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Devastating City Fire Ravages Streets and Homes
A rapid and widespread blaze began in a Broad Street hay shed and tore through Exchange and Hammond streets. Nightfall left churches and public buildings ruined, thousands homeless, and injuries and three deaths confirmed as National Guard moved in to restore order.
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Scribner
Brewer
Mullen
National Guard
Portland
Lewiston
Augusta
Oldtown
J. Frank Green
Broad Street
Exchange Street
York
State
State Street
Kenduskeag
Broadway
Central
Franklin Streets
Park Street
Marlow Street
Centre
French Streets
Waterville
City Hall
Main Street
Bangor Commercial
Bangor House
Merrill
Penobscot
Western Union
Maine Central Railroad
Exchange Streets
Kenduskeag Stream
Broad
Hammond Streets
Cnaths
Smith and Strickland
Hammond and
Central Streets
Haynes & Chalmers
Hodgkins
Fiske
Fairbanks & Co
Bangor Public Library
Morse-Oliver
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Windsor