FIRE ON BROOKLYN PIER
: ■* STEAMERS AFFECTED. ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Router's Telegrams. NEW YORK. August 21. (Received Aug. 22, at 0.10. a,m ) Damage to the extent of £250,0C0 was done by a fire on the Brooklyn Pier. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused the fire, which spread to steamers loading for Europe. Naval gunners threw a quantity.of ammunition overboard.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17089, 22 August 1917, Page 5
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62FIRE ON BROOKLYN PIER Otago Daily Times, Issue 17089, 22 August 1917, Page 5
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