BOSTON SUBURB DESTROYED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13635, 14 April 1908, Page 5

BOSTON SUBURB DESTROYED.

A SQUARE MILE DEVASTATED. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. OIL TANKS BLOWN UP. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. NEW YORK, April 13. A disastrous fire occurred at Chelsoa, a suburb of Boston. It swept over an urea of a* square mile and destroyed every building in that space. Thirteen churches, two public libraries, a children's hospital, a dozen factories, and four hundred tenement - buildings were 1 burned. The damage is estimated at £1,500,000. One death has occurred, and fifty people have b<jen injured). The embers that were blown across the Cholsca River caused several of the Standard Oil Company's tanks to blow up. The fire has not yet been subdued.