THREE-QUARTERS OF CITY GONE.
REMAINING PORTION MAY BE SAVED. BEST AND RICHEST LOCALITIES DESTROYED. BOMBARDMENT BY BIG GUNS. POLICE AND FIREMEN EXHAUSTED. SOLDIERS AVERT A PANDEMONIUM. Received 23,12.20 a.m. Nbw Yoek, April 22. The Mayor hopes that one-fourth of the city will be saved, chiefly the suburbs. The best and richest sections of the city aro destroyed. Great guns bombarded the millionaires' quarter for hours unsparingly. The destruction wrought eventually stopped the progress of the lire. The police and firemen worked until utterly exhausted.
The soldiers acted heroically, averting a pandemonium.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8091, 23 April 1906, Page 2
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91THREE-QUARTERS OF CITY GONE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8091, 23 April 1906, Page 2
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