Great Britain
With ten miles of hose 300 London firemen fought a towering blaze in the dreary slum of Wapping last week while cordons of polite police kept 100,000 spectators at bay.
Firethough beaten at lastdid not exactly lose the fight. Poor though Wapping was, appraisers figured the property loss at "not less than one million pounds" ($4,860,000). Two thousand wretched Wappingites were burnt out of the tenements and hovels they called home.
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