| Show SKYSCRAPERS ARE A GREAT DANGER Parker Building Considered to be Fireproof Burned Almost Like Tinder S WATER REACH TOP New York Fire Department Had Been Dreading Just Such SuchA SuchA S A Conflagration 1 Says SS Deputy Chief That Water Wlter Toners rowers Cannot Reach Beach hoe Floor loor New ew York Jan 11 With the first of ot day da when this morning ni scores ot or firemen began the task t it ot of searching marching in lu tho the ruins Of r the tho Parker building at street and Fourth avenues for the bodies of 01 the three o firemen who were reported missing aft after er the calling of o tho roll rol of ot tho the com corn companies companies that took ook part In I lighting Ln this particular fire that destroyed the tha 13 1 story building last Jast night caused a ti I to tOss tOS s variously estimated at at amounts lag Ing In or Although accounted fireproof the great build buildIng Ing imig burned almost like Iko tinder time the tle fire in lit II tho the upper stories gaining 1 Cl headway unchecked as ass 11 It wa was far be beyond yond ond tho tile reach lach of even the fire fr de do departments great water ater towers tower Sensa Sensational rescues were tho the feature of oC tho Uio ho lIre Ire Five men len who were Wre at work on 0 Limo tho top floor of ot the tho building were cut cutoff cutoff off oft from rescue from below and amid sought the roof root where wh re they stood d against tho tue flames Dames which had hud broken through the tho roof From l rom the top ot of otan 11 an nit adjoining building several stories lower louer than the thc blazing one on a I line lne Wax W R shot up from a it I mortar and ant with this timis line Huo the tho beleaguered men muon drew up a I stout rope which they thoy fastened to a 1 chimney sliding down to tho lower loer roof In safety S DREADED SKYSCRAPER For months the tho lire Iho department has has been dreading a a ito fro In IL a skyscraper und although the tho Parker building was only emily 13 stories In height the fate tate of one ono of cit f the tho modern mo em buildings of ot t twice that height Is b easily euly Imagined from lust lost nights experience excellence Tho ho water viter pressure presure even een when augmented by the tle force of the tue largest engines In the de do department pertinent was not sufficient to raise time the water to a it I point anywhere near tho tIme top of ot the tho building When the tho now no suit Salt SILI water ater high pressure mains arc aro completed say this title fault will vIII willbo willbe be bo no longer so 50 prominent At an al early catty hour this or order 01 tiers der def were ero Issued closing tho the subway which rum run post past tIme tho burned building No trains were allowed d to run In tho the block between the Fourteenth stra l t land and ld street stations the tha II Eighteenth street station being oPP opposite site sito sl tho the burned bulling Shuttle trauma s ran mn north norh of O the street trl t and south of Fourteenth street treet to the thu next station provider provided ed with switching facilities FluE FIE UNDER CONTROL The rho tire fire tre W nua officially declared to tobe tobe tobe To be under und r control soon after 7 o but Deputy Chief warned w tho tIme pollee polo to t keep crowds as I far away 1 as rum possible from tom the wrecked wrel ed building as M there was W great danger dUger that It might collapse aa WI I a result oi ot the tho con contraction traction of tho the steel girders as IS they cooled Tithe This resulted rele In a 1 complete of or tho the Fourth avenue trolley line lino Uni and It was W not expected that any cars ar would go over tho the Eighteenth street wot during dating tho the day la laTho The Tho subway service which had hod hll been resumed d during the time early cony rush tush hours was WM suspended shortly after 9 owing to fear of 01 the tho th officials that thai the wreck of the Parker building might collapse anti and all crash through Into the underground tube tubo After Acer that hour no lie trains welo run rn between Grand Cen Cn Central 10 tr l station stati n at nt street anti Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street During hf he hI forenoon It I was wn not at nt all 11 certain ceraIn when chien hen tho the great gent underground highway highwaY would bo be reopened to traffic The official of the Ra Ito Rapid Il pid Transit company sold said hud acted tecI upon a from the tho fire department From Information given by b tho th oc oe occupants of ot tho surrounding buildings It I Li i believed that hat tho the lire fire pro lure gross gr fully an atm hour before It was WI ilk din covered Supt Supt Fullerton Flor on of or Am Mn American lithographic company directly across ross the tho from tho the burned building tuH w today that that fully an hour before betro olMo the alarm laIm was WI given Riven ho emell 1 1 smoke Imoto anti and Ind had bual a thorough search cach made on avery floor noor of ot his hi bidding An hour later the tue firemen were ere In poises sion Ilon of otono ono one of tho the upper floors floor oo of ot tha Uio American Lithographic company turn turning turning ing In a it I Hood flood of water tor on the Parker S building DEPUTY TALKS ALI ALIDor Dor ut Chief raid Tho Tue fact fat that the thu Ore lImo gained ned grest great was WI due dUl entirely entire to of or water There Them are aro re two linth mains mainson on en Fourth avenue There Thero IK Is no pros slice euro whatever In tire the side streets streel there thero tire aro ro mains anti and on Broad Broadway Broadway way there Is a it 1 main Hut nut the pro pressure Kuro from froni the Broadway main was wa I more tItan than half bruit lost host a iK as a a result ot of o the tha distance from the tire Many Man of or the engines worked under r vacuum Instead of or 15 IS to 1 fl pound which In tin 11 ordinarily found Cound In io the tho treet treel hydrant 1 It I shows shown that at nit the time jimmie In New York continued the tho deputy duet chief tho the water towers cannot reach above the tha th eighth floor of ot the poor 1101 water pressure p the tho three water warr towers to the live alarms had to th t be laid aside side sider S Mrs r who meito ho thed red on Oil thin tho had hail to be taken out of ot a t third I story window by b Conning Coming down the Inciter she ho tell fell rel 20 0 fret feet to the and WIl sent lont tu to a I hospital hO badly U Injured A number of ot outer other parsons were over ocr overcome como come by moke smoke while several were trees moro more or loin lean 1011 burned before bee thoy were WI carried out ot of the building |
