Just how the fire "started no one seems to know, but this morning there was an execution, when two men paid the extreme penalty for being implicated in the origin of the fire. One soldier is said to have had his hands cut off for being fraught with loot.
Steps are being taken by various philanthropic organizations to secure relief for the thousands who are rendered hamelers and who are encamped on the various hillsides or on the river bank surrounded by the little pile of household effects which they managed to rescue. The fin-anoint Toss cannot be estimated as yet, but it will doubtless run into millions.
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