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GALVESTON PIER
CK:STILL FIX: FIRE WARD: LIVE
:38 Fire officials at Galveston say ap un-attended smouldering fixxki Cotton bale may have caused the 5-to-10-Million dollar fire at a two-square block pier at the Galveston Wharves overnight. Lost in the night-long blaze were two giant warehouses..half- filled with eleven-thousand bales of cotton and sacks of rice valued at an estimated 3-point-3 Million l .Two moored at the piers managed to back off before flames spread to them.The cotton bales were destined for Japan and Hong Kong. In addition to the cotton-rice and warehouses destroyed.. loading equipment including several heavy-duty cranes sustained heavy damage.Fire officials said the pier head..today..looked like a disaster area.