SKY-SCRAPER ABLAZE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 88, 14 April 1927, Page 7

SKY-SCRAPER ABLAZE.

Seething Furnace 44 Storevs High. NEW YORK THRILLER. < NEW YORK. April 13. One of the most spectacular fres in tie history of New York occurred A blaze, tfa* orig-.n of which Is unknown, started oa the Sv.i floor o: •the new Sutherland Hotel, a building 44 storeys high. :r. Fifth Avenue. I The hotel, which wa« in r-rocess of c;stroction. was surrounded c- all side-s " ~T immense wooden scafcidmr. which ~. quickly ignited and made the "buildiac one huge torch. The fames illuminated the whoie c.tv ■* and caused the traffic to be stor-ped for ' miles around, the embers falimg into a the neishbour.m: street*. The f.remen could not §hh: the fre. ,; »« the wat#r ha.* not vet been laid on r to the buiidmr. and their hose* were a torn to bit* under the downward pressure of gravity and the upward pressure '' from the force of the pumps which were ;: ised in an attempt to lit the wj-.e* *' from the street level. tl Great beams, which were burning riercely. fell from a heght of JOOft above ~* the street and crashed like canno ß "'*:is. '"' endangering the lives of th* nrcmen u