Show fifteen SU residents of chelsa massachusetts made homeless by rimes and two lives are lost A square mile mil of territory burned over the manufacturing tenement and retail district being scene of worst conflagration in history of city boston an apparently insignificant fire which started among rags on a dump in the city of chelsea on sund ity ay iy was fanned b a northwest gale into a conflagration which obliterated nearly one third of the city rive five hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were destroyed fifteen him died families were driven from their homes ail and ten tho thousand wiand people ale aie homeless 1 iwo I wo lives are known to have been lost and hoin fifty to one hundred were injured accurate estimates of the loss are impossible the alti its solicitor esti mates it at nearl the alro raged before a 45 mile gale for mole moie than twelve hours defying the utmost efforts of the combined fire de pait pai amenta Ments of chelsea and sescial nearby cities and a large detachment of boston firemen and the fire area which was in the form of an elapse a mile and a half long and half a mile wide at leq it broadest part exten extended dd diagonally across the city all the ho banks moi ethan three of the file chui ch inches clies half of the busi bus ness blocks and nearly all the school houses wiped out one hospital and a clay nursery were destroyed the flie started almost from the ex tieme south southwest est section of the city and cut a path to the end of milver maver ick street at the extreme southeast ern end of the city which borders chelsea creek this is about one and a half miles from where the fire be gan the flames spread through the heart of the retail business section which was about midway between the to extreme lin limits readied reached by the gre |