The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-03-25
AGAIN IN ASHES.

and Venerated Landmark, for a Third
Time Prey to the Devouring Element,
Entaiiing Loss of Ss25,OOO, Besides
Damage to Adjacent Property.
BosToN, March 20. Fire broke out
about o'clock yesterday morning in
fremont temple, on fremont street,
opposite the fremont house, and be-
fore noon the entire structure was
gutted, entailing loss roughly esti-
mated at S375, 600. Fireman Patrick
Dunn, Of Engine 26, had leg broken,
and another man, name unknown, is
said to have been seriously and perhaps
fatally injured.
Box S29 was rung in about 7:1O
o'clock. This is the special box of the
Parker house, and people pictured with
the ringing big hotel confagration
and all it's attending horrors 1t was
not the Parker house ablaze, but the
fremont temple, adjoining. The fire
in the temple had been discovered by
one OF the guests on the fourth floor of
the Parker house. He had first been
aroused by the smoke, and on going to
his window was startled by seeing
flames darting from the window 'front.'
ing him. He thought it was the hotel,
and smashing one of the signal boxes
on his floor, at once sent down the fire
alarm.
Pedestrians on fremont street had
noticed the smoke issuing from the up.
per story of the temple, and they sent
in an alarm from box 81, quickly fol-
lowing it with general alarm.
An employe OF, the Parker house
sounded the gongs of the different
hoors to arouse guests, and quickly
they poured out in great excitement.
When it WAS seen that there was no
immediate danger of the fire reaching
the hotel the guests proceeded to re-
move their trunks. The protective de-
partment did much to save the interior
of the house from the water that
poured down through the open stair
way. No mishaps Are reported to the
Parker house guests. The protective
department turned it's attention to th e
saving of carpets and furniture. Before
the fire department arrived six streams
were turned on the fire from stand
pipes in the Parker house, and Land
lord Whipple feels quite elated at the
work OF his employees in the assistance
rendered.
Through open windows in the upper
floors great volumes of smoke poured
from the burning building, which was
fiery furnace twenty minutes after
the first alarm.
The blaze poured from all the upper
windows threatening the Burnham
building and w. s. Buffers building
adjoining on fremont street, placing
the Parker house and the Park hotel
in danger in the rear, and alarming
the tiremen lest it should get down
among the rookeries on Province
court. The firemen ran lines of hose
up through the Parker house and the
Park hotel, and both buildings were
damaged by water.
At9;30 o'clock the fire was we'll under
control.
|The loss on the temple is variouslv
estimated at from 1926, 900 to s375, 900,
while the Parker house is believed to
have been damaged by water to the
extent of $4,000. Besides the Union
Temple church, Rev. DIR. c. Lorimer,
pastor, the following were among the
concerns occupying Offices in the lem
pie building: Bliss school of oratorv,
American Baptist missionary mission,
Home Mission society, Office of Won.
ems Voice and Loyal Women of Amer
ica. Union Temple church held their
Sunday services at the Mount Vernon
church on Ashburton place.
fremont temple, which has been one
OF the most conspicuous public build
ings OF Boston in the current genera
uon, stood on fremont street, opposite
the fremont house, and adjoining the
Parker house. Originally the structure
was widely known as the fremont the
ater, an old-timc resort for dramatic
entertainment for bygone generation.
Since 1868 it has been celebrated all
over the country as the largest Baptist
church in New England, if not in
America, and the headquarters of that
denomina tion. The object of taking
it for religious purposes was stated in
the original appeal for purchase money
to found free church in Boston, where
all persons, whether rich or poor,
without distinction of color or condi-
tlon, might worship" The price
paid for the place was s55, to
which Sl25,OOO was added for furnish
ing and remodeling. On December Z,
the new house was dedicated, but on
the night of March 81, 1872, the tie mple
was burued and John Hall, a citizen,
was killed, and George Estes, fireman
OF Engine No. Z, Charleston, had his
back broken and died shortly after
wards. The loss was Sl7s,365; insur-
ance, S45,244 A new building on the
old site was completed, however, in
December, 1878, at a cost of s1a6, 600.
On August "a, 1879, the building was
destroyed again by fire, but was
promptly rebuilt and opened on
October II, 1880, at cost of more than
sSao,oOo. The seating capacity was
equal to an audience of 1000 people.
Beneath this great hall was the mellon.
with seating capacity of 1000.
The fire originated in the organ loft
The definite cause is unknown, but it
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