Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-16
$1O,0OO,0OO FIRE IN
- BOSTON SUBURB
FOUR KILLED AND FIFTY HURT
IN MASSACHUSETTS CON-
FLAGRATiON.
SQUARE MILE OF BUILDINGS DE-
STROYED AND 1900 FAM
LIES HOMELESS.

boSCou, April Io.-A monetary loss
of $10,000,0OO, 1900 families home
less, four lives lost, fifty persons in
jured and one square mile of build
ings destroyed-sucha are the chief re-
suits of a fire which ragged at Chelsea
from 1910 o'clock yesterday morn
ing until 9 o'clock last night before
it was brought under control It
|leaped to East Boston, where it also
did some damage.
The confagration, which is the
greatest that has scourged any part of
the metropolitan district within the
last ten years, was got under control
only after half of the Boston fire de-
Ipartment and apparatus from a dozen
other cities and towns had gone to
the help of the Chelsea brigade.
TWO Women Lose Lives.
Two of the four persons thus far
known to have died are women
There may have been other fatalities,
and some of those injured may die
| The list of injuries is chiefly due to
! burns, although a number of men,
women and children were hurt by
falling debris.
The fire swept a path for itself one
and 0ne-half miles in length at the
extreme point 1t devastated the
manufacturing, retail and tenement
sections of Chelsea, many of the city's
finest structures becoming the prey
Of the flames. Exact estimates of
| the monetary loss are, of course, i'm
possible to obtain tonight, but it is
believed by the city collector that the
100000 figure is conservative.
Hard Gale Drives Flames.
The fire would have been much less
serious had it not been for furious
gale from the northwest, which at
times reached a velocity of sixty
miles an hour The fire, which is
thought to have been caused by spon.
taneoUs combustion among rags, be,
gan in the extreme southwestern part
of Chelsea and swept to the extreme
southeastern part
All efforts to identify the -four
bodies which were recovered from the
burned district proved unavaiIing UP
TO late hour tonight 1t is believed
that more bodies may be found in the
ruins
List of the Injured.
Among the injured are:
Carroll, fireman, CharIestown; over
come by smoke and burned about
head; condition critical
Carroll, engineman, Charles, Boston
Iovercome and badly burned; condi
ton critical.
Flas, Mrs. Rosie, Marine hospital
in bad condition; gave birth to child
yesterday and removed from burning
house.
Leach, R. H, Chelsea; badly burned
O,Neil, police officer w. J., Chelsea;
overcome.
Flynn, police officer T. E., Chelsea
overcome.
Hayes, captain B. F., engine No. q
Boston; overcome and ordered home.
Johnson, Bernard, Boston, volun
teer fireman; burned about head.
GoWdy, John, Chelsea; leg badly in
jured.
Heffernan, lieutenant, engine No
27; overcome by smoke.
Watkins, Sally, an aged cripple; re
moved from burning house by fou
Harvard students; suffering from
shock.
Porter, District chief, Albert, Bos
ton; burned about head and face
collapsed.
Dugin, Sergeant, Charles F., Com
pany 5, Coast Artillery; head, eye
and face burned.
Robinson, Ladderman J. w, Chel
sea; head and face burned.
Libby, brennan, Charles H., Cam
bridge; overcome by smoke.
Holland, A. c., Chelsea; face
burned.
Fern, NJ. J., no address; burned
about head and face.
Seaver, w. j., paralytic; removed
from burning places four differen
times; suffering from shock.
Pond Thomas, Chelsea; suffering
from excitement and weakness follow
ing recent operation.
Meddowes, Joseph; broken leg.