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Show oo , j Five-story Warehouse FiedWMASop-I FiedWMASop-I plies Burning. INCENDIARY ORIGIN Fireboafs Struggle in Ice Floes to Get Near Building. NEW YORK, Jan. 16-Fire In a big 5-story warehouse filled with government gov-ernment food supplies, located on the Brooklyn water front, broke out this forenoon. Four alarms have been turned turn-ed in. Accumulation of ice Is preventing prevent-ing aid from fire boats. An hour after the discovery of the blazo it was estimated $500,000 damage dam-age had been done. Three fire boats were struggling with ice floes in midstream mid-stream endeavoring to get near the flame-enveloped building. The structure, known as the Robinson Robin-son stores of the New York Dock company, occupies nearly an entire block. Fire Marshal Brophy hurried to the scene after the fourth alarm and began be-gan an investigation of reports of incendiarism. |