GREAT FIRE IN AMERICA.
HISTORIC CITY DEVASTATED.
1000 BUILDINGS DESTROYED,
10,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS
(Bt Euctbio Tbliobiph—Coptbight.) (Pib Pans Association)
NEW YORK, June ,26. t Nearly half of the old witch City of Salem, rich in historic buildings, has been devastated by fire, which caused the loss of twenty-million dollars. It destroyed one thousand buildings, including a 6Core of manufacturing establishments, and made 10.000 of its 45.000 inhabitants homeless. The fire originated in a leather factory, and swept through the shoe leather district, ruining every building in a curving path two miles long and half a mile wide. Burning embers started a fire in two other sections of the fashionable residence districts, and for a time tho whole city seemed doomed. Several buildings were dynamited and every available line of hose was directed against the approaching names.
No fatalities are reported, but fifty injured people have been received into the hispitals.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9834, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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