The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-06

blockade was got around. Peck and Bishop had ten trucks engaged in trans ferins baggage to the Cedar Hill sta tion, from which point early trains were sent out over the Hartford and Shore Line divisions.
 The first through train to leave the Union station was the White mountain express, which went north at about the usual time. 11:l5. Afterwards the trains went nearly on time all day. Wednesday night at G clock n freight arrived at the Webster street crossing of the Northampton, and attached to it were four passenger coaches. These coaches were used yesterday morning in making up the usual 1-45 train, which went out from that point with about fifty passengers, who were sent up from Union depot on the Winchester avenue line. The early morning trains and the night trains from the north and east were sent down to Railroad avenue and transfer of passengers and baggage made at Grand avenue. The passengers on the Washington express, south bound, were transferred in hacks and a train was made up and dispatched from Union depot, and the same was done in in the case of the Owl trains.
 Tt was the hardest and hottest fire that 1t has been my mission to fight in years" said Chief Kennedy yester- day morning, land property owners in the vicinity can congratulate them- selves that there was not a strong wind blowing, for if there had been l imagine that there would have been number of other walls standing with nothing in the interior except charred timbers. Even as 1t was it required hard work to prevent adjoining build ings catching and laying this portion of the city desolate. All things considered the fire could not have taken place under more favorable circum- stances"
 The f1remen continued the work yes terday morning and all the forenoon streams of water were playing on the ruins to quench every vestige of fire which might remain in the debris.
 The workmen came across a quantity of cannon fire crackers which had not exploded, but the only reason was that "llCl CNluCHIiy lV&ShSb IiASh DSioAS the fuses could ignite the explosive. The fuse of nearly every cracker was partially burned off.
 Strange as it may appear there were a large number of persons in the city who were unaware of the fire until this morning, especially those residing in distant parts of the city.
 Owing to the obstruction to the run ming of trains the mails from the north were greatly delayed yesterday morn
 ing, and in order to secure the mail bags the postoffice officials at g o'clock secured an express wagon and drove to Cedar Hill station and brought them in.
 | It has now been ascertained that the fire was caused by the careless use of sky rocket. A man set up rocket in the street in front of the market and not waiting to place it securely up- right, he lighted it and stepped to one side. Just as 1t went off it fell partly over and shot straight into the fire works stand of J. B. Judson, and the entire stock of fireworks were tgnited, and also MT. Williams right opposite. Jacob Broschart, lealer in meats, said yesterday afternoon that his loss would reach from $5,OOO to $6,OOO and he has no insurance. He will locate tempo rarily at 59 Union street.
 MT. Maylinger will reopen in a few days at his new building on Crown street.
 Although the tracks were cleared yesterday morning, a number of men were at work during the afternoon. About one hundred men were at work with shovels also clearing up the Geb ris in Chapel and Union streets. Loose | portions of the structur", which were in danger of falling, were pulled down with ropes, including several chimr eys, which fell With crash.
 The Italian population, or at least the | inhabitants of Union and Fair streets, supplied themselves with enough pro- visions yesterday morning from the | City market fire to last them several weeks. It was hardly daylight in the railroad cut yesterday morning when
 an army of Italian women made their appearance in the cut and found their way down under the ruins of the market. They scented roast meats, and under the stream from one of the lines
 of hose they dug in the rubbish and rooted out now and then nice tender chickens. The Italian women plucked the birds industriously and soon filled their baskets. The poultry belonged to the marketmen, and when the floor of the market gave away the chickens went down into the cut with the rest of the debris. Beside the chickens the in- dustrious women loaded their baskets with hams, shoulders and other meats which were found in the cut. One wo- man appeared from the dark passage with her fingers through the ropes of three hams, which were dug out of the l heap. They were not molested, as the meat was in the way and blocked the railroad tracks, and the Italians were l allowed to carry off as much as thex pleased
 No New York mail was received in Boston from early Wednesday night until yesterday afternoon. No such de lay had been occasioned since the great blizzard of March, 1888, and it was all owing to the delay of the trains at this city.
 "Can any little boy here," asked the xs-sA