GREAT FIRES.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PERISH.
STREETS FLOW WITH BURNING WHISKY.
PRESS ASSOCIATION COI'YIUUIIT St. Petersburg, July 20. Tho wholo town of Sydrau, Russia, is offline. Thi-ty-six thousand peoplo aro homeless. Several hundred have perished. London, Juiy 20. Wa’aon's bonded warehouses at Dundee and Robertson’s distillery have b:en burnt out. There was an enormous destruction of whisky. The etots flowed with the burning spirit, and sproaii to a juto warehouse, Thoio was five acres of tho c'ty aflame. The damage is at least half a million.
ONE THOUSAND HOUSES BURNED in JAPAN,
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 12.19 a.m., July 23, Tokio, July 22. A fire at Yokohama burned one thou sand houses.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1815, 23 July 1906, Page 2
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