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/////////////////STSTSMN=100 years ago today
NEWS ITEM
FIRE IN BOW BAZAR
Caused By A Mad Woman
Yesterday at 12-45 P.M. a disastrous fire broke out in 243, Bowbazar Street, in a hut belonging to one Umesh Chandra Bhattacharjee (known as Brahmin Thakur), a bikriwala (old furniture dealer). Umesh had come to his shop after taking his meal, and as his wife was a lunatic had locked her up in a room. The woman somehow set fire to the house and managed to escape and hide herself in a neighbour’s house. The flames were seen by some mistries on the roof of an adjoining house, and they gave the alarm. Four tiled huts of Umesh, packed with furniture, wee burnt to ashes in a few minutes. The fire spread to the Indian Stores, but Mr J Choudhury with a large number of men succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading, but a window was completely burnt and a store room had to be hurriedly vacated. A little after 1 P.M. the Fire Brigade arrived, but by that time the adjoining godown (No 243) of Mr D Smith, a stevedore, had been completely gutted. It took a little time before the hoses could be brought to play on the ire, but Superintendent Merriman and Engineer Chase with their men did their best to extinguish the fire. As there were no adjoining huts besides those burned the fire did not spread. Umesh Bhattacharjee had an iron chest containing valuables, currency notes, and documents, which were all burned.
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