A BIG FIRE.
TOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT. A THOUSAND PEOPLE LEFT HOMELESS. [By Telegraph.] (Per Mail Steamor at Auckland.) Tho little town of Clover Port, Kentucky, was almost completely wiped out by fire on March 14th. Tho disaster was caused by the bursting of a natural gas-pipe. Property worth half-a-million dollars was destroyed, and a thousand people were loft homeless and destitute. Every modern method of relief was resorted to, as there was a railway into tho town. There was also at once ordered to tho scene, every available coach, and in these the unfortunates were temporarily housed.
The Railway Company also hurried provisions to the town, as every store and every mouthful of food had been lost.
Tho Governor of the State at once sent five hundred tents, and the city of Louisville lost no time in equipping a train load of provisions and accessories for the comfort of their' afflicted neighbors. These suffered severely from cold, as the fire broke out in the early morning, and drove the women and children out into the bitter cold, while all who were able tried, quite in vain, to quench tho flames, or to save some property.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 85, 19 April 1901, Page 2
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