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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1926.
.PRICE, $3.00 Per Month
$2,500,000 FIRE SWEEPS MAIN HONGKONG HOTEL BUN
SENSATIONAL OUTBREAK
Residents' lucky fscapes
seen in the exlier stages of the fre
the wander about verandahs of the upper storeys, their rooms probably being ablaze or dangerous of entry, and won- dering what they could do to help. Firemen were hang up hose by means of rope but soon all posi- the building.
DEATH OF A "HAWKINS" SAILOR.tions netually
Volunteer Workers' Heroic Efforts.
YESTERDAY'S.
DRAMATIC INCIDENTS.
Costly Damage By Flame And Water
This snapshot was taken by Lee Fong (No. 7, Wydnham St.) who climbed along the roof of Chin Building. In the centre are shown' the bare spots in the roof the Hotel when the fire bad already burred through to the top. Smoke
in cong out from the left) in masses and fames can be seen on the right.
A death' took place and damage was done to the extent of $2.500.000 as a result of a fire which swept the main building of the Hongkong Hotel yesterday, morning.
except the of the "hew" bufding facing up Road and the upper porti Peder Street, had to be vaenfode By
Verande light.
Flames began to fork out from, all the rooms on the two top storeys of the portion ofthe building facing Jardine, Mke son's und fromost of those or the two top sy in the more southerly porn. Soon, th woodwork and objects on the verandahs therrere alight and looking in frontline, Mathe- son's one could nothing but leaping flumes githese storeys.
Fire engines worki
Dos Va second flour. iniscellaneous property."
ave the grill room by bringing h
in scen strewn with mattres,
The absence and was, fed. less to say a vitably saving far The operation of a strong pres- was able to withdra What there wastlew from, rather sure hose by one of the fire Voeux Road and atta than to Jardines but the gravity brigade attached to the top of directly above the gre
Another hose then playeur un of the consequentes if it had been the four-section extension adder the other way easily to be (opened fully out) run up in the eastern tram line) corner Street from Alexandra Building (above imagined. As was, the safety the centre of Pedder
Watson's). of the parthily completed proved most effective in com-
When It Began. Exchange build had to be taken bating that part of the fire into consideration as there is much but little could be done to get at. With such amazing rapidity did the fire spread that efforts by the wol structures and # falling its heart. Firemen ventured on
Which can be
ignited spar ortegn a spark might the roof as far as they dared and staff and inmates to requisition MACKINTOSH
there:
have resulted conflagration la Scout was observed performing the hotel apparatus were of little
Avail wonderful feats, of coolness and
On the alarm going through one The whole decurrence was so balance in his endeavour to help forces of the brigade on the island sudden and thagnitude of the them.
were mustered but were too: Lask so great that organisation in Dense Smoke In Strests.
to cope with the extensi N the earlier stagea was difficult. For some time (this at 10.30
It was evident that d pressure was not enou allowed to drive over hose con-issuing from the roof running the fourth and fifth fears whe One even saw hey lorries being a.m.), dense volumes of smoke ducting water to the scene but as parallel to Fadder Street but the fans had obtained a soon as the muster of public farther back, had betokened that hold and were spring quickly. officers was sufficiently strong the tre had obtained a firm grip! The who bet this was remedied and when there but the strength of this grip
In
unit
the East Sumeys and naval men was net realised itil about 10:40 salvaged what they augmented hele habere teatters am, when with ado gnumber of resic The rougti Mee Cof progressed very rapidly. crowds which the police had to be quickly followed by othakked experienced a strenuous time in elsewhere.
Men of the brigade, the ser- the keeping under control were then!
course of thirty vices, the staff and volunteers The damage was done both by are and water, the flames sprending with kept within defined limits and minutes the roof no longer reared were inside different parts of the Pedder Street was kept clear of above the other parts of the build-burning hotel practically from Trunks ing the charred remains of the start till immediate danger had all traffic of any kind.
passed. and wardrobes hurtled through beams which had supported it space and crashed with terrific uniting with those of the older Obatacles to the work were impact in Pedder Street, the building in a scene which, looked beaten down, hoses on adjacent belongings of the residents being at from the top, was one of buildings
were directed by indescribable, burning desolation snipers" on precarious spots and strewn all along the roadway.
Fears were entertained at one both furniture and Attings were Deluge of Furniture.
time by those above who judged disposed of with titanic strength. Inflammable furniture The blaze had been reduced to the smouldering state by three o'clock, when effects were thrown out in this considerable portion of the build-impossible to single out names for and merely on appearances, lest any Under such circumstances it is manner from all floors, soaked ing could be saved, but the damage special gallantry.
fearful rapidity and tons of water having to be pumped into the building.
The Fire Brigade worked valiantly under" severe handicaps. The loss would huse been mách greater but for the tireless assistance of Service men and other voluntary helpers. **
Many residents had quite exciting escapes, some actually being roused from
their beds to leave the burning building.
The fire began shortly before nine, but such was the grip it soun guined, the danger of total loss was not averted until about twelve o'clock.
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Barricades were erected around the scene of desolation in the street,
FROM CHINA BUILDING..
A
air, some falling across cable
.
Nevertheless
Within an hour or so of the first
brigade turned out smartly and bedding, mattresses, articles of all was confined chiefly to the upper there were some who did alf] pumps were got into operation at description floating through. the storeys on account of the sub-humanly possible, regardless of
stantial nature of the building personal danger. The rapidity with which the BlakePier. Pressure was not strong wires and other chatructions Fire did break out in places on the flames spread and the grip it enough, however, for the height and lying limply in the air, third floor through falling blazing How the Flames Spread..... established on the structure in a and extensive surface over which looking. grotesquely out of debris but it was on the fourth alarin, Pedder Street and that appreciated by those who were certain number of hoses were got place with the flaming back and fifth floors that most damage part of Des Voeux Road: Central short space of time could be best the flames were distributed. able to view the scene from the inside the building but doors and ground: Hotel residents, some was done.
in night attire and dressing. roof of China Building.
walls prevented these from getting gown. only, watched the destruc- Within an hour, and a half of the right on the spot. Warning being given to the hotel residents to clear. flames were
The Water' PAssure.
tion from points of vantage. "That's my room, in there," one
а
were Eke a rich Chinese village. after thorough looting by FROM PEDDER STREET.
bandits. Had it not been for the cracking flames above and, the Although they were not sum-occasional dropping of red-hot The only places where there was was overheard remarking on an moned so early military were cinders over the verandahs, the beling the verandalls of the fourth possibility of the hoses being used adjacent roof. "That's my ward-na first to "get into action" wir sie might hapa heap that of the and fifth storeys of the buildings with any considerable effect were robe blazing away there too." a hose of sufficient pressure. A end of a siege. An ominous boom facing Fedder Street. A huge the roof of the hotel itself, the
A remarkable pherun wit- handful of Surrey lads got into now and then lent colour to the tongue of swirling, licking flames root of China Ruding the event by "Chine Mail" repre- Jardine's and were soon perched supposition as did the carrying shooting up from the middle verandahs and roof of Jardine's sentative was the survival on a perilously on the parapet and the out of a sailor, who had been hetokened where had once been building but it was a long time verandah on which the flames scaffolding. Their Jet did much mortally hurt through a bad fail. the lift shaft, a spark from the even here before the requisite appeared to have got as strong a towards subduing the blaze in the willing hands put him on a dis- installation in which, it was on pressure was obtained to get the hold as anywhere, of a poker table Pedder Street corner, especially carded mattress and he was taken every one's tongue, had led to the water to carry that far. Just a and cloth. All around this table on the fourth floor.
the into the C.P.3. passenger office conflagration.
few feet more carry on them and the flames were licking but when Not long afterwards, anöther'
of its hose, was pouring into the upper rendered on the spot and the where medical attention Was It was not until getting on for the streams would have got there after half an hour two hours after the first warning but as it was, a powerful jet from being kept under observation the verandahs close to the main en-motor ambulance had moved ap that the brigade was able to play China Building fell just short of hose got the fre under in this trance. These two streams ren- within a minute or so, on the building water with force the main centre of conflagration.' quarter, the table was still intact dered such good service that the
enough to be effective. The Awakened residents could be
The Arat three bower “id wation."
Surreys;, Chinava dimrian is at the top of the extension ladı middle); and the lower jet was handled by
and the cloth fluttering in what engine with the extension ladder breeze, there was.
"Pet? Table.
Meeting the owner of this table by chance later in the day, the newspaper mat was informed that the table ha eventually been burnt in the late afternoon. An overcoat and bat observed on a peg in one of the room survived for an astonishing-time with the room practically gutted and flames everywhere...
From China Buildings one could} see the Bluejackets inside tho burning building working like Trojans. Two in particular, attracted the attention by renson of the practical way they set about getting the better of the fire. Using polar and feat ze battering rams they made their way along the verandahs, exercising coolness and bravery in the task of beating down doors and other obstacles beltind which the flames were playing in order that the foss the1 behind them might work the more
efficiently
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