Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-02-10 | Page 1 | Freight Pier Destroyed

FREIGHT PIER DESTROYED I Oven Two Hundred Carloads of Flour Burned New York Feb 9Fire destroyed P pier G of the LehIgh Valley Railroad company at Jersey City this morning and the loss Including damage to shipping Is 250000 Fire tugs fought valiantly from the river side but the 1 city fire department was ordered to i drive over n mile of railroad tracks to reach the pier which was doomed before be-fore the department reached It The pier was fiOO feet long and 120 feel wIle and had n second story I was covered with corrugated Iron The I floods were of yellow pine I contained I con-tained 211 carloads of flour in barrels j and sacks Carloads vary from 100 to 200 barrels to the car There was approximately ap-proximately 40000 barrels of flour on tho j pier valued at 3 a barrel or sack 1