Show r SALEM'S PEOPLE r Continued from pa page e 1 J. J The explosion Is thlu thought ht to have oc occurred oc- oc curre amon among chemicals u used ed In the manufacture of or patent leather This factory stood near the foot of ot Gallows Gallows Gal lows ons hill famous as the hanging place of ot witches In the tho early days at nt the western end of the city A high wind carried tho the flames through the manufacturing manufacturing turing district and thence southeastward to the heart of ot the city and across a thickly populated tenement district to the waterfront Wind Shift Fans Flames names A shift In the wind sent the tho fire northward northward northward north north- ward along Lafayette street where scores o of ot the city's finest t residences were I burned The fire spread out to another manufacturing center on the shore thore of ot the i harbor and destro destroyed ed large factories In Tn Inthe Inthe 1 the Intervening area ora scores of business f houses were swept away aW Tho The Salem S hospital was was among the buildings burned but all oU the patients were rescued Great quantities of ot apparatus from neighboring titles dUes assisted In to lighting fighting the flames names To the tho eastward they burned themselves es out at ot the waters water's edge The final stand was i made mado near Dear the Boston S Maine railroad station Here several buildings were dynamited and the tho firemen at last gained the tho upper hand saving the northeastern part of ot the cIt city A separate fire which tho the police say 1 was aS of ot Incendiary origin destroyed thir teen dwellings In North Salem |