Show BLAZE DAB AGES HOBOKEN PIERS TIMELY SHIFTING OF WIND PRE VENTS destruction OF NEW YORK WATER FRONT heavy loss of property result of big algi fire largest ship afloat was in flames no one injured in fire fighting now york shifting of tile wind early wednesday night saved the entire IIo Ilo boken bolien water front front what might have been tina tit most serious conflagration fla gration lit in Us its history As it was flan damage inge estimated from froin to w was is call od by the lie nie which broke out on oil aminy pier no 5 and rapidly APO dIns at one time lint setting the forward portion of ohp th glant giant IJ 11 S 8 leviathan largest still afloat in fit flames adjoining on oil pier no N 4 were flag draped baskets or of american soldier vir lend awnI awaiting tIng to rel rd athes or neatest of kin kill for a kimn it looked as if this pier too would lie be consumed but ft a slackening blackening of tho tha wind blow tile flames northward to ward the lie leviathan and tiler no 0 6 at the height of the danger ambulances bu lances rushed the coffins to it a safety zone surrounded by amerlean american soldiers from tile the thirteenth infantry barracks the army transport wheaton Wh caton willell for tile last tear has brought the soldier dead from france was towed out into the ho hudson und and an choked no one was injured during the two and anc half hours of fire fighting that brought out every available tillable ny piece of apparatus from hoboken jersey city and surrounding hudson courtly county cities rire fire boats from new york lined the water front pumping streams nt into tile hie blazing liters filers fire lines were established at tho the deleware deleat arc lackawanna rind and western railway station tion which early lit in the evening was ro reported ported to be afire thousands lined the ropes watching the blaze which in spectacular later inter it est tins has had no equal in the last decade flames lighted the entire district ll and great clouds of drifted down 0 ver over the tit p harbor and then swung backward over jersey city it was feat 01 first that the levin leia than wat a total loa prom from the manhattan side of the river the glant giant funnels funti els could le be seen apparently ini in tile the renter center points in a cauldron cauldren caul dron of 01 fl flames aines fire boast however which worked th thir their ir way into tile the pier slip played n continuous str stream ettin on tile ha shipping boards Kle Meph atit and aa sav ed her from destruction so threatening was tile the fire that nt jit one time soldiers were called upon to remove mail from the united stated pos torrice which seemed directly in the path pall or of the alanus fl anus nines apartment dwellers in sev several prall largo structure tur lit in the vicinity fled hiking belongings with them lots of army stores on oil piar 8 0 are a total loss allbough sold soldiers lers worked frant leally ally it to sno save them |