The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-18
BOSTON BURNING.
The Most Terrible Conilagratlon of Recent
Years--It Broke cut About -Four O'Cloch
From an Explosion of Fireworks
TwenIX-ElNc Ilves Lost.

The Most Terrible Confagratlon of Recent
Years-It Broke cut About -Four O'Cloch
From an Explosion of Fireworks
Twenty-Five Lives Lost.
BosToN, March II. "A fire which bids
fair to overtop the memorable confla-
grafton which laid acres of struc.
lures in ashes years ago, started Friday
evening, and is still in progress. 1t is
characterized by appalling loss of hu.
man life, while the loss of property
will run away up in the millions.
More than twenty-five persons have
been burned to death, and probably
twice that number have been fatally or
very seriously injured.
The fire, which broke out about
o'clock p. m, was caused by an explo-
sion of fireworks in factory. Several
explosions followed the first, and the
fire spread with alarming rapidity.
The United States hotel, an historic
ground. The old New Colony passenger
depot, now used by express companies,
was soon in flames and the fire was cat
ing rapidly to the north and west,
toward Washington street. 1t got be-
yond the control of the fire depart.
ment in very few minutes, and tele-
grams were sent to the neighboring
cities for help, companies from numer-
GUS adjacent towns responding to the
call.
The fire assumed such dimensions
that Gov. Russell ordered out the First
and Ninth regiments of the national
guard, to preserve order and establish
fire lines. Scores of burned and injured
people were taken into the Emergency
hospital, in the United States Hotel
block on Beach street, but that building
caught fire, adding to the scene of hor-
ror. The board of aldermen was hastily
summoned to meet at City hall to take
such action as might be necessary, and
it is impossible at this writing to state
accurately the number of persons killed
or injured or to estimate with accuracy
the amount of property loss,
A rough estimate of the loss places it
as high as So, OOO,O 600 At 730 the fire
was declared to be under control. 1t
has been impossible as yet to recover
the bodies of many of the persons who
are known to have perished.
At Z o'clock Saturday evening" No
vember o, 1872, fire started. and in
fifteen hours destroyed $50, 900, 900 worth
of property and dozen or more human
lives. Then the fire broke out in the
engine-room of the large dry goods
house of Tibbetts, Baldwin & Davis,
corner of Kingston and Sumner street
The flames soon swept across Sumner
TO Winthrop avenue, down King street
and both directions of Sumner street.
Engines were hurried from Cambridge
aud the neighboring cities, but the
flames had gained such headway as to
be beyond control, and spread with
furious force in every direction. by
midnight they had reached the wharves
and were licking up the shipping in the
harbor.
Not until 1 o'clock next day was the
progress of the conflagration
checked. The district burned over was
bounded by Sumner, Federal, Broad,
Center, Water, Washington and Bed
ford streets, the wholesale business
center of the city. Nine hundred and
thirty business houses and firms were
burned out and sixty dwelling and
lodging houses.