Show PORTLAND DOCK OGK D BURNS Starts Fire That Gasses Causes CIU l Loa Less of ad sad Then Escapes Portland Ore March 10 If Victoria dock situated ted on OD the en east t bank ba ef of tile the tit Willamette river just north of ot the rail mil railroad road bridge was entirely destroyed f by fire tire about noon nOOD today together with wt tons of wheat and 2008 2005 tons tona salt stored tore on the dock The total loss lou ia Is estimated at t The insurance is about 34 0 It ie t oer r I tain that the fire was as started by bJ an W tn Q u WJ a man was Wail seen leaving lea the dIt dock after the fire had gained so eo BOOM neau way ay The police station was w notified as soon as possible but before fore an aa arrived on the scene ne the th man malt disappeared P Three times during the past put fortnight fires t have been started on docks do in Ia this 0 8 city and it Ia Is supposed that the same man JOan l Is responsible ible for ill all of them The e fire tire broke beck out oat on othe the do dock shortly Y benoon before bel be noon and nd U k looked for a while as though t the entire line hue of docks on the theof east Sid ae of the river would be burned and several times timet Irving Irvin dock adjoining adjoin inc caught tire but by diligent effort fert on oft Ute the part pan of the fire tire department the flames names were confined to Victoria dock doek and net a few small build buildIngs tags Ings In near by H It was w late Ute this afternoon before the fire was as entirely entirety under coo con control e trot and tonight the he great gnat piles of wh wheat ht hta are a still The a Amason was moored near r the dock arid hed it not been n for tor t the t If t that the wind win was blowing blo n fro ts ves vessel v vessel sel she ahe would have bw been n destroyed royed Several i veral small houses house tou near the Ule dock doek were destroyed dt the loss Iasi I on the house bouses aggregating gating The losses 1 Mt In detail are art as at follows Ten Tee TeaI thousand tons ton of wheat owned by Q th t the Northwest Warehouse Wa hoWie company n I fully Nosy Insured Two thousand tho ho qc sun tons tone tn cane eC OI c salt All t owned by T M II Stevens A to ta fully full Insured dock owned ow S E SW W Spencer 1660 JI insurance nce I Flour machinery sad and other mere merc Wired stared ed on the dock Earlier in the day da the half bal oak of nf frame buildings building bounded by tp Russell and Goldsmith strewn streets in AU AIM tIa not DOt far fr from trona Victoria Victon dock was str destro de destroyed troyed ed Eighteen families who ved m in Anthe inthe the block block were rendered homeless bo The ground floor wa win occupied by several small mall stores store The total otal tal loss Is II about |