The Archive · 1890

GREAT FIRE AT SALONICA

London, &th September.

A destructive fire has occurred at Salonien and the whole European quarter is completely destroyed, 12,000,000 [712,000] persons having been rendered homeless, and 250 acres laid waste. Nhe Consulates, the Mosques, the Churches, and the Hospitals, with all the valuables and the archives have been destroyed.

{Salonica is the second largest city In European Turkey, and is situated at the head of the gulf so called, in the Bgean Sea. its' population is estimated at 80,000, Salonica is to be the point of departure of the mail service to the Enst, when the railway to itis finished.—Ep, N.-C.

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