The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-23

District and the Principal Sufferers.
BOSTON, May 15.-By the torch Of al
incendiary tonight over 100000 worth
of property is in ashes. over five hun
bred families Of the medium and poorer
classes. consisting Of about two thousand
people. are homeless. and many of them
who had time to save a portion Of their
household furniture are tonight sleeping
in tn open air. Women with babies in
their arms and little children huddled
close together, have only the sky for a
roof and the few mattresses saved from
the burned tenements for a bed and no
prospects Tor "a breakfast in the morn
ing
After 6 o'clock. the time for the work
shops and business places TO close, many
pathetic scenes were witnessed, fathers
returning 10 find their homes burned 10
the ground and no trace Of their wives
and little ones. Children. who had been
at work as cash boys and girls in the
big dry goods houses and other stores,
barred out from the streets where they
resided. could find no trace of their par
ents.
No Lives Lost.
The fire covered a space of twenty
acres and. as far as could be learned,
only six persons have been injured and
none fatally. The fire started in the
Boston league nall park. in a pile Of
lumber which was lying under the right
field bleachers. directly back of the first
base. In moment it had leaped out to
the seats and famed by a brisk breeze
swept towards the grand stand So
rapidly did the flames spread that be-
fore the occupants of the grand stand
realized IL the fire was upon them and
they were forced TO flee.
1t was several minutes before the fire.
men were at work. The left field bleach
ers were next ignited. Meanwhile the
sparks had fallen upon the houses on
Berlin-st. and the flames surged on
toward Tremont-st., reaching out TO the
right and left until the entire square be
tween the ball grounds and Tremont-st.
and extending north from Walpole to
Burke-st. was mass Of burning build
Ings. The Sherman kindergarten. a
brick structure. Obstructed the progress
Of the fire for only a moment and that.
too, was numbered among the structures
consumed. The buildings on the south
side of Walpole-st. were soon burned
The flames sho- down toward Coventry
st. on that side Of fremont nearest the
ball grounds. They swept on in this d.
rectiOn for three squares as far as
Burke-st. deyouing the homes Of men
and women. who were working with
frantic energy TO get out their house
hold goods, and even ebfore they could
remove those TO safe place the walls
burned and crumbled down.
Panic Among Tenants.
At o'clock the entire block along the
west side Of Tremont-st from walpole
TO Burke was a brilliant mass Of flames.
which swept across to the opposite side
and soon engulfed the buildings for four
blocks. By this time the residents of the
tenements for nearly half mile around
had became alarmed and were moving
all their property into the streets and
seeking for places OF safety. So rapidly
did the fire eat its way. however. that
those in the blocks adjoining fremont
St did not have time to save their house
hold effects and barely escaped with
their lives.
BY o'clock the conhagration had
crossed fremont to Cabot-st Shortly
after s o'clock several steamers arrived
from Lynn, Salem. Beverly, Brooklyn
and Lawrence and every effort was
made to stop the fire at Cabot-st. But
It could not be checked and not until
it had burned from Cabot-st. half way
through 10 Werwicl<-st. and north to
Burke-st. was the limit Of the burned
district on the southeast side Of the ball
grounds reached.
While the firemen were fighting on this
side, the fire was spreading from Wal.
pole toward MilfOrd-place on the south
west side of the ball grounds and in
half an hour all buildings in this block
was in ruins. The fire burned on until
IL reached Ruggles-st.. at one point and
consumed the houses on both sides Of
Chapel-st. and laid low the structures on
Sudbury-st. At Ruggles-st. on the west
and CabOt-st. on the southeast, the fire
was practically stopped and at 1880 the
fire under control and in no danger
Of spreading further.
The Principal Sufferers.
1t is estimated that about one hundred
buildings have been burned and about
five hundred families rendered homeless.
The houses Of ladder II and hose on
Tremont-st. were destroyed. Alderman
Bryant's residence on walpole-st and
his store on Tremont-st were also des-
troyed Among the other business places
leveled were:
J. ]. Mcnamara, wines and liquors,
Cabot-st.; Daniel Bernhard & Co. Ire
mont. liquors; Sterling provision store.
Sterling-st.; Gray's photographing estab-
nshment. Tremont-st.; Martin Regan, IN
dertaker. Tremont-st-: BIiImore's block of
Offices, etc, Tremont-st.; s. McElrick,
provisions, Tremon-st.; Councilman
ConnOrs lost his house on Tremon-st.
and many OF his effects.
A special meeting Of the board Of al
derman was called this evening TO
take action upon the exigencies of
the case, and it was voted
TO use the surplus Of $4,000 now held by
the trustees of the Johnstown flood, and
which was collected for the sufferers by
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