON BUILDING.
-, c,auueey aud Bedford streets, caught
Gre The building was occupied Dy rIerG
A. 90. Lawrence 4 Co, anu olher III! SoOu
commission nrms. The puheHS wa wa
! aooded with water. Ia this building VA
,"""sod noou, ,he hig lace concern Of Shoninger
( Noses 4 90. William Ble0nj Co, Wool
ens. George +. sears, cotns; AHethins
80. and several other large nrms, wp5e o.
The Avon PlOce corner was ioca'eu III
Mount Vernon National Bank.
| Farley. Harvey 4 Co.'s gentlemen bui
: nishing establishment, on Chauncet Sueo'
.,ns i'm flames shortly before II O'CLOCK
ktll:30 o'clock the fire was
WILL 81 HAND,
and confined wholly 10 the block ON tn
corn ~ os Ihauncey and Bedford streets am
that osposi,s. 10 the westward, occupied b,
Morse tarfabee 4 Co., George l.. ffosi
/ Co., and Marley. Harvey 4 Co.
LOSSES ESTIMATED AT s2,550,Oco.
I Tho ,,Job> makes the following estimate
o,- the los. by to-day's fire: Loss on build
- DESTROYED as per assessors Nalua
- a bout $500. .0oQ, damage to other Ddlld
;n,,s No, DESTROYED mostly water), s2oV,W"
naref,I es, 'mate OF loss GA merchandlse
a, -oo 900. 10, ii loss careful osiiMate OF al
| Old assessor), s., oSO,eoV, -. a,oo.
,,.nr,b f,,iiy ssOS .OOd which is . total loss
.rhey are insured for $f75,0Oo. faylcr BROS
hats and caps, report thsIr loss AL &ioV,ooV
ON which they have an insurance VI f'''
OOO. .,o ooo ooo
BosroS. November 2s.-The loss by 10 70
49, s,e is estimatel to- night at $40, 900, oW
A, The IRE ragged for six hours. and the ourne'
district extends over two scIe: y, oS ,b.
shiob MAS covered Sith structures oi th'
best eiass.
YEoSAsLK ORIGIN or rns rIBE'
The fra WAS first seen burning ffcle ny
| ton ot tisIrown building at Bedford sp'
Kingston streets. il va. over the elevate
shaft and probably originated ID the shall
: The blaze was discovered by ietser-car
r,er. who notified n policeman. 9pe omce
/ s,,r,sJ in the alarm at the same box mon
sLich The great fire OF 1872 - sounded
The ia4kes tire started at kingstoh ala pun
mer stfaets>
: TWO HUNDRED FIRMS BURNT OUT
There are about 200 firms burned out, an
| leS ssents Of New YoI% and Western hrIn RI,
have A ad their headquarters destroyed. In
.eseniy-cins insurance companies tnqy
10 lie Interested carry an aggregate "
surance of yz.SQoy9o0 on the burned pfoi
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