GREAT FIRE AT TORONTO
DAMAGE ABOUT £2,600,000.
SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE IDLE. By Telegraph.— Association Copyright. Ottawa, April 20. Many acres of buildings in the wholesale business part of Toronto have been burned. (Receiver! April 21, 10.30 p.m.) Ottawa, April 21. One hundred and thirty buildings were destroyed by the Toronto fire and 6000 people have been thrown out of work. The damage is estimated at 13,000,000 dollars (about £2,600,000), the insurances amounting to 9,000,000 dollars (about £1,800,000), chiefly in British offices.
Toronto is the capital of Ontario (Canada). It is a spacious and handsomely-built city, with fine churches, a splendidly-equipped university, Parliament buildings, etc., It does a large shipping and railway trade in lumber, fruit, grain, coal, etc.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12555, 22 April 1904, Page 5
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