DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
AN EXHIBITION DESTROYED
United Pkm Amoc!aMo_—By Electric Telegraph— # Copyright. Received December 27th, 9.50 a.m. Chicago, December 26. The Coliseum, where the Exhibition of Manufactures was being held, was destroyed by fire. During the progress of the fire nine employees were killed and forty injured. The damage amounts to 700,000 dollars. Received December 28th, 12.45 a.m. Lokdon, December 27. A fire in Dixie street, Bethnal Green, burned to death Mrs Jarvis and nine children, whose ages ranged from sixteen years to eight months.'' Some of the unfortunate victims earned a living by making matches. Most of them were suffocated in their sleep. The father died from consumption in the hospital on the same day as the family perished.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9920, 28 December 1897, Page 5
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