GREAT FIRE IN TEXAS.
CITY OF GALVESTQN IN FLAMES. SIXTY BLOCKS OF BUILDINGiS DESTROYED. • ! HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES HOMELESS. ■ rPRESENT DAMAGE OVER -- ' Jli - &4,000,000.-' ** ; ; , FIRE STILL RAGING— UNABLE TO PUT IT OUT. (electric telegraph. — copyright.) Ceeuter's telegrams.) ' (■■■-■ New York, Novi. 23. Evening. Telegrams have been received m this city from Galveston, Texas, stating that a disastrous conflagration is raging m that city. The fire broke out this ,morn-_ •ing,, and all the efforts, to /suppress it have ud to the present been unsuccessful. Sixty blocks of buildings have already been destroyed, and damage to the ci.tent fot upwards of four million pounds has already been done. Hundreds; of the inhabitants have been rendered homeless j and destitute. j ,•
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 4
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117GREAT FIRE IN TEXAS. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 4
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