New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26

Victor factory, were saved, as the wind
blew the flames away from them.
The fire then leaped across High
land av. to the B. j. Mulligan shoe
factory, in Green Place, off Phelps ST.,
which was soon ruined, as was a group
of business buildings at Boston and
Essex SITS, including the drug store Of
T. A. Roche, the store Of James
/ Murphy, the home and variety store
of Mrs. Higgins, the Winberry Build
/ ing and several smaller stores and the
Jennings block, at Boston and Fow-
/ Ter SITS.
Spreading flames next attacked three
large apartment houses, occupied by
/ twenty families and owned by Jacob
Jarnes, and from these jumped to the
/ Clark shoe factory, the futile Building
and stables, at Federal and Boston
sts. the McGlone store, at Boston and
| Federal sts.; the automobile shop Of
r. II. Robson and the Norton House.
/ The first area Of the fire was on the
west side of the city at the foot of
. Gallows Hill, and territory about two
miles long and more than half mile
wide, extending from Proctor and
I Boston SITS. to jefferson ST., was de-
vastated. In this district are Proctor.
/ Pope, Broad, Hawthorne, Winthrop,
Mount Vernon, Endicott and Peabody
sts., in which practically all the
structures were destroyed
In the mean time falling embers
started fires in South Salem and the
more exclusive residential part of the
city. All the available fire fighting APP
paratus was in the historic Gallows
Hill section, where it had responded to
general alarm, and South Salem was
left without protection as one build
ing after another burst into flames.
For several hours the fire in this
district was confined to a small oval,
extending from Porter ST., on the
north, to Hancock ST., on the south,
and from the canal to Lafayette St.
As evening approached, however, the
flames spread in all directions, de-
stroying hundreds of residences in the
district, including many handsome
homes in Lafayette ST., the most fash
ionsble thoroughfare in Salem.
The city orphan asylum, in Lafayette
St, sheltering $50 persons, was de-
stroyed. All the children were taken
by the nuns to a place of safety.
Salem Hospital was the next prey Of
the flames. The patients were re-
moved to safety on stretchers. in the
excitement a daughter was born to
Mrs. Rosetti, an inmate.
Up Lafayette st. swept the flames,
making a clean path from the State
Normal School north to Cedar and
Everett SITS. From this point the front
of the fire moved like a huge sickle
across Salem and Park SITS. to the wa
ter front.
There was no apparatus here to
check the flames, which licked up
scores of tenements and high wooden
apartment houses. st. Joseph's Church,
a huge new brick structure. with lofty
twin towers, and the adjoining school
and convent buildings, recently erect
ed at a cost of S250,000, made ready
fuel.
At the start the water pressure was
: low. and when the fight had become des-
perate great water main near the
{ Beverly Bridge broke, and the firemen
were practically helpless.
Calls for assistance were sent to
nearby cities and an enormous quanti-
ty of apparatus, ranging from the most
! antiouated tubs from towns and villa
ges to the new high pressure automo-
/ bile engine of the Manchester, y. H.,
Fire Department, responded.
The Manchester engine undertook to
pump water from the ocean. Boston,
/ Lynn and other cities sent apparatus
and details Of police, but the combined
efforts of the greatest aggregation OF
fire fighting machines ever seen here
were futile, and when darkness fell re-
/ sort was had to dynamite.
Several blocks in the path OF the
flames we're blown up in the hope OF
checking their progress, but the tickle
wind that shifted four times each time
carried the destruction in new direc-
tion