Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order

Fire

Corner Blackstone and Hanover streets, three men killed, Feb. 27, 1873

Four acres burned over at Washington and Essex streets, May 30, 1873

Hayes' Stables, Berkeley st.; 55 horses burned, Oct. 11, 1873

Dr. Gordon's Church, Montgomery street, burned, Jan. 4, 1874

Workshops, at the State Prison, burned, Mar. 21, 1874

Horse-car Stables burned at South Boston, Aug. 5, 1874

Severe one on Wareham street, Dec. 15, 1874

Hittinger's Wharf, Charlestown, burned, Dec. 15, 1874

Severe one on south side of Dock square, Mar. 9, 1876

Brooklyn Theatre, New York, burned, and 300 lives lost, Dec. 6, 1876

Jenney's Oil Works, South Boston, destroyed, Jan. 26, 1877

Southern Hotel, St. Louis, destroyed, great loss of life, Mar. 11, 1877

On Shawmut avenue, near Tremont street, loss of life, June 6, 1877

At St. Johns, Newfoundland, news received, June 21, 1877

Gore's block, on Pitts street, burned, Sep. 24, 1877

Holmes' Furniture Warehouse, Charlestown, destroyed, Jan. 31, 1878

Tremont Temple, Tremont street, badly scorched, Aug. 14, 1879

Tenement houses, South Boston, five lives lost, Sep. 17, 1879

At Winthrop square, $1,000,000 of property destroyed, Dec. 29, 1879

Boston Journal Building badly scorched, Mar. 21, 1880

Beebe's Block, Winthrop square, burned, May 6, 1880