Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-30
BOSTON ABLAZE.
A Eve Million Dollar fire IN the
Bu-inc,, Portion Of The City
vi Boston.
Coming SO Soon After the Lynn Con
ilngration, many fire insurance
companies will suspend.


Boston, Nov. 2S.-The most di>as-
trous fire which Bottom has had since
1872, which in property more than
rivals The great fire at Lynn Tuesday.
broke out at S O'cluck q. III. to-day in
the 6ix>story granite hnilding owned
by Jordan, Mar-h & Co, aud occupied
by Brown, DurrelI & Co, dealers in
dry goods Oh Bedford st., cnrner Of
Kingston. The great fire If 1872 broke
out vt the corner ri Kingston and Sum
mers SIS, and the alarm o. to-dsy's
fire WA rurg In from tie -nm" box
which did duty the night of Nov. 8.
lS72, whru the fire tiend was turned
loose, consuming near'y slOl ora eco
WORTH oC property. 7. nr.t alarm
ruua in tu-dar was iumD6iIt"Iy frI-
lowed by nae fir-t r,nral nh-u i'm
H0,tou slDrr lS72. To-day. cpulllgva
li0u ragged nr twn hou-s qni burned
OVER two rrr : # territory. ,ov"rsf by
mrgnif'euI hrijGipg.. The lp-- i.
now estimated al So 0000a0. Tue fire
wa di-clyerrd Dy lyt'pr carrier Nh,
n tired tn flames bursting from the
top Of rhe Brown building tg which IL
originated. This lelt.r carrier notified
the nearest police officer who made the
first alarm. Il ecsme a rafn' that
the fire would become large;a general
alarm was sent out. This was sonn ;nl-
lowed by calls upon all the netghbor.
ing citi 5 and towns for assistance.
The fire was soon pouring from al the
windows, and st $50 O'Clock they had
-Ise,d 10 the Shoe and Leather Ex-
cltsnge huilding and another granite
building. From Brown x Gus on.
Bedford stree, thu flames swept in.
great masses pclo,s Bedford street to
the opposite corner, thence across
Kingston street along Bedford to
Chauucey street. where II was stopped
in the Il re of Farley, Harvey & Co.,
the UPPER story of whicn were burned.
Three stores along Chsuncey street
toward sumner were burned. On the
south side If Bedford street the II lmrs
jumped across Kingston street, from
the hot blaze from Brown, Darrell &
Co.'S big sandstone bniidiug, owned
by +. l.. Ames and occupied by Tay-
lor Bros, and this was consumed. The
great granite building known n the
Neyius block, at the corner Of Chaun-
cey street, was the next victim for the
fiapes. and the entire block end
around Rowe Place and Kingston
street was consumed. After crossing
Chsuncey street and burning all the
stores which are enclosed 10 Exeter
Place. A email street running from
Harrison avenue to Chsuncey street,
the fire was get under contral. Ac-
cording to the most reliable informa-
tion the losses of those insurance COM
panies whuse agents could be found
aggregate s2,5S7,0OO. This tire, com
ing as 1t does on top Of the
great blaze at Lynn is a.
crushing blow to many Of the smaller
insurance companies, and 1t is not
at all unlikely that 1t will cause the
Of many Of them. The
burnt district begins at Columbia
street on the east and extends two
blocks westward along Bedford street
10 Cbauncy street on the west on both
sides Of Bedford street. The fire con-
sumed the entire block bounded by
Bedford, Kingston. Exeter and Colum'
bia streets. Westward of this the en-
tire block bounded by Bedford, Kings
ton and Chauncy streets and Rove
place, and westward of this the build
ings on Chauncey street from Redford
10 Exter. IL also badly damaged the
on the southeast corner Of
Bedford and Columbia streets. North
Of Bedford street IL consumed the
on the northeast and north
west corner OF Bldiord and Kingston
streets aud managed the block at the
corner of Bedford and Cbauncey
streets.
Within au hour after the first alarm
was sounded the whole structure of
Brown a. Co. was in ruins. Flames
we're dsrting from doors and windows
and the interior Of the block was a
furnace, dry goods and other
materials with which the
floors were packed, burned toa white
heat. Granite erumbled aud iron
pirders melted like ice. Streams fror'
. npiu,s we're evaporated before they
the fire. "Tbe walls are fall.
ing back.n The crowd sufged back
b ,ck for their very lives. Startled by
,h. sho,,t fha firpmen dropi ed their |