Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-10 | Page 13 | Fire at Aberdeen Shipyards

Fire at Aberdeen Shipyards. ABFKJjEEN. Was.:., May 0. Fire C mysterious origin tonight destroyed. 4000-ton twin screw wood steamer hu in an advanced stage of construction, ml joining ways, shed and dock, at the Gray Harbor Motor Ship corporation shipyox here. The total loss is estimated a $500,000. A favorable wind, driving the flame and smoke over the harbor, appears t have been all that f.aved from destruc tion the entire plant with three lncom pitted hulls and seven vc-sscls moored a its docky. The fire was discovered short ly after 5 o'clock, and at the same tin. another blaze under the machine sho docks arpeared. The latter was extin guished by employees.