DISASTROUS FIRE.
DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO £1,500,000. ONE DEATH REPORTED. Received April 14, 12.5 a.m. NEW YORK, April 13. A fire destroyed over a square mile of Chelsea, a suburb of Boston. 'lhirteen churches, two public libraries, the children's hospital, a dozen factories, and 400 tenements and buildings were burned. The damage amounted to a million and a half sterling. The fire is still burning. One death is reported, and fifty persons were injured. Embers were blown across the Chelsea river and caused several of the Standard Oil Company's tanks to blow up.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9065, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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92DISASTROUS FIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9065, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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