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Show ( GREAT WHITE CITY OF BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR PRACTICALLY DESTROYED; LOSS ESTIMATED ESTI-MATED AT $100,000,000. TwoKnown to be Dead and Many Per sons Injured In the Great Conflagration. Con-flagration. Brussels. Fire swept the grent Belgian Bel-gian cxiwsltlon Sunday night. Tho flames woro fanned by a high wind and soon destroyed the Belgian, Eug-llsh Eug-llsh and French sections. It Is believed believ-ed tho whole exposition will bo destroyed. de-stroyed. Two aro known to bo dead and scores woro Injured. Tho White City of tho World's Fair, as the Belgians have called their 1910 exposition, 1b a mass of names and smouldering ruins. A. spark falling Into inflammable material In the telegraph tele-graph building burst up Into flames, which, driven by a high wind, swept rapidly in all directions. Soon tho Belgian English nnd French sections were destroyed. Tho firemen and detachments of soldiers called to the sceno found themselves baffled by tho gale, which carried tho burning embers to all parts of tho grounds. The loss Is estimated at $100,000,000. V |