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Show O O C O FIREMEN OVERCOME AT SULPHUR HRE BLAZE CAUSE OP HUGE LOSS III GALVESTON Fumes From Burning Brimstone Brim-stone Strike Down Firemen at Docks in Texas DEPARTMENT CHIEF RECEIVES WARNING Damage Will Exceed Two Million Mil-lion Dollars. Say Early Estimates Esti-mates of Owners GALiVKSTOZf, Tax.; Sept 30. Fire originating In sulphur bins at Pier 3i .1 I O'clock this morning spread rap-ldl rap-ldl along the water front resulting in the b atruetldn of Pier 35 with its content! con-tent! partial destruction of the plant of the cotton concentration company .lust south of the pier, and loss of 350a hales of cotton In tho plant, along With other commodities. The fir, ' was still burning at 9 a. m. hut was under control The Italian steamship Ftna with a cargo of wheat was still on fire, Several stream of watei were tpg pumped into the ship, it was believed tbut the cargb Would be ;i total loss and damage to cargo and ship was estimated at 11,-nnO.000. 11,-nnO.000. -- I R l.l si t ( ESS The loading devices of the sulphur plant where the fire originated and bins In the-nulghborhood of Pier 35 ,,. 1, destroyed) although some of the sulphur storage bins escaped The firewall fire-wall on the east side of the Pier 36 nr. m nted the sread of the flames to that pier S( veral steamships In 'he vicinity of the fire were moved to places of safe-tv safe-tv Tin .-, ship- were the Hornsby - 'as-tie. 'as-tie. British; Erken, Swedish, and the Ventura de Lrrlnga, L'.rltlsh MUCH C OTTON LOST. It WOS reported that fifteen care of cotton were destroyed. All the fire fighting apparatus of Mi, lt. the fir boat ("liarb-s Clark and aevsrol tugs responded 10 the alarm Great difficulty was encountered encoun-tered In lighting the tire because of the high wind which was blowing at about thirty miles an hour. Early today It was impossible to estimate es-timate the total losses it seemed certain, cer-tain, however, that the losses would , cceed two million dollars. Forty freight cars on tracks at the sulphur plant were destroyed. A high density cotton compress under construction con-struction near Pier 30 was saved. I IKFMI N OVERi MI Several firemen were overcome ly fumes from the burning sulphur but none of them were In a serious condition. condi-tion. More than a hundred national guardsmen have been on duly at the fire The plant of the Anchor Milling company, a cottonseed cake grinding plant, situated just north Of the Pier sr. was destroyed, No estimate of this loss has been made. The steamship Franconla in the slip nt I n 1 8 I was endangered but escaped with onlv minor damage Fiie t hi. f Ryan received a letter yesterdaj postmarked from some city In Canada, warning him that "sou arc going to be destroyed." The letter, which he took as the work of a crunk, was signed "John " . ri i iN.il RED. forty firemen w-re affected by iiinies of lhc l 1 1 iiiui. sulphur shortly after their arrival al Pier 3... Captain Thibcdoux was struck by a flying timber tim-ber and was taken to his home. According t Kl McCarty, fireman on a barge at Pier 3S. the fire started at 1:40 p in. at which time he v. smoke and a small blai.e in about the center of the aulphur bins. He imme-d imme-d lately gave the alarm An explosion Inside the sulphur plant he believed to have 1 1 asvsral oil contalpt rs o cur red about 3:15 a. m-. Fire chief Ryan laid 00 |