DESTRUCTIVE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE.

•' ft NT Y-FIVE BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS BURNED.

llectric Telegraph. — Copyright.) {Per Press Association.)

New York, February 22. ..ho town of Houston, Texas, is in tli.mes. The fire swept the eastern section of the town, destroying twenty-five blocks, and thousands of persons aro homeless. Scores of big manufacturing plants lU?>1 U ?> ,™™n Ur , neci > aud cottou va lued at £400,000 destroyed. Although tho conflagration reached such enormous dimensions, it'is believed that not a single life has been lost There were many narrow escapes from the hotels when the alarm was raised.

D ~ „ . Later. Keliet . committees are operating to relievo tho thousand persons who havo been rendered homeless through the great fire at Houston. The loss will exceed £1,500,000. ■The fire' originated in an untenanted house, and, fanned by a fierce gale, spread rapidly in a southerly direction It w -as only cheeked when it reached the stream known as Buffalo Bayou. Tho flames leaped tho stream several times, igniting the loots en somo oil stores, but tho firemen suppressed tho blaze, thus nroventing still greater damage.