DISASTROUS FIRE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1002, 14 April 1908, Page 5

DISASTROUS FIRE.

DAMAGE AMOUlrrS I TO £1,560,000: FIVE DEATHS; REPORTED, • iPress Assn— By telegraph—Copyright- ; , NEW^YORK, yesterday. A fire destroyed over a sqiiaxie > mile a suburb of Boston! ' ; Thirteen churches, two public lib:jariesj the children's hospital, a dozen factories,- and 400 tenements and buildings yi'erebiirned. /* - The damage r amqiirited to a -'-million vand " l a half ieterling^ / The fire- is still burning. One; deiattli i is reported, and fifty persons wer^ injured. Embers" were -Blown across the •.Chelsea, river: ansv caused several of the Standard Oil Ctoinpaiiy's tanks to blow up. ' "

(Received this day, 8.29 a.m.) NEW. YOtlK, yesterday. - The fire at. Boston Ajrajs started in a rag picker's shop. Ten thousand have 'been rendered homeless. Four additional deaths are reported, s ■ The damage Is put at two millions.