COLLAPSE OF GREAT BUILDINGS.
TREMENDOUS HAVOC BY FIRE.
BUSINESS PART DESTROYED. RESIDENTIAL SECTION INVADED. (Koceived April 19th. 10.48 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. Two (-mall towers on tho City Hall, a building which coet 7,000,000 dollars,
collapsed, and the Post Office was shattered. The Valencia Hotel and Kingsley's Lodging House collapsed. Eighty people were killed in each case. A great department store fell and buriod the caretakers in its ruins. Owing to the breaking of the gas mains, and €sic pipes in the houses, many fires occurred, which could not be coped with owing to the fracturo of the water mains. The flames, fanned by a brisk easterly wind, soon endangered the whole of the manufacturing and wholesale quarter. Tho firemen used dynamite freely in dealing with tho outbreaks, blasting out pathways in tho city block?. The deafening explosions added to tho terrors of the scene. Before long that section of the city south of Market, Third, and Ninth streets was a mees of flames. The latest telegrams state that after destroying the bus-mem part of the city the fire is now spreading to the residential section. No ferry steamers are running in the harbour, and all entry to the burning city has been stopped.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12483, 20 April 1906, Page 7
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