Garfield County News | 1927-08-05 | Page 6 | Blaze of Frisco Docks Costs $25,000

blaze of frisco docks costs san francisco damage estimated at was caused by a fire which broke out on the pier where sacks of sugar were being loaded into the british steamer icedore and destroyed sacks of sugar first reports said the fire was in the steamers hold but the flames did not spread to the vessel the icedore had just arrived from liverpool with a cargo valued at which was endangered by the fire the flames flamed believed started by spontaneous combustion shot forty feet in the air prompt ac tion by workmen on the pier who fought the fire with wet sacks until the fire department arrived was credited with preventing spread of the flames