The Press., 1889-12-05
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A Week of Fires.

The Lynn fire loss will reach less than $4,O0O,OOO. The portion of the city burned was by no means the best in architecture, being the oldest portion, and including the central railroad station and vicinity.
 Holders of insurance stocks had their Thanksgiving dinners spoiled by reports that a vast uncomfortable fire was raging in Bos- ton. First reports located it near Washington st., but its real place of origin was corner of Bedford and Kingston streets, little more than block south of the place of origin of s'the great Boston fire of 1872" There is little doubt that an electric wire caused the fret as several electric clocks were burned out at about the same time on Wednesday and conhagrations narrowly prevented. In this cese beyond doubt the fire smouldered unseen until it broke out. It was in region of substantial blocks, many of them of gran ite. The fire rioted in wild freedom, building after building dissolYing as if melted down by intense heat The falling walls crushed alike fire apparatus and fremen, several lives being lost. Help was sent in from outlying cities as far away as Worcester and New Bedford For time it seemed as if the record of the great fire would be beaten, but finally the progress of the fire was checked.
 The burned districts begin at Columbia street on the east and extend two blocks west ward, along Bedford street, to Chauncey street on the west; on the south side of Bed fond street the fire consumed the entire block bounded by Bedford, Kingston, Essex and Columbia streets, the entire block bounded by Bedford, Kingston and Chauncey streets and Rowe Place, and westward of this the buildings on Chauncey street from Bedford to Exeter Place. It also badly damaged the building on the southeast corner of Bedford and Columbia streets. North of Bedford street it consumed the buildings on both the northeast and northwest corners of Bedford and Kingston streets, and damaged the block at the corner of Bedford and Chauncey streets. The total loss will reach $3 ,000, 900.
 A terrible fire was that at Minneapolis on Saturday night. At ten o'clock there were upwards of eighty men, editors, comPositors and others, at work on the seventh floor of the Tribune building. Then came cry of fire, and 25 minutes later twelve to twenty lives had ended. The fire began on the third floor, and quickly closed elevator and stair way to egress Many got out by the fire es- cape some leaped to death from the windows, two fell while attempting to climb along tel egraph wire to its nearest supporting pole. One man, driven to loose his hold upon the fire escape by blast of flame, fell and knock ed of three other men below him, all being killed by the fall The owners of the build ing are much censured for not providing against such disaster.
 FIRE broke out in the old stockinet mill belonging to the Hartford Carpet Company's works at Thompsonville a little before mid- night on Thursday, and for time it seemed as if the whole village was endangered. Help was called for from Hartford and Springfield, calls which met prompt response, but the fire
 s.-l- &IH ment and nearly under control when the re- endorsements were in position to aid. It was 8 we'll fought fire, and the villagers felt re- lieved when 1t was conquered. Many roofs caught fire from the sparks and far reaching blaze, but only the one building was burned. It was mainly storehouse for stock and the entire damage to the company reaches about $2OO, ,000, with insurance of about seven eighths of amount of loss.
 In addition to these there were, during the week, more than the average number of fires of minor degree of importance.
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