DETROIT RAILWAY STATION DESTROYED BY FIRE
BIG DEATH ROLL NARROWLY ESCAPED. IMMIGRANTS RESCUED FROM A BASEMENT. {Phess Association. —Copyright.) (Received Mav 2%. 12.15 ,p.m.) NEW YORK, May 28. A fire destroyed the Fort-street Union Railway station at Detroit, forty-seven .passengers, firemen, and policemen narrowly escaping death, dense smoke overwhelming them. A score of immigrants were locked ir. a basement. Firemen and police entered to rescue them, and dragged them into the open air. It is expected- that all will recover. Valuable railway records were burned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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85DETROIT RAILWAY STATION DESTROYED BY FIRE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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