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MANY INJURIES. DEVASTATION IN BOSTON SUBURB. : STILL UNSUBDUED. ■ BY TELEGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION" —COPYRIGHT? (Rec. April 14, 0.5 a.m.) Now York, April 13. A fire destroyed over a square mile of Chelsea, a suburb of Boston. Thirteen churches, two public libraries, ai children's hospital, a dozen factories, and 40(1 tenement buildings were burned. ■: The damage is estimated at a million and a half sterling, and the fire is still unsubdued. One death occurred and 50 cases 06 injury are.reported. Embers! blown'across the Chelsea Rivoi! ; caused several of the Standard Oil petro* ; leum tanks to blow up. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 172, 14 April 1908, Page 7
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99SQUARE MILE OF FIRE Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 172, 14 April 1908, Page 7
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