Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
1889 - $10,000,000 FIRE! A CITY GOES UP IN FLAMES. Lynn, Mass. Desolated. - Boston Subscribes Nearly a Million Dollars For the Sufferers.

Lynn, Mass, the city of shoes, was visited Tuesday afternoon by the greatest fire in its history and with two exceptions the conflagration is the most disastrous which ever visited New England. The exceptions are the great Boston fire of 1872, which destroyed between three and four hundred millions of dollars worth of property, and the Portland fire of 1866, which caused a loss of between ten and twelve millions. The fire started at 11.55 A. M. and raged over eight hours

DEVASTATING A SQUARE MILE
of the business section of the city and caused a loss estimated at ten millions. In fact the greater part of Ward 4 is wiped out as regards the important shoe manufacturing blocks and prominent places of business.

The fire started in Mower's wooden building on Almont street, over the boiler and spread with such rapidity that the excellent fire department of the city was powerless to cope with it. For eight hours the flames had full sway, the efforts of the fireman and citizens seemingly being of no avail, although they did valiant work.

Aid arrived from Boston, Salem, Marblehead and the surrounding towns, but their united efforts seemed to have little effect on the hurricane of flames.

After the fire had been in progress two hours everybody declared it would not stop until it reached the ocean, and so it proved to be.

BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED OUT.
Four daily newspapers are burned out, the Item, Bee, Press and News, three afternoon papers and one morning paper; three national banks, Central, Security and First National, together with the Lynn Institution fro Savings, located in the first national block, are all wiped out. Twelve of the finest shoe blocks in the city are in ruins and about twenty-five stores.

The number of laboring people thrown out of work is estimate at 8,000.

$500,000 FOR THE SUFFERERS.
A meeting of the citizens of Boston was held the next afternoon, Mayor Hart presiding, to take action for the relief of the sufferers by the Lynn fires. A relief committee, consisting of a number of prominent citizens, was appointed; and $500,000 subscribed on the spot.

LYNN GOES TO WORK.
LYNN, Mass. - Every train brings hundreds of visitors to view the ruins. Nearly all the leading business men are waiting for the bricks to cool, and specifications for new buildings at this writing are in order. On the site of the principal business offices may be found small wooden structures, with their signs out.

The Lynn Daily Star was the first to erect its little 7x9 office on the site of its former office with a sign - "Daily Star office, all ready for business."

The Carthage Blade
Carthage, North Carolina
December 5, 1889

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