DISASTROUS FIRE.
SQUARE MILE OF BUILDINGS - BURNED. |, I'THE STILL UNSUBDUEDT . OIL TANKS BLOW UP. FIFTY PERSONS INJURED. Received April 14, 12.5 a.m. New York, April 1/3. A lire destroyed over a square mile of Chelsea suburb in Boston. Thirteen churches, two public libraries, a children's hospital, a dozen factories, and four hundred tenement buildings were burned. The damage is estimated at a million and a half sterling. The lire is still unsubdued. One death has occurred, and lii'ty were injured. The embers that were blown across the Chelsea river caused several of tlia Standard Oil Company's tanks to blow up.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 98, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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100DISASTROUS FIRE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 98, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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