ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
View of the Burning City from Powderhorn Hill Frontispiece
The Bellingham-Cary House 16
The Pratt House, built about 1700 18
Broadway before the Fire, looking South from Bellingham 22
Broadway, a few Weeks after the Fire, looking South from Bellingham 24
Ruins of the Baptist Church and City Hall 32
The Lynn Engine destroyed by the Flames 34
Start of the Fire near the Everett Line 38
Responding to the First Alarm 42
Granite Block, Dynamited during the Fire 48
A Boston Fire Boat fighting the Fire 56
Brown Stone Houses Fared no Better than Wooden Tenements 56
Junction of Washington Avenue and Broadway before the Fire 58
Residence of Ex-Mayor Thomas Strahan before and after the Fire 62
Boston and Albany Railroad Bridge, with Wrecked East Boston Bridge and Burning Oil Tanks in Background 68
The Fitz Public Library before and after the Fire 70
Where the Fire was stopped on Sixth Street 74
Ruins of the Central Congregational Church 78
A Vast Expanse of Ruins 82
The Highland School before and after the Fire 84
Shurtleff Street before and after the Fire 86
Chief Spencer during the Fire 88
The Eighth Company, Coast Artillery, keeping back the Crowd in Winnisimmet Square 94
Troop A, First Squadron of Cavalry 96
Granite Crumbled to Gravel under the Heat 102
The Court House, used as City Hall after the Fire 108
The Bread Line 114
Effect of Fire on Granite Walls and Curbing 120
The Shurtleff School before and after the Fire 128
Map showing Burned District 134
County Road, in the Residential Section 136
The Wentworth Residence, among the Places not Destroyed 140
Residence of Ex-Mayor Pratt, in the Prattville District, One of the Many Attractive Places in Chelsea not Burned 144