AMERICAN CITY DESTROYED.
THE BURNING OF BANCOR.
ONE! MILLION POUNDS DAMAGE,
A great fire occurred the other night in Bangor,_ Maine, a large section of that pleasantly situated riverside city being laid in ruins. It was a calamitous conflagration, extending as it did over an area two miles long by a quarter' of a mile wide, and doing damage to the amount of not less than £1,000,000. For 'hours' the firemen strove against fearful odds to stay the progress of the flames, and at one time it, looked as if the entire city must be reduced to ashes.
By means of dynamite explosions many buildings were levelled, but even then it was only through the wind providentially shifting and light rain fallling that the city was saved frqm total destruction. : ’
-As a result of this great blaze thousands are homeless.
Bangor is now under martial law, and , soldiers with loaded 1 ■ rifles are guarding the half-burned bank vaults. Several fatalities are reported, but what the actual toss of life has been has •not yet transpired. At least three men are 'known, to have been killed, and about 50 Others seriously injured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 7
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191AMERICAN CITY DESTROYED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 7
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