Show disastrous FIRE LOSS AT CHELSEA BOSTON april 12 an apparent sp ly insignificant ant fire which started among rags on a dump in the city of chelsa tod aywas fanned bya by a north west gale into a conflagration which obliterated nearly one third of the cit city five hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were destroyed fifteen hundred families were driven from their homes and ten thousand people are homeless two lives ore are known to have been lost one a woman having shot herself in a frenzy over her inability to save her property from fifty to alq 09 hundred bundred persons were injured accurate estimates of the loss are impossible the city soli cite estimates it at nearly the nrc fire raged bore borc a forty five mile gale ale for more than twelve hours defying the utmost efforts of the combined fire departments of chelsea and several nearby cities and a large detachment of boston firemen and apparatus |