| Show FIFTEEN FAMILIES SUFFER residents of chelsa massachusetts made homeless by flames and two lives are lost A square mile of territory burned over the tha manufacturing tenement and retail district being scene of worst conflagration in his hia tory of city doston all ali apparently insignificant fire which stalled among tags lags on a dump lit in tile the city of chelsea on sun d ly m was as fanna ba b a northwest bile into a conal migration v which obliterated nearly onet one third bird of the city rive hundred dwelling houses and public buildings destroyed des troed fifteen hun dred families bilven fiam their th e ir hompa homes and ten itolle aro are hoinig homeless sa two tao lives are ara known to I 1 have been lost and from fifty to one hund bundled itil abic injured accurate estimates of the loss ale aie impossible the city sol solicitor deltor estl mates it t at nearly 10 rho rha file raged before a 45 mile gale for more thin twelve elve hours defying the t 11 utmost anio 1 t efforts of the combined fire departments part ments of chelsca chelsa and several nearby cities and a large detachment of boston and app apparatus matus tho the fire area mh which e h was in the form mile of an ellase a mile and a half long and halt a mile wile alle at its bio broadest adest part extended diagonally across the tha city all the banks more than three of the churches half of the bust ness blocks and heady all the school houses were mupi wiped d out one hospital and a lily were vere destroyed desti oyed the alre slatted almont ADM the extreme southwest st section of the city and cut a path to the end of mayer maver lck street at the extreme southeast ern und end of the city which borders chelsea creek creck this Is about one and a halt half miles from where UK the fire be gan the lames flames spread through the henrt of the retail business section which was mas about midway biL between tween the to extreme limits reached by the fire |
