ALL ENTRY TO CITY STOPPED
FIRES SPREADING TO RESIDENTIAL ABEA. COLLAPSE OF GREAT BUILDINGS NUMBERS BURIED IN THE BUINS. ' "] Received 19,10.48 p.m. Losdok, April 18. Two roof towers on the City Hall, costing seven million dollars, eollapsed. The Post Office was shattered. The Valencia Hotel and Kingdey's lodging house collaped. Each killed eighty. A great Department store fell, burying the saretakers. Owing to tho breaking of the gas and water mains, many fires, fanned by a brisk easterly wind, soon endangered the whole manufacturing and wholesale quarter.
The firemen freely used dynamite to blast out pathways in tho city blocks. The explosions were deaioning, adding to the prevailing terrors. boon the section of the city south of Market street and Third and Ninth streets was a mass of flames.
No fcrrios are running, and all entry to the burning city is stopped. The latest telegrams state that after destroying the business district tho fire is spreading to tho residential section.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 2
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160ALL ENTRY TO CITY STOPPED Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 2
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