A HUGE FIRE.
DISASTROUS OUTBREAK IN BOSTON. A SQUARE MILE BURNED. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, April 13. A fire destroyed over a square mile of Chelsea, a suburb of Boston. Thirteen churches, two public librariesT'lT children's hospital, a dozen factories and 400 tenement buildings were burned. The damage is estimated at one , million and a half sterling. The fire is still burning. One death has befen reported, and fifty people have been injured. Embers blown across the Chelsea River caused several of -tfe- Standards Oil Company's tanks to blow up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9211, 14 April 1908, Page 1
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95A HUGE FIRE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9211, 14 April 1908, Page 1
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