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Show MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE IN IN BOSTON LUMBER YARDS H BOSTON', Aug. 9. A loss of upward or one million dollars was caused tonight by a fire In the wholesale lumber district IjH Starting from an unknown cause in the lumber yurds of Blacker & Shcpard. the blazo reached such magnitude that a general alarm the first sounded In this IH city since 1S72 followed within ten min-utcs min-utcs of the first alarm. Thu fire- destroyed ten million foot of lumber and live brick buildings. The IB buildings were a three-story tenement. IH four wood-working factories and the Bos-ton Bos-ton fire department repair station. J |