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Show SEVEN 1 And a Baby Burned to Death During a Large Fire St. John. .V. B., July 11'. Coring for the homeless and tearchiug the ruin ( for other victims, were tasks that ( confronted the anther. ties lit Canip-j bellton. N. D., following last night's I destructive fire there, in which eight! persons are reported to have b-x n I killed, more than three hundred driven driv-en from their homes and a loss of $2.0no,000 suffered. All outside communication from the little lumber town on the north short of New Hrnnswict; wn nit rff if was not until today that messengers began to bring details. Seven men were reported to have been killed in an explosion during tbe fire. Th" body of an Infant was recovered in the ruins of a dwelling house. i The blaze started in" the Richards 1 company shlnglo mill on the west-1 ern side of the town. A heavy wind ! was blowing and. within a few minutes, min-utes, the fire was lx-yond control. The residential section is also reported re-ported to have been destroyed. nathurst, N. R., July 12. Fully 3,000 persons In Campbellton are homeless today as the result of a fire which yesterday and last nlglu destroyed a large portion of the town. The loss of I eight lives was reported early todav. Telegraph and telephone wires between be-tween Hathutt and Campbellton ar . down and all Information received herf was brought by traiu. ; Canipbellion was the largest cedar shingle center in Eastern America and practically all of the mills there were destroyed. Including tho big plant of the Shiveo Lumber company, Richards Lumber company and the Mt.flfatt mills. The property of th-se three concerns, In which American capital was Interested, was valued at $1.000,0.10. In addltloi the Intercolonial station round house, hundreds of cars, two churches, two banks, business houses and residences were obliterated. The fire started In the mills of the Richards Lumber company and, fanned fan-ned by a southwesterly pale, spread to all parts of the town. The water mains failed at a critical tlmo 'and. even with aid sent from , Newcastle Bathurst and Dalhoin-le, the Campbejl-ton Campbejl-ton people were unable tomuko headway head-way against the flames. , The fire spread to the Woods apd underbrush and extended .as Tar ai' Rlchardevllle, two miles from Camn-bellton. Camn-bellton. 1 . Several buildings in Richardsvllle were burned. The total loss In Campbellton is I estimated at $2,000,000. Tho popula-lion popula-lion of the town Is about 5.000. |