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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1872
Page
1
A blaze raged through nearly eight hundred buildings leaving 12,000 workers unemployed. Banks and insurance houses suffered heavy losses with firms offering aid. Officials deem a financial crisis unlikely and say the U.S. Treasury faces no losses.
London audiences express substantial sympathy for Boston after the devastating fire. Relief committees form in several cities to ship sustenance to sufferers. Tonight meetings will adopt resolutions backing America and Boston as the nation endures a period of adversity.
The liabilities of Bowles Bros American bankers in this city are unknown due to suspension. Losses by the firm will fall chiefly upon American tourists in Europe.
The Williams & Guyon steamship Nevada, en route from Liverpool to New York, returned to Queenstown due to deranged machinery after departing Sunday.
The Boston blaze is fully extinguished with total losses around one hundred million dollars. About thirty million linked to local insurers may yield a 50 cent dollar dividend. The fire wrecked sixty acres, destroyed seven hundred eight buildings, and left 12,000 workers unemployed. Thieves were caught amid arson reports. theaters closed and candles used as power fails. Rebuilding plans underway though exact loss lists remain partial and delayed.
A long scroll details numerous fire insurance companies with capital and asset figures, followed by a noon Board of Aldermen meeting establishing aid for fire victims. A Relief Committee is empowered to protect property and assist those in need, with Convention expenses borne by the city. Fanueil Hall is set for a temporary post office, streets near the burns closed, and city gratitude to out-of-town fire crews. Trains bring crowds as military presence grows and Bank of North America reopens with bonds secured. Insurance offices coordinate settlements with New York and other cities.
The Boston blaze shut markets and then activity returned as cotton traders paused. In Arkansas, Thomas killed Tucker during a cowhide hunt in Franklin county and was captured, likely executed. In Helena, Martin Reid and McDonough quarreled in a saloon. McDonough died and Reid was wounded.
City officials announce a nighttime public gathering to address the Boston disaster and its impact. The trial of Rev. Gilbert H. Robertson began at 10 o clock. A mild epizootic is present with about 150 Louisville cases and 80 to 100 in Jeffersonville. The oil streetcars and Express remain unaffected.
A Chamber of Commerce meeting in New York discussed aiding Boston fire victims. A ten member committee was formed to visit the fire scene and push for a Board of Engineers to intervene in severe blazes. Insurance offices reported losses by various New York companies, listing sizable individual and company deficits.
In Chicago a large Board of Trade gathering united to aid Boston after a disaster. Mayor Medill chaired, Rev. Laird Collier spoke, and Gov. Bross read resolutions pledging immediate action. Subscriptions quickly totaled about $100,000 with leaders like Geo. M. Pullman and Wm. B. Ogden giving substantial amounts. Committees were formed to coordinate funds across trades.
Philadelphia observes the funeral of Major General Gordon Meade with a vast civic and military procession. Prominent figures including Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Grant, and Porter attend, as 500 US troops guard the route from Meade’s residence to Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Reports from Madrid Paris Constantinople and Berlin detail emancipation plans in Cuba and Puerto Rico, miner explosions in Monceaux and political shifts in the Paris National Assembly. The Levant Herald suspension and slave trade in Tripoli to Constantinople are noted alongside Gladstone and Sumner’s London moves and Bismarck’s constitutional reform proposals.
A tense meeting reports heavy cattle and grain concerns in Boston with a fear of losses for holders. Wheat fell from 1.051 to 1.0234 and corn dropped as offers appeared. The Finance Committee and Mayor met behind closed doors as insurers warn of higher rates and possible withdrawal by foreign firms.
Reports describe heavy pressure on Secretary Boutwell to aid New York money markets amid stock gambler fears. Knox travels to Boston to inspect banks. no banks reportedly involved. The President of Merchants Bank of Boston says no bank panic if banks stay firm. Treasury losses reportedly none from a recent fire. The Washington Daily Patriot announces suspension after two years as a Democratic journal and offers its materials for sale. Georgia Governor Smith invites Western and Southern governors to discuss a canal project linking the Tennessee with the Atlantic Ocean near Atlanta.
The court imposes ten years imprisonment on one, ten years to six years for another, four acquitted, and three hundred previously jailed in the colony. Carlists hold in Aragon destroying tele era and rafirords.
The New City officials including a Clerk at the corner of Day and Saeed, City Engineer Col. Speant, City Marshall, and Delinquent Tax Collector, oversee the Kenton street sewer project. George Notte completes a fine two sequence at Second streets corner.
A fragmentary item notes Bever Creek constable shot by a farmer on Oct 20, dying Friday night. It mentions the forger Lt. Cyr sent to Indianapolis, a Polk Church ceremony, and plans for Civil War generals and temperance lecturers visiting Dayton this winter.
Covington reports one horse from Covington Street Railway showing no epizootic symptoms. Waterworks work progresses. Jacob Suter fined $6 for toll evasion on the Cincinnati bridge. Kenton Chancery Court convenes at 1 pm in the United States Court room. City has received nearly ten thousand hogs in the past week. Rev. W. H. Felix to lecture Our Visit to Jerusalem at Odd Fellows Hall tonight. A young man named Alex Maloney faces a charge following a street parade incident on Fifth street. Loss amounts to seven dollars. Official majority of Judge Arthur for Congress in Boone county stands at 907.
War De n weather reports will be posted at the Newport Post Office. An epizootic has broken out among Geo.___s hauling horses for Swift's Land Steel Works with about thirty animals affected. Reuben Tedrow, previously beaten and shot by C. W. Root, has reappeared on the streets and is reportedly recovered.
Local items recount two men borrowing a wagon for a “little fan” and crashing on the Suspension bridge near Main Street. The piece notes licenses issued by Judge Traber, tax collection readiness, a Germania Saloon incident, a theater and ball by the United German Society, a confrontation between John Mo and Horace Kendal, and a comic taunt about a rock and a hat.
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