Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-28
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Disastrous Fire in Boston.


building, Jordan, Marsh * Co.'S dry goods
house and several other business houses are
on fi-e. There is also large fire in East
Boston, which is beyond control Of the FIRE
department Assistance has been asked
from twenty one cities and towns.
A walk completely around the section
roped of by tbs police, just before moor,
confirms the view that the fire is under
control. Ouv of town fire apparatus con-
tinue to dash 10, their horses reeking With
foam aud wild with excitement There were
probably rs steamers surrounding TIE fire
by 1890. and Judging from the decreased
volume of smoke which rises from it at r.
m. their Efforts are being crowned with sue
cess.
The fremen were aided by o pouring rain
which lasted from early last evfn'ng until
Just abou. the time they got the fire under
control at neon Otherwise there ia little
doubt that other fires would have been
started by The storm Of embe.s; some OF
them az large as half brick. which
fell like a snow storm in all drectiors,
The soaked condition OF The roofs, however,
and the pouring rain extnguished them be
fore they could do any damage, otherwise
the FIRE would have swept through to the
Common.
Although the space burned over is olly about
o uc.thrteth that of the Lynn fire. the loss will
be fully as great, if not greater than the shoe
citys-probably eight or ten million dollars.
2p.m.-The sun ha' been shining brightly for
an hour and the column OF smoke constantly
| grows smaller.
CHICAGO, Nov IS "A private message
from Boston at ten o'clock this morning
says a most dangerous Fee is raging in the
business portion OF tha: city which threatens
to sweep away q largo portion Of the same
district tina, was burned ia 1877 when the
loss was 500 100000. Tha dispatch states
further that it is estimated that the
loss already has reached five million dollars
CHICAGO, Nov. IS dispatch from
Boston timed 1870 a. m, says the fire is
| now believed to be under control.
NEW York. Nov. IS. "A special dispatch
from Boston says: The fire bells rang ou
through the driving rain al SIS this morn
| ing, and 10 less thar half an hour, there was
| foundation f r another Boston fire. The
flames were discovered in the mammoth
store building at the corner of Kingston and
| Bedford 5tres. Tai is q building hitherto
thought to be f,e-p7oof and recently built.
But notwithstanding this il burned like
finder box and the flames rose hundreds Of
feet into the air. The fire apparatus which
had first responded was wholly incapable of
handling the fire and they saw this fact very
plainly when the flimes began to leap up
aud out of the roof and windows towards
tina buildings On toe other side OF the
street and to tho bulldogs back OF
the mammoth structure On Rowe Place.
A second alarm vas sent in about $50 and
when the apparatus responded to this more
was needed. A little after o'clock third
alarm was sent cut and In half al hour
there was issued general alarm, which
brought apparatus from Cambridge, Somer-
Vile, and Chelsea. From the very start
there was little hope of the IRE being stop
ped before it had consumed several build
ings and the ffemen who had recently re
turned from the great Linn fire and wonder
ed bow 10 the world it could have gained such
Roadway, found out how it is Themselves
at 9:45 steamer No. and bcse No. , were
on the way from Taunton in answer TO Chief
Webber's call Shortly after it looked as
if the flames would advance without hind
rance up Kingston to Sumner street.
Brown, Durell & Co.'S fine block, which a
few minutes before had stood in all its mag
nifcence. was now heap OF glowing ruins,
upon whose edge stood q steamer, M aerial
ladder and hose carriage, which had been
abandoned in hot haste at the time the
building collapsed. The old building No.
80 Kingston street now began to light up
and the Branerd & Armstrong CompaDy's |
building at 80 was just catching. A group
of desperate fire fighters we're being forced |
TO recede inch by inch. Stories were E fl )at
of men who had been caught in the falling
walls and Of other fatal accidents, bat there
was no time to verify these reports. The !
building occupied by Bradford Thomas and
the Ames building were involved 10 the
general destruction. Eastward the fire,
thirty minutes later, had reached the Free.
man building on the corner of Lincoln and |
Bradford streets, while towards Washington
street, its limit at the Same time, $50, was !
Chauncey street. Just before 10 o'clock az.
sistauce reached the scene from Cambridge,
both in engines and hook and ladder trucks
From the u'diDg of Brown snd Dlrsll !
where The fire caught, it spread acro.s the
street, and back through the burning build
ing into Chauncey str ct. Ia few minutes it
had extended along Chauncey street on the
left hand side, eating into the building next
on the south. occupied By Cluett. Koon &