Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — GLOBE THEATER BURNS. [ARTICLE]

GLOBE THEATER BURNS.

Boston’s Famous Play-lloase a Prejr to Flame* for the Second Time. Fire at Boston originating in the Globe Theater. Monday night, caused tile destruction of the theater and nearly all the other buldings in the square bounded by Washington and Essex streets, Hayward place and Harrison avenue. The total damage is not known, but will reach into the millions. The fire was discovered in the coatr room of the theater, and in fifteen minutes the entire building wa3 in flame 1. The building is so loca ed that it was impossible for the firemen to enter it, or to reach the flames except tn one side, and in the rear was an old section filled with old buildings which would go very quickly if once ignited. Across the' street from the tneater a-e three largo hotels, and almost a panic existed among the guts's, for at this point Washington street is not more than forty feet wide, and the heat from the theater fire was intense. Fifty fire engines Eoured water upon the flames, but so ai d was the fire to get at that no perceptible effect could be seen. At 2:10 there were five explosions of considerable force, which scattered the embers of the fire skyward and threw down the wall between the theater and the store next south toward Essex street. The whole block seemed doomed, and in five minutes the square bounded by Hayward place,"Essex,street, and Harrison avenue was a solid mass of flames. The theater building covers 15,510 square feet of land. In this square thcie are fifteen buildings besides the Globe Theater on Washington street. The explosions were caused by the calcium tanks in the tty%»ter. At 3 o'clock the fire was control by the falling V a groat party wall which served to smother the furnace within the eiuare. inhere was still the danger of the explosions, but anxiety was soon allayed\in that respect. There is not a building of the dozen or more in the square that is uninjured and with only ihree or four exceptions not even the walls will bo saved. Among the largest losers by tho fire are the Bryant & Stratton Business College: R. T. Almy & Co., retail clothing: Thcmas White & Co., Flinn & Mahoney, European agents: S. C. Chase & Co., rubber goods; Hotel Pierpont; Burleigh's trunk store: A. T. Regan, shoos: Leacho's sewing machine parlors, Willcox & Gibbs, sewing machines: A. F. Robinson & Co., and others. Tho Globe Theater is the second theater of that name on tho same site