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Apartment Hotel and Retail Stores Razed in Massachusetts Town
FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 16. - Estimates by owners of property and proprietors of stores in the business district, swept by fire early today indicate that the total loss would be approximately $2,000,000. A score of buildings including and apartment hotel and several of the largest retail stores in the city were destroyed and many others were damaged.
Police and firemen were unable to put forward any theory as to the probable origin of the fire. It started in the basement of a four-story brick building at the corner of South Main and Spring streets, occupied by the department store of the Steiger company. Help was called from New Bedford, Taunton and Newport, R. I...
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