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Show CONSTANTINOPLE SWEPT BY FIRE Constantinople;, June 4. A great fire yesterday swept over Stamboul, the Maha.raroedan section of Constantinople, Constan-tinople, At g o'clock last evening the fire was still burning, but It was hoped itB further advance had been checked. Two thousand houses and several mosques were burned. A wide lane vas cleared by the flames from the walls of tho old Seraglio Se-raglio palace grounds as far as Little Aya mosque, a distance of three-quarters three-quarters of a mile. This mosque escaped es-caped destruction and the open space) he about it appears to have stayed the fire The advance of the flames toward the wealthier quarters was barred by the hippodrome and the Sultan Ahmed mosque, both of which wero saved Prom here the conflagration swept southward toward the Marmora shore, whore tho houses aro smaller and foi the most part built, of wood. |