A SUBURB DESTROYED.
1 ENORMOUS DAMAGE, j (Peess Association. — Copsbishx.) j NEW YORK, Monday. -'' A fire destroyed over a square mile of _ Chelsea, a suburb of Boston. Thirteen churohes, two public libraries, a" children's hospital, a dozen factories, and 400 tenement buildings were burned. The damage is £1,500,000. The fire is still unsubdued. There was one death, and 50 cases of injury. Embers were blown across the Chelsea river, and caused several of the Stand- .- ard Oil "tanks to blow up.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 3
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81A SUBURB DESTROYED. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 3
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