THE TORONTO FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 23 April 1904, Page 2

THE TORONTO FIRE.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

Press Association. Mlcctric Telegraph Copyright.

Ottawa, April 21.

A hundred and thirty buildings were destroyed in the fire at Toronto. Six thousand persons are thrown out of employment.

The damage is estimated at thirteen million dollars (£2,600,000). The insurances total nine million dollars (£1,800,00©), chiefly in British offices.

[Toronto, the capital of Ontario, is the second city in Canada, and in 1901 its population numbered 208,040.]