DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. AT CONEY ISLAND.
DAMAGE GREAT. TWENTY-SEVEN FIREMEN INJURED. By TcUjiaph. — rress Association.— Copyright (Received July 30, 8.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, 29th July. Firo devastated Coney Island, a popular Xew York resort. Tho damage is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. A sudden phango of wind prevented the destruction of two million pounds' worth of property. Two thousand people have been rendered homeless. Twenty-iseven firemen sustained injuries. Coney Island is a part of Long Island, New York, stretching about seven miles from east to west, and situated about fivo miles from Brooklyn. It is the most popular watering-place of Now York city. On tho extreme west end of a sand-bar, it has a fine fctretch of beach about fivo miles long.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1907, Page 5
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