Spectacular All Night Blaze in Tooley Street Dock Area London, July 28.
The greatest conflagration banks of the Thames for years was seen yesterday when the century-old six storey wharf occupied by Messrs. Chambers, Ltd. The Waterway, Thames, was burnt out. The fire is believed to have been started by the spontaneous combustion of overheated peanuts.
The wharf is situated in what is known as the free danger-zone, namely, the Tooley Street dock area, where huge stocks of grain, peanuts and dessicated cocoanut are stored in warehouses.
he fire started yesterday evening, The flames were to be seen hundred fect high. Two hundred firemen from all over London battled with the conflagration the whole night long, aided by the fi monitor Beta ILL which shot water on the flames at the rate of 1,500 gallons a minute.
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