TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE.
FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. Campbellton, a lumbering town in northern New Brunswick, is reported to have been practically destroyed by fire (ran a Iteuter message on 12th July). Communication is cut off, but, according to reports, only two houses are standThe fire started in the afternoon, at the Richard mills, at the back of the town, and spread towards the centre, destroying the Royal Bank and the Bahk of Nova Scotia. The churches, the hospital, three mills, the opera house, the foundry, and all the dwellinghouses and stoics of the intercolonial station were included in the catastrophe. The fire, fanned by a strong north-west wind, passed on through the town, destroying the buildings oil both sides of the railway and the railway track itself for four miles. Foui- thousand men, Women, and children are homeless as a, result of the fire, and one child was suffocated. Ib is reported, but without confirmation, that seven men killed by an explosion of dynamite at Alexander's store. Among the buildings de* stroyod ware five nlillfi. , The loss is estimated at £100,000.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 13
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182TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 13
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