FIRES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 11

FIRES.

HUNDREDS HOMELESS. HUGE LOSSES IN JERSEY CITY. (BT ' cable— pbkss association— coptbight) (austkalian and n.z. cable association.) .NEW YORK, November 16. Nino hundred families sir© homeless, and damage has been don© to th© extent of 30,000,000 dollars through a hug© fir© in. paJnt and soap plants in, Jersey City. Many people weio overcome by the fumes, but there were no fatalities. Firemen rescued many sick people. One woman gave birth to a baby en rout© to hospital. THE AUCKLAND BLAZE. (rSB33 ASSOCIATION TTT.TiOBAK.) AUCKLAND, November 17. Estimates of the losses by the Albert street fire are as follows: — £ Guthrie Bowron Company .. 29,000 John Dickenson and Company 12,000 Cooke and Company .8000 Stanley Newcomb .. .. 5000 Hunter and Sons .. .. 4000 Auckland Millinery Company 500 Edwin Best and Company, G. A. Bond and Company, and the New Zd'ai land Textiles, Ltd., all lost several , thousands of pounds. The insurances are:—On the build- ! ing owned by Guthrie Bowron and I Company, £16,000 in the Northern Office; Guthrie Bowron and Company's stock, £13,000 in the Northern Office; Dickenson's stock, £7OOO in the Insurance Office of Australia; Cookfi ana Company's building £3000; Cooke and Company's stock and plant £SOOO, distributed between the New Zealand Insurance and South British Offices; Stanlev Newcomb stock £2250 in surance office; Hunter and Sons £oooo in the Victoria Office; Auckland Millinery Company, stock £3OO in tho youth British. At 11.15 p.m. the iron roof of Bowron 's building collapsed, followed by a portion of the north wall. Tons of brick ar.d mortar fell thirty feet on to the r-iOf of a smaller building through to the floor below. The firemen were just about to take the hose through the upper windows when tiho wall crashed. Portion of the debris, also a machine weighing a ton and a half fell to the first floor.