YEARS AGO
Approximately 1,000 persons are reported to have been killed and a greater number injured in the conflagration which destroyed about four-fifths of the city of Hakodate, chief port of Hokkaido, Wednesday night. More than 30,000 homes and shops were burned.
Starting at 7 p.m. in the southern end of Hakodate when a storm blew down the chimney of a public bathhouse, the flames quickly spread and raged through the city for 12 1/2 hours, being brought under control this morning when the wind subsided.