Salem Struck by Night Fire Desolation Across City
In dawn light Salem reveals widespread ruin from a massive blaze. Thousands are homeless as brown-uniformed soldiers patrol the streets, guiding residents through the wreckage past charred trees, collapsed mills, and a shattered Naumkeag complex toward scattered homes. The St. Joseph’s Church arch stands amid the devastation.
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Essex Street
Union
Elm
Charter Streets
Naumkeag
St. Joseph’s Church
Meeting to form Salem relief committee at City Hall
Public spirited citizens and business men are urged to attend a meeting at the old Aldermanic Chamber City Hall on Saturday June 27 at 11 a m. The purpose is to organize a relief committee to work with a State committee to aid the stricken city of Salem.
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Aldermanic Chamber
City Hall
Salem
Contagious Cases Moved to Salem Tuberculosis Hospital
The Salem Tuberculosis Hospital is now a contagious hospital controlled by the State medical department. Tubercular patients were moved to Salem Willows by ambulance and vehicles, where a coast artillery company set up tentage for 70 patients and patrols the camp under military rules. About 15 scarlet fever and measles cases are housed there, with roughly 20 nurses volunteering under state and Boston Board of Health direction.
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Salem Tuberculosis Hospital
State Medical Department
Salem Willows
Coast Artillery
Coast Artillery Company
Boston Board of Health
Salem After Fire Desolation Persists as Aid Flows In
Hundreds of families lose homes while fire crews remain at posts. Visitors arrive by rail and trolley. Lafayette street open to crowds. Armory on Essex Street serves as aid center for refugees especially French, with scouts assisting. Rebuilding begins as electric cars bring poles and crews replace charred wires.
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Lafayette Street
Custom House
Boston Street
Salem
Essex Street
Gallows Hill
Essex
Boston Streets
Warren Street
Young Men’s Temperance Association
Path of flames consumes Broad to Lafayette in Salem blaze
The fire sweeps from Summer street at Odell square across the railroad to Canal and Lafayette streets burning hundreds of homes. Rich and poor flee as mansions along Lafayette vanish, guarded safes and valuables dot the ruined streets.
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Broad
Hawthorne
Odell Square
Summer Street
Canal Street
Lafayette Street
St. Joseph’s
Gardiner
Fairfield
la Grande
Salem
Katherine Welsh
Ernest Lane
John Berlin
Henry B. Batchelder
Merchants’ Bank of Salem
Walter K. Bigelow
Bigelow Department Store
John W. Stanton
R. Roby Company
Boston
William Perry
The
Salem News
Jonathan Brown
Robert Harris
Kevi Carmen
George Newcomb
William Hill
Mary Ellis
Herman Harris
Ellis Home
Chamber of Commerce Urges Aid for Stricken Salem
The Salem Chamber of Commerce calls on its members to cooperate and provide personal aid to those distressed by the calamity. It urges members to decide immediately what they can offer and take responsibility for their contributions.
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Salem
Chamber of Commerce
GE Plant Opens to Refugees With Meals and Attendants
Word from Lynne to Salem officials says W. E. Fish, General Electric manager, will throw open a large factory building to fire refugees. He will furnish two meals daily and provide attendants to care for their needs.
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Lynne
Salem
W. E. Fish
General Electric Company
Fish
Fire Toll Reaches Four in Salem Blaze
The Salem fire killed at least four people and left several others in serious condition. Victims were taken to Beverly and Peabody hospitals after Salem Hospital burned Thursday night. The death toll could rise as authorities assess the scene.
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Salem
Beverly
Peabody
Multiple deaths from Salem area ruin after fire
Mrs. Sarah Fiske 60 is the only positively identified dead. Two charred bodies are recovered. one may be Samuel P. Withey 70 of 28 Prescott street. A baby of John H. Hassel 20 Boston street is reported dead. May Vaughan 7 Highlans avenue lies dying at Peabody Hospital. Joseph Lee is in serious condition after leaping from a window. A Lafayette street laundry tenement loss claims another life. initial Chinaman victim clarified as a woman, possibly Mrs. Cunningham of the upper tenements.
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Sarah Fiske
Salem Hospital
Samuel P. Withey
Prescott Street
John H. Hassel
Boston Street
May Vaughan
Highlans Avenue
Peabody Hospital
Joseph Lee
Horn Factory
Lafayette Street
Joseph Pickering
Atwood
Cunningham
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Roger Conant
Salem Common
Brick
Europe
U. S. Pat
Canada
Fiske & Company, Inc
Arch Street
Apayette Street
Lstaid
Prosperous
Curley
Franklin St
Chamber
General Electric
Frank Ferdinand Co., Inc
New England
Ferdinand
Washington ST
Beacon
Central Square
Cambridge
Ilhonrouven
Heywood
Mayfair
Panama
Percale
Madras
Uneeda Biscuit
Libby
Santa Clara
Smith
Jamaica
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