[Illustration: Wreck of a Lynn Fire Engine, which had to be abandoned.] [Illustration: Ruins of St. Rose Catholic Church, Broadway, Chelsea, Mass. After the big fire of April 12, 1908.] [Illustration: Universalist Church, corner Fourth and Chestnut Sts. The small view shows it as it looked before the fire.] [Illustration: Central Congregational Church, corner Fifth and Chestnut Sts. The small view shows it as it looked before the fire.] [Illustration: First Baptist Church, Central Ave. Before and after the fire.] [Illustration: First Baptist Church and City Hall, Central Ave.] [Illustration: St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Hawthorne Street, which was entirely destroyed.] [Illustration: Y. M. C. A. Building, Bellingham Square, entirely destroyed.] [Illustration: Fitz Public Library, destroyed in the Big Fire.] [Illustration: Birdseye View of Chelsea, Mass. from Powderhorn Hill. The entire district shown in this view with the exception of the houses in the immediate foreground was entirely destroyed in the Big Fire.] [Illustration: Chelsea Square. The nearer end of this square marks the southern limit of the fire on Broadway.] [Illustration: Unitarian Church, Hawthorne Street.] [Illustration: Soldiers Monument at Union Park. It was to this Park that many of the burnt out families fled with their belongings.] A list of the more prominent buildings destroyed by the fire is given below, although this does not by any means include a complete list of the public or semi-public structures that were burned. CHURCHES Central Congregational Church St. Rose Catholic First Universalist First Unitarian First Baptist Polish Catholic Bellingham M. E. St. Luke's Episcopal Several Synagogues SCHOOLS Williams Grammar Frank B. Fay Shurtleff Bellingham Broadway Highland City Hall Shawmut St. Parochial PROMINENT BLDGS. City Hall Y. M. C. A. Building Odd Fellows Building Chelsea Trust Co. Chelsea Saving Bank Granite Block State Armory Public Library County Savings Bank