A TERRIBLE FIRE.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE LEAP
FOR LIFE.
FIFTY PERSONS BURNT
(Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright)
(Received April 20, 9.10 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. A wooden building used as a boarding, house at San Francisco during rebuilding operations, and aocommodatirig 300 laborers, wag destroyed by fire. Two hundred of the occupants leapt from the windows in their night attire. - Fifty were burnt, and niany had broken limbs. . j .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11839, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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69A TERRIBLE FIRE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11839, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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