FATAL CONFLAGRATION.
ONE MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
TWENTY PERISH IN THE
FLAMES,
New York, December 4. A newspaper office in Minneapolis, a city of Minnesota, U.S., was destroyed by fire last night.
Many of the employees were unable to escape by the ordinary means of egress, and a number jumped from the windows to the street.
Oue man shot himself to escape a more fearful death by burning, and twenty others perished in the flames.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 289, 5 December 1889, Page 5
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