Five persons were in a hospital today, and 2,000 were without homes as a result of the fire which yesterday swept through the Jewish quarter of Zamocz. Three hundred others suffered slight injuries. It was earlier reported that several children and aged persons perished in the flames which destroyed a fourteenth century synagogue, seventy houses and did damage estimated at 500,000 zlotys. The fire is believed to have started from a defective stove in a Jewish bakery.
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