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Show BIG "FIRE1 IX CHINA. THIRTEEN HUNDRED HOUSES BURNED; I3.0C0 PEOPLE HOMELESS. A Number of Women and Children are Believed to Have Lost Their Lives A London Conflagration Other ' ?rews From Foreign Lands. Haskow, China, Xov. 3. Fire has destroyed des-troyed thirteen hundred houses in this city and rendered 13,000 people homeless. It is believed that a number of women and children chil-dren lost their lives. Two days afterwards two hundred more houses were burned. ECHOES OF THE GREAT GALE. The Crew of a Life Boat Lost Other Stories of Disaster. London-, Nov. 13. Though at midnight last night the great gale in England subsided sub-sided the storm is still raging in southwestern south-western Ireland. Dispatches continue to be received giving details of the havoc wrought along the coast by yesterday's storm. At Ramsgate. on the cast coast of the isle of Thane t, Kent, four fishermen drowned. There is great excitement in Southport, on the Irish sea, over the probable prob-able drowning of the crew of a life boat which went out yesterday to attempt to save the crew of a'vessel in distress off that place. There is hardly any doubt among those acquainted with the dansrers of the coast that the life boat foundered, and every soul in her found a watery grave. |