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Subj: Today in History - Jun 05
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A huge section of the city of Constantinople, Turkey, is set ablaze on June 5, 1870. When the smoke finally cleared, 9,000 homes
were destroyed and 2,000 people were dead.
A young girl was carrying a hot piece of charcoal to her family kitchen in an iron pan when she tripped, sending the charcoal
out the window and onto the roof of an adjacent home. A fire quickly spread down Feridje Street, one of Constantinople\u2019s main
thoroughfares.
The Christian area of the city was quickly engulfed. There was a high degree of cooperation among the various ethnic groups
who called the city home, but even this was no match for the high winds that drove the rapidly spreading fire. An entire square
mile of the city near the Bosporus Strait was devastated. Only stone structures, mostly churches and hospitals, survived the
conflagration.
In 1887, Edmondo de Amicis published perhaps the best account of this disaster in a book called Constantinople.
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