FIRE DISASTER.
TOWN IN HONDURAS NEARLY WIFED OUT. ENTIBB BUSINESS DIaIEICT PESTEOYED. s NO LOiSS OF LIFE REPORTED. WASHINGTON, April 5. The State Department received word on Wednesday that threefourths of the town of Tela in Honduras, was destroyed by a fire which was still raging. A message from Tegucigalpa, Honduras states that the entire business district in the heart of the city of Tela was destroyed by the fire, which started at 6 o’clock on Wednesday morning, and was still burning at noon. No loss of life was reported. The Fire Department concentrated its efforts upon preventing the spread of the fire to the suburbs. Five blocks in the business section, mostly frame structures, were wiped out. (Tela, in the lowlands between Puerto Cortes and La Cuba on the Caribbean Coast, is a rising centre of the banana trade and the focus of a network of light railways. The harbour is good and the port is used by New York, Bristol, and New Orleans fruit steamers. Population 993>8.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1933, Page 5
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