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Title: Souvenir Book of the Great Chelsea Fire April 12, 1908
Containing Thirty-Four Views of the Burned District and Prominent Buildings

Author: Anonymous

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SOUVENIR BOOK OF THE GREAT CHELSEA FIRE
APRIL 12, 1908.

Containing Thirty-Four Views of the Burned
District and Prominent Buildings.

Also a Descriptive Sketch.

Copyright, 1908, By The N. E. Paper & Stationery Co.
Manufacturers of Souvenir Post Cards and View Books,
Boston and Ayer, Mass.

The Great Chelsea Fire

On Sunday April 12, 1908, at about 11 o'clock A. M., an alarm was rung in
for a fire in the works of the Boston Blacking Co. on West 3rd St., near
the Everett line. The fire department responded immediately and succeeded
in putting out the fire with but very little damage, but the forty-mile
gale that was blowing at the time carried sparks from the fire to nearby
houses, and soon all the frame buildings in that vicinity were ablaze. The
fire then traveled with great rapidity in an easterly direction, and
despite the best efforts of the department, was soon beyond control. Aid
was called in from nearby cities, but even the largely increased force was
unable to cope with the fire, and could only endeavor to keep it within
certain limits. So intense was the heat that buildings made of solid
granite crumbled, and were entirely destroyed. The fire could not be
checked in its easterly course, and in a short time had traveled across
the city and