Police Records And Recollections Or Boston By Daylight And Gaslight for Two
Police Records And Recollections Or Boston By Daylight And Gaslight for Two
Edward Hartwell Savage
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1. On throwing open the window-blinds of my house, which was in Charter Street, I saw that the heavens were lighted up by a fire apparently somewhere near Ilaymarket Square. I immediately threw on an old fire suit, and started out. On reaching Haymarket, I fount^ the Square and adjoining streets filled with people; but the fii'c was fui'thcr on up Sudbury Street, and consuming several wood buildings on the north side of Sudbiu-y, between Adams and Hawkins Streets. I elbowed my way through the c...rowd till I reached the fire, where I found the people so densely huddled together that it was necessary to shut off the streets. 168 POLICE RECOLLECTIONS. An additional force of police, with ropes, were soon on the ground, and the spectators were forced back sufficiently far to give the firemen room to work. The police had hardly accomplished their task, when a chimney near the corner of Adams and Sudbury Street, losing the support of surrounding timbers, fell upon the front wood walls, which were still standing, and the whole burning mass came tumbling into Sudbury Street, burying sev- eral firemen under the rubbish on the very place where a large number of spectators had so lately stood, and where I stood myself but a moment be- fore.
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