CABLE NEWS. A TERRIBLE FIRE

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. A TERRIBLE FIRE

HALF A CITY DESTROYED s j TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. DAMAGE ESTTAIATED 'X5,000,000. NO FATALITIES REPORTED. (By Telegraph— Copy ngJttt) ;Per United Press Association ) \ NEW YORK/June 20. Nearly half of Oldwitch City, Salem, rich m historic build «ngs_was devastated by a hre which caused a Vvss oi twenty million dollars and destroyed one thousand buildings, including a score, of manufacturng establishments. It made ten thousand of 45,000 inhabitants ' homeless. The file originated in a leather factory and swept through the shoe leather district mining every building in a -curving- path tWo miles long- and half a" mile wide. The burning- embeis started a fire in two other /sections in the fashionable residence district. For a time the uhole city seemed doomed;. Several .birldings wene dynamited and ,every, Jine of hose was directed against- the approaching flames. % No fatalities ;me reported, but fifty injured people were received into the hospital.