CITY DEVASTATED BY FIRE.
HISTORIC BffiJIGS RUINED, -i HEAVY LOSSES , Xoi THOBSOD PEBPUB HOMELESS. i t Bl' Teie-jrajili—tees A65.p-eifl.tJon—Cwyrfctal i (Bee. June 27, 0,20 a.m.) I New Yarli, June 20. Nearly lialF ,ef the ofcl city of Safcm \ (Miss.), which' was the scene of tiro . witchcraft trials in 1092, and for the \ ig*ea.t gaol tlcUvoi'y in 1693, Ws, with its rich historic buildings, besii devae- , tatal Ijy fire. ] Tho <Hrtbfe.nJc caused tho Ips? of ■■ f tivwvty million dollars and destroyed mm tkmsand hwitliiigß., jasladjiig » Seoffc oi manufacturing estsiblisfomeMs. I,t also made tost ilwitsftml of the fortySv© thousand inhalj-itijiits of tho city heiaielesjsi . T:lw fi.ro origiiiatocl iti. a kjiitW fat* ■ toy, .and siv-e|jt right tbawp;h ft<? $hg:e and leatljct district.,,, ruining every ■ buijdutft iii 'te eiirvrog path, wliicti was tfro nvifes long and half it iirilo wkJ.O. [ Burning enVtfs started a fire in tve oilier seotiptes of the fasMoiwWo icsidpiieo districts, qnd for a tiwo the S'hoto city seemed feomocl. Several buijxfcigs we : fij theu dynamited \ ftsid fevory availalMo lino of hosa was directotl agamst.'ft« appraachiag flames. f\c> fatalities are reportot, but. fifty , injured pMplo have' biseft i-eceive-d kite- : [ tho hospitals.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2187, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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190CITY DEVASTATED BY FIRE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2187, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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