Disastrous Fires

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 2

Disastrous Fires

TOWN OF ST. JOHNS DESTEOYED. ONE-HALF THE NOEWEGIAN CAPITAL BTJKNED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. St. Johns (Newfoundland), July 11. Two thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland — not New Brunswick, as first cnbled— have been destroyed by the fire. Six lives were lost, and not a single pub* lie building or mercantile house escaped One vessel was burned in the harbour, but the rest steamed away to sea. The fire originated through a match being dropped in a barn, and only stopped when there was nothing else to burn. The damage is estimated at four millions sterling. War ships are conveying food from Halifax, nnd relief funds have been opened in all Canadian cities. The fire extended from the town to the neighbouring villages. Six persons were drowned and eight burned to death during the progress of the flames. No water was available. Ten thousand people are homeless, Later. Fifteen thousand people have been rendered homeless by the fire. Twentytwo lives were lost. The bishop had a narrow escape and fled from the town very scantily dressed. Christiana, July 11, One half of Christiana, the capital of Norway, has been burned down. The Bank cf Norway, the Savings Bank and the Post Offices were destroyed. The damage is estimated at seven million crowns.