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Thousand People Homeless After Galveston Fire
Galveston November 13 reports a major blaze that destroyed 52 blocks of the city’s east end, leaving about 1,000 people houseless. Losses cited exceed 1.5 million dollars in property with insurance around 600 thousand to 800 thousand.
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Galveston
Avenue A
Gulf
Island
Sixteenth Street
Seventeenth Street
Twentieth Streets
Avenue D
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
Julius Runge
Leon Blum
Mrs. Magale
Citizens’ Committee
Oundry
Strand
Avenues C,d and E
Postoffice
United States Court
Avenue I
Magale
Begins & ' m
Blum Moritz Lasker
HU. Fellmann
Fellman & Grumbach
Seg Sealey
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railwa
Mansi
F. George's
Thames
Cross & Co
Grocere
A. Verner
Tinner
John A. Hammer
Relief Committee
Cotton Exchange
W. L. Moody
William H. Sinclair
Ball, Hutchina & Co
J. P. Willis & Co
L. & H. Blam
Samson Heidenheimer
W.L. Moody
J.D. Rogera & Co
Island City Savings Bank
George Ball
Captain James &B. Eads
St. Louis
Inman & Co
Houston
New York
Roger L. Fulton
Austin
Texas Banking and Insurance Company
Texas
Opera House