Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-12-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GREAT FIRE IN AMERICA. TREMENDOUS LOSS OF PROPERTY. 200 FAMLIES HOMELESS.  A telegram from New York on Tuesday says —An enormous fire is raging in the town of Lynn. Massachusetts, and alrealy a line of buildings, half a mile in length, has been destroyed, including all the newspaper offices of the place and thirty-five shoe factories. The fire was gaining ground, and the firemen had commenced to blow up the buildings with dynamite, so as to isolate the fire if possible. The horror of the scene was intensified by the explosion of a boiler which caused the death of four people. Firemen and militiamen are hurrying to the fire from Boston r.nd all the neighbouring towns. The Boston firemen have taken with them engines ot the most approved I type, which will prove more effective than the comparatively primitive extinguishing appara- j tus of the smaller places. The militiamen! render great service by keeping the crowds at a safe distance from the fire and prevented j pillage. The streets of the town are filled with j people4whose„homes have been destroyed. If the I dynamite operations do not prove effective, I hardly anything else can save the place from almost complete destruction. I A later telegram from New York says :—The great fire at Lynn has destroyed 120 factories, ' and 142 houses. Two hundred families are homeless, and eight thousand families out of I I work lffie Mayor has appealed for aid in reieving the distress.  There has been a sharp shock of earthquake felt at Oran, Algeria. It lasted ten seconds, the oscillations being from east to west. Early on Thursday morning the horribly mutilated remains of a man were found on the railway near Four Oaks Park Station. The death is apparently a case of suicide, and the man is believed to be a well-known blacksmith, The Chromele Rome correspondent writes: Monsignor Satelli, in his mission to Ireland, will be accompanied by Father Howlett, a young Irish priest, who was a pupil of the Eclesiastical Academy of Nobles in Rome, of which institution Monsignor Satelli is president. The steamship Santiago, which was bound from New York to Hull, has been destroyed by , fire at sea. The crew and passengers wqre rescued by the the ship Fuller. The Santiago was a fine vessel belonging to the Wilson line, of Hull, her gross tonnage being over 4,000. The loss amounts to 325,000. The Guion Line Royal mail steamer Arizona, from New York, arrived at Queenstown and reports that a passenger named William Davenport, aged 40 yeses, and a native of Manchester, committed suicide by jumping overboard. Ile sank before any effort could be made to save him. Davenport leaves a wife and several children in Manchester. Early on Thursday morning, the large cornmill of Messrs. Grew and Co., at Greenwich, situated by the wateiside, caught fire, and sOOll the whole interior was a mass of flames, which lighted up the river and the country for miles round. Engines from all parts of South London hastened to the scene, but the fire was only subdued after ten hours' hard work. The building consisted of eight storeys, measuring 70 by 45  feet. The damage is very' great. At the Hull Police Court, on Thursday, Wm. Harman, landlord of the "B Shari" public-house, was fined £5O and costs, or in default two months' imprisonment, under the Betting Houses Act, for keeping a betting house. Defendant pleaded guilty. Nine men who were arrested at the same time as the landlord were discharged. A sowar of the First Bombay Lancers, stationed at Deese, ran amuck, and shot dead Colonel Arthur R. Fleyland, commandant of th J regiment, and two native officers. Colonel Heyland has seen 31 years' service. He took part in the Afghan war in 1879-80 as brigade. major and as deputy assistant quartermastergeneral; and was in the march to Candahar with the force under Major-General Phayre. He was mentioned in the despatches, and reeqivesl a medal. Colonel Heyland served with the Mob Valley Expedition in 1884, and with the Burmese Expedition in 1886, being slightly wounded in an engagement on the 12th of December. For this service he received the , medal and clasp From further details of the rescue by the ship A. J. Fuller of the passengers and crew of the steamer Santiago, which was burned at sea, it appears that on the afternoon of the 20th inst., the attention of those on board the A. J. Fuller I was attracted by a glare in the sky, and at seven , o'clock they overhauled the Santiago, which I was enveloped in flames from stem to stern. Flash liFhts of distress were observed from boats in the vicinity, all of which, to the number of four, were overhauled, and the occupants, numbering 59 souls, officers, passengers, and crew, including a little child only 14 months old, were rescued. They had been in the open boats all the previous night, and several invalid passengers were among them. Several of the crew . of the Santiago have been pattially, and one • totally, blinded by the fire.  ,