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Rome Daily Sentinel
Monday, 6 August 1934

        BUFFALO TO PROBE WAREHOUSE BLAZE
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        400 New Automobiles Destroyed in 
           $500,000 Lakefront Fire
           
        Buffalo, Aug. 6 (AP) - Authorities
      began an investigation only in an 
      effort to determine the cause of the
      $500,000 fire which razed a big ware-
      house, destroyed 400 new automobiles
      and burned an abandoned Great Lakes
      steamer to the water's edge last night.
        Four men were injured in the fire
      which caused the greatest single loss
      in the city since May 4, 1931, when
      the 106th Regiment Armory was destroyed.
      EDWARD BRANCH, 20, EDWARD MAHER, 20, 
      and LESTER W. SWOPE, 40, were overcome
      by smoke. HUGH W. SMITH, 69, watchman,
      was burned on the hands and face. All
      are confined to hospitals.
            Ships, Buildings Threatened
        Several ships and buildings of marine
      companies were threatened as the blaze
      sent showers of sparks along the shores
      of the Blackwell Canal, leading from
      Lake Erie.
        Approximately 30 fire companies *fight
      the flames* (sic) were summoned to 
      fight the flames which started in the
      former Lehigh Valley Railroad freight
      house, in use for warehouse purposes. The
      building was a one-story structure of wood
      and corrugated sheeting. It was 1,400 feet
      long on the south shore of the canal.
        An hour after the fire started, flames
      spread across the canal and ignited the
      Oakwood steamer that formerly plied the
      lakes. It burned to the keel.
        The fireboat poured four streams of
      water into the blazing warehouse for more
      than two hours. Two score hoselines were
      directed on the flames from the shore.
        The building had been used for storage
      of new automobiles shipped from Michigan
      on lake steamers. THOMAS H. HANRAHAN, 
      president of the Buffal Freight Terminal
      and Warehouse Company which owned the
      structure, said the machines had an average
      value of $1,000. This would place the loss
      in automobiles alone at $400,000.
        Telephone, telegraph and power lines 
      running near the fire also were destroyed.
      This raised the loss to near the $500,000
      mark.
        The automobiles destroyed arrived only a
      few hours before the fire broke out. Workers
      had just finished storing them.
        Employes of the freight concern removed
      approximately 500 machines from a building
      nearby when it appeared the flames would
      engulf that structure also.
      
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