The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-27

PROMISES to he the most disastrous mr.
Lynn has seen for years started at il:o9 "A
NJ. over the bOiler-rOOm in Mower * Bro
theirs four-stOry wooden building. on Al
mont street. In teneninutes the entire real
Of the building was in flames. The SIX
story brick block known as Mowers block
which faces on Willow street, next caught
Fifteen minutes after the lire had started
il was beyond control.
II. M.-The fire is spreading fast. over
half mile has been burned over. All the
buildings within quarter Of mile OF the
Market-street depot. including the Western
Un,on Office, all Of the Lynn newspapers,
and
ABOUT THIRTY-PIyE SHOE FAcToTIEs
have been burned.
3:i5 =. M.-The firemen are blowing up
buildings. in hopes TO check the progress OF
the fire.
A boiler blew up in building on Market
street and it is reported that four men were
killed.
THE FIRE RAGING.
4P.M.-The fre is still raging, and is burn
ing in the direction Of the water front.
sweeping everything before il. There are
several reports Of men being burned. but no
bodies have been recovered as yet. The mil
itary companies OF Lynn, salem, and other
places in the immediate vicinity are guard
ing the streets which are filled with people
who have been burned out Of house and
home and have lost everything. Steamers
are still arriving from places between Lynn
and Boston.
THE BURNED DISTRICT
is, at present. bounded by the following
5 reefs Silsbee, Mulberry, oxford, Willow.
Monroe, Washington, Spring, and Mount
Vernon. This includes every building on
the streets named as far as they extend, and
on the following streets beyond them Cen
tral avenue, AlmOnt, Union. Exchange, and
Market.
ESTIMATE or LOSSES
4:30 p. M.-The loss 10 the Boston and
Maine railroad will be about $4,000, as
nothing was saved from the depot except
the tickets.
There is report now that twelve men
have been killed, but this has not been yer-
fed
500 p. M.-The fire has reached the
waters edge and will burn itself out for
lack Of fresh material.
THE LATEST LOSS.
Latest loss is now estimated at ten mill
lion dollars.
BosTON. November 2G.-9:3O p. MA
dispatch Just received from Lynn says:
The fire has now burned an area Of n mile
square. IL is extending towards swamp
scott but is thought 10 be under control.
After consultation with some fifteen Of the
hest posted boot and shoe men of the city.
the loss is cxtimated at six or seven million
dollars.
LATEST REPORT.
LYNN. MASS, November 9i.-Lynn. the
city of shoes. was this afternoon visited by
the greatest fire in its history, and with but
two exceptions. the most disastrous which |
has ever visited New England. The eXcep- |
tiOns are the great Boston Of 1872. and which |
DESTROYED between eighty and ninety mil |
lions Of dollars worth Of property and the
Portland fire Of 1866 which caused loss Of
between ten and twelve millions.
TO-day's fire started at li:jj \. NJ, RACED |
over eight hours, devastated a square mile /
of the business section Of the city, and
caused a
LOSS ESTIMATED AT TEN MILLIONS.
In fact, the greater part Of ward four is
wiped out. as regards the important manu-
featuring blocks and prominent places Of
business.
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION or THK CONFLA-
GRAFTON.
The fire started in Mowers wooden build
ng. on AlmOnt street. over the boiler, and
spread 30 rapidly that the excellent fire
department. Of the city was p0werless 10
.ope with it. This large wooden building
was soon doomed, and the flames leapc
across a narrow passage-way and commu-
icated with the siX-stOry brick block
known rs Movers block. When these two
got well under way, it was evil
lent that terrible cOn1agratiOn would re-
,ult.
Aid arrived from Boston. Salem, Marble
read and other surrounding towns. but the
Inited efforts seemed to have little effect on
THEHURRICANE OF FLAME.
scenes fimiliarin the great Boston and Chi
ago ires were repeated in all their horrors
mothers fleeing with babes ia their arms.
.Xpress wagons loading at business and
lwelling houses, and transferring goods 20
llaces OF safety, in many cases second re-
nOyal being necessary, and the utmost con-
usiOn and alarm prevailing. The excite
nent increased and became panic rs II
became realized that a cOntlagrati0n threat
ming the entire business quarter was in
,rogress. After the fire had been burning
wO hours everybody agreed that II would
lot stop until it had reached the ocean, and
his proved to be the case.
bEsrLT OF THE CONFLtGRATI0N.
-Four daily newspapers are burned out
he Item, Bee, Press, ana NcWs-three af-
ernNon and one morning, Three national
Central. Security, and First Ma
with the Lynn Institution
or savings, located in the First National
,lOck. are all wiped out. Twelve OF the
inest shoe blocks in the city are in ruins,
md about twenty-five stores.
The Central congregational Church was
.h-ned 10 the g.OsnA between g and !
'clock. The First Methods, eaG First
'niyersalist churches and several school
ouses have been thrown open TO accom-
nodale burned Out Families,
RELIEF COMMITTEE CALLED.
Mayor Newhall has called special meet
ng OF the Aldermen TO take action and
moose relief committees. B. +. Breed Il
'0.. the largest lumber dealers in Essex
ounty, lose everything, including their
andsOme brick structure at Beach and |
Broad streets. They estimate their loss at
200, 600, with about $4,000 insurance.
pYSsnrrG tSp POWDER
we're used NJ frequent inyeIyals 10 blow mp {
wooden buildings. but with little eject. The
Ire virtually burned itself Oui, and at 80
vas considered under control, |,
Ii is impossible as YET. 10 estimate the |
insurance, but conservative estimates place |
be loss on property at SlO.OOo,0OO.
HE GREATEST CALAMITY IN ITS HISTORY.
LfAs, Mass. November 26.-MayOr
'ewhall, IN an in,e..icg late this evening,
aid: Lynn has suffered the gfeaiee, "a
imity in its history. The business portion
{ the city is almost a wreck. over six
iousand persons are thrown out Of work,
nd two hundred families are homeless. ,
1.-The city Of Lynn will be forced 10 issue !
n appeal for assistance. ! am 10th to do ,,
D. .,,,: en- obliged under the circumstances , ,
make sucn ~ appeal. Ii is impossible ,,
} compute the loss. nut il must reach some :
here in the vicinity OF Sl0,0OoOOO." :
The mayor makes especial appeal for :
lothng. az once. as many Of the occupants ,
{ the teneInenIs uilfnod l0se all their
lothcs. acquisitions we've made on all the !
,wns and cities within twenty miles known !
} have any apparatus, and all OF these re- /,
uests met with prompt response.
Salem sent three engines, Beverly started !
,ward the burning city, Newburyport, T,
and Peabody did what they y
ould with one engine apece, Everett and >
helsea both. two engines, and Marblehead