The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-29
AcreSBurned
A GREAT FIRE AT BOSTON,
Over Ten Million Dollars Worth
of Magnificent Business
Blocks
Are Nova Mass OfSmOking Ruins
in the Wholesale District.
AID FROM TWENTY CITIES,
Together with Il Blessed Rain,
Save tho City when the
Case Seemed Hopeless.
AID FROM TWENTY CITIES,
A Rude Thanksgiving Awakeulng-A
Stubborn Blaze Following the Great
Fire al Lynr-Splendld "Flre
Proof" BuIIdIOgs Destroyed
Like Chat before the
WInd-TIle Fire Of
'79 Recalled.

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BosroS, Nov. 9S.-The fire bells rang
out through driving rain ats;l5 this
morning, and in less than half an hour
there was foundation for another great
Bston fire, TheAames were discovered
iu the mammoth store building at the
corner Of Keystone and Bedford streets.
This isa building hitherto thoughtto be
fre.prooi and recently built, but not.
withsanding this 1t burned like a tinder
box, and the flames rose hundreds OF
feet into the air. The fire apparatus
which had first responded was wholly
incapable Of holding the fire and they
saw this fact very plainly when the
flames began to leap UP and out OF the
roof and windows towards the buildings
on the other side OF the street and TO
the buildings back OF the mammoth
structure on Roe place.
A GENERAL ALARM.
A second alarm was sent In about $3.50
aud when the apparatus responded to
this, more was needed. A little after 0
o'clock u third alarm was sent out and
in half an hour there was issued a gen.
epl alarm, which brought apparatus
from Cambridge, Somerville and Ohel.
sea.
From the very start there was little
hope Of the fire being stopped before II
hud consumed several buildings, aud
the iirumtn who had recently returned
llom the great Lynn fire, and wondered
how it could have gained such headway,
found out out how II was themselves.
AT y:l5 steamer No. and hose No. 9
were on the way from Trenton In an.
SwtE tn Chief Weller's call.
Shortly aiterO II looked as though the
,lIants would advance without hlndrance
up Kingston to Summer street. Brown,
Durrell 4 Co.'s fine block, which q few
minutes before had stood In all Its mag.
nillrenCe, was now heap Of glowing
ruins, upon whose edge stood a steamer
and TN aerial ladder aud 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 Brainard's
aud Armstrong & Co.'s building, at 35,
WIS just catching,
FINE FidIlTRRs FolLRD.
A Agroup Of desperate fire fighters were
being forced to reCede inch by inch.
Stories were a0oat Of men who had been
caught in falling walls and OF other fatal
accidents, but there was no timo to
verify these reports. The buildings oc.
Cupird by BRADFORD, Thomas 4 Ames
wgleinyOlved il general destruction.
Eastward the fire, thirty minutes later,
had reached the Freedman's buildingon
the corner Of Lincoln and Bradford
streets, while towards Washington street
its linIit was ut the same time $3.50 was
ChaunCey street.
II was reported that a dead body had
been taken out Of premises Of Cluett,
Keen Il Co., "A Chauncey street, just
before 10 o'clock assistance reached the
scene from Cambridge, both In enginet
aud hook and ladder trucks. From the
building Of Brown 4 Durrell, where the
lire caught, 1t spread across the street
and back through the burning building
Into ChaunCey street. In aiew minutes
/ had extended up Chauncey street or
both sides, later into the building mex
on South, occupied By Cluett, Keen q
20. In leHs than ten minutes the tlamel
were tearing into the next mammoth
stone building, occupied by Williams 4
Go, on the next tCornersouth. From thI
other side II caught almost at once upor
the buildings on Rowe place, and thet
wind favored the Bupposilion that thl
whole south cove and the wholesale
district were doomed.
A SERIOUS OUTLOOK,
Already every building had gone irou
Bedford street alongl Kingston an,
Chaunccy streets, and the flames wer
eating up all those on The south side o
the Rowe Place. On the east side Of tn
ChOunCey street buildings, all OF thv
mammoth structures are occupied a
Wholesale houses In the dry goods AM
fancy goods trade, and every endGavo
was made to keep them from catching
This endeavor was futile, however, ant
The tlAuts flushed on In both directions
The large retail dry goods establishment
oil jordan, Marsh 4 Co., at Washington
aud Arch streets, were burned, aud th,
Globe Theatre, at Hayward Place AMI
Washington street, were destroyed.
Another dispatch says the spread 0
!he flames was 90 rapid when the Or
broke out In the Shoe aud Leather Ex
GhNngp, that those on the lower loO
hai barely time 10 remove their vulu
able papers. Three alarms aud q genera
alATm were rung In rapid BuCCessfDn, bu
lhe tire department officials realizing III
danger and lmpoSslblllty Of belug able I
cope with lhU rapid spread Of Gre, sen
IelrgtamS TO all Of the large towns ant
Mllvs within radius oil llity lhllOs irou
Boston, urgently calling Iof help, TIL
ntc up to $50 was confined very nearl
70 The district composed OF Bedford
UlhEtOh aud OhRunCey streets, Wit
Ihp streets branching from them.
was mostly filled With wholesale dr.
goodS and other Wholesale estAbllBt
mvhls, but little retail business bVln
uo0e In that Vicinity.
II WaS impossible 10 got llSl Of thos
Ouihel Out ut that time. Aa near {
could bu asCVFlalned At 1880 o'Cloc
SSpven blocks had been destroyed. I'll
nte then seemed 10 be somewhat undO
HhuoI, The out Of town fire tompAhiI
Vveon arriving and doing effective WOfI
Al Tue GlUbu lhuRltv kFanCes Wilson
Nmpahy were plAylugthe H0Olah, Y an
Wy Nll Their costumes and gOeheIy, II
SuqtN excitement prevailed, and II
,e'ueh we're greatly halnpeted by Il
oc,,. oS ,a.alIoSne@ Of the streets and Y
uLRssED RAIN,
MI, tnG ElTemCn were aided BY q pOutt