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Show FLAMES DESTROY MUNITIONS OF WAR Secret Service Men Probing Cause of Costly Blaze on Baltimore Piers. T-JA T.TIMORLL Md.. Oct. 30. One of the larprt'M fires In Baltimore since the great on narration in Februnry, 1904, that destroyed de-stroyed the business section of the city, broke out tonight on the big piers of tho Ualtlmore & Ohio railroad at its terminal on the south aide of the harbor. On the piers were stored vast quantities of munitions and supplies for the American Ameri-can forces in France unci their allies. Many cases of shells exploded. Within Uiii minutes after the flames were discovered dis-covered the entire structure -was ablaze. Fifteen of tho crew of a British steamer lying at the pier leaned overboard and it is feared some of them were drowned. A dozen or more men employed on the pier are mining". It is reported that the fire was of incendiary in-cendiary origin. 1'nited states secret service men are investigating rumors that suspicious looking look-ing men were seen hnrrving from the vicinity vi-cinity a few minutes after the fire was discovered. The loss probably will reach eeveral millions. |