BIG FIRE IN FRISCO.
ANOTHER PLEASURE RESORT DESTROYED.
SERIOUS LOSS’ OF LIFE FEARED
£50,000 DAMAGE
Following closely on the fire by which the great amusement palaces at Coney Island was destroyed, comes the news of a similar disaster at another leading American pleasure resort, the Chutes Amusement Park, in San_ Francisco.
The fire started in a restaurant and spread with amazing ’rapidity, until finally several buildings had to be demolished with dynamite to stay the progress of the flames.
w All the chute structures were destroyed, and many of the smaller buildings used as theatres were damaged. Tiie ’most lamentable feature of the disaster is the loss of life that occurred. How many perished in the flames is not yet known, but several persons are believed to have been burned to death, while of many others who were seriously hurt, a few, it is feared, will not survive their injuries. Scores of animals perished, and the total damage is reckoned at £50.000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3241, 10 June 1911, Page 4
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162BIG FIRE IN FRISCO. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3241, 10 June 1911, Page 4
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