HONDURAS BLAZE.
Heart of City of Tela Burning
For Hours.
NO LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED,
(Received 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 5. A message from Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, states that the entire business district in the heart of the city of Tela was- destroyed by fire, which started at six o'clock on Wednesday morning and was still burning at noon.
The State Department here received word to-day that three-fourths of the town had been destroyed by the fire.
No loss of life is reported. The fire department centred its efforts upon preventing a spread of the conflagration to tlio. suburbs. Five blocks of the business section, mostly frame structures, were wiped out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 7
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