Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-06-09 | Page 2 | Fire Destroys Paradise Park

FIRE DESTROYS PARADISE PARK New York, June B, All of upper 1 Manhattan was illuminated an its I residents awakened before da light by a fire which swept Paradise park I at Fort George. The blaze started j from unknown causes rifcar the ferris wheel and before the aparatus had 1 reached the scene several large ; amusement halls and a score of j small buildings were destroyed. The flames leaped across the street, j threatening the Isabella Heimagh for ; aged Hebrew women. This building I was saved but its infirm inmates 1 were panic stricken while the flre-' flre-' men were playing water upon it The loss Is estimated at upwards of $inn.. ; 000.