CITY DESTROYED
APPALLING CONFLAGRATION IN AMERICA.
TEX THOUSAND RENDERED
.HOMELESS,
Received 27, 12.20 a.m. „ *few York, June 20. Nearly half the city of Salem, rich in historic buildings, was devastated by fire, which caused a loss of twenty million dollars and destroyed one thousand buildings, including a score of mnaufacturing establishments, and made 10,000 out of 145,000 inhabitants homeless. The fire originated in a leather factor, swept through the shoe-leather district, ruining every building in carving its path two miles long by half a mile wide. Burning embers started a fire in two other sections in the fashionable residence districts, and for a time the whole city seemed doomed. Several buildings were dynamited, and every available line of hose was directed against the approaching flames. No fatalities are reported, but fifty people were received in the hospitals.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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137CITY DESTROYED Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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