GREAT FIRES.
4 — __. AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. AND CHEISTIANA, NORWAY. (per press assooution.) St. John's, July 11. Two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland, not Now Brunswick, as first cabled, has been destroyed by the fire. Six lives were lost. Not a single public building or mercantile house escaped. One vessel was burned in the harbour, but the rest steamed away to the sea. The fire originated through a match being dropped in a barn, and only stopped when there was nothing more to burn. The damage is estimated at four millions sterling. Warships are conveying food from Halifax, and relief funds have been opened in all Canadian cities. - - Christiana, July 11. One-half of Christiana, the oapital of Norway, has been burned down. The Bank of Norway and the' Savings Bank- were destroyed, and the Post Office was aleo destroyed. The damage is estimated at seven million crowns.
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Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 648, 12 July 1892, Page 2
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146GREAT FIRES. Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 648, 12 July 1892, Page 2
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