Long Island, NY Shelter Island Manhanset Hotel Fire, Aug 1896
Flames Wreck a Summer Hotel
NEW YORK, Aug 13. -- The Manhanset Hotel, at Shelter Island, one of the largest and most fashionable of the summer hotels on the Long Island coast, took fire early to-day. The whole south side of the hotel was burned, entailing a loss of $100,000. Most of the baggage of guests was saved.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA 14 Aug 1896
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