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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
1
The speaker vows a special Board of Aldermen meeting Monday to address homelessness after a city calamity. Prominent citizens from Boston and Chelsea discuss relief, and police are instructed to provide temporary aid as local generosity opens hundreds of homes to the homeless.
The mayor and I moved to evacuate residents to City Hall during the blaze. About 100 people filled the hall before the doomed building forced further warnings. A man stayed behind to help, while I rushed to the window as fire overtook the doorway. The city records were saved in a fireproof vault.
The Boston Post will set up a bureau to reunite families separated in the Chelsea fire. Refugees are housed in hundreds of homes in Revere Everett and Malden with aid from churches and charities. Readers with missing relatives should send shelter location and names for publication.
A massive fire tore through Chelsea overnight sweeping more than one square mile and leaving 8000 residents homeless. The blaze killed several and destroyed six million dollars worth of goods with only a few churches standing as fires raged. Troops and martial law maintained order as hospitals and aid efforts mobilized for the devastated city.
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