DISASTROUS FIRE
HONDURAS TOWN
BUSINESS AREA DESTROYED
(Received April 6, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 5. The State Department received word on Wednesday' that three-fourths of the town of Tela in Honduras, was destroyed by a fire which was still raging- . • ■ .
A message from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, states that the entire business district in the heart of the city of Tela was destroyed by the fire, which started at 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and was still burning at noon.
No loss of life was reported. The Fire Department concentrated its efforts upon preventing the spread of the fire to the suburbs. Five blocks in the business section, mostly frame structures, were'wiped out.
Tola, in the lowlands between Puerto Cortes and La Cuba on the Caribbean' Coast, is a rising centre of the banana trade and the focus of a network of light railways. The harbour is good and the port is used by New York, Bristol, and New Orleans fruit steamers. Population 9938.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 11
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