1927.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 19
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SPECTACULAR FIGHT AGAINST OUTBREAK.
FIRE BRIGADE'S STRUGGLE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
The flames broke through the ro-
every portion of the building. The did the other unit, but the floors firemen worked their way to lower gave way. For a time, it seemed structures on the aides and, al-as though the flames would be con- | though using the strongest jets fined to the area between two fire available which they poured in from walla, but other fames leaped these points of vantage, they were across and doubled their work in able to produce no effect whatso another area. Three quarters of ever upon the flames. The third the building was now affected. It floor, upon which the fire started, was not until 11.15 that the last soon gave way, then the next one fire wall was passed and, in a few The largest fire in recent years. the conflagration involving the above and, finally, about nine minutes, the entire building was a greatest loss since the fire in North o'clock, the roof crashed in with a total loss, Soochow Road, broke out on Dec. 1 roar which was heard throughout in the Chang Foong Mill, 4, Ichang the neighbourhood. A shower of inforced glass windows as if they Road, Shanghai, and completely sparks went up which threatened were paper and, as each window gutted the two largest buildings, to set the adjoining house on fire; crashed out, the flames leaped sky- one of which is quite modern, des- but vigilance on the part of volun- ward, and, when the whole was a troyed a smaller building, burned teer firemen and Chinese who had seething mass, the spectacle could several piles of grain and involv- not lost their heads prevented this, be seen from all parts of Shanghai. ed the greater majority of the com- About 20 minutes later, the side. Firemen could not approach the wall and one of the end walls new bullding on the windward side pany's property.
When the first word was received crashed in and, for the moment, because of the intense heat, and the firemen were handicapped, be they had to play their streams of the fire, Bubbling Well and Sinza cause their position became unten- from the one side and at oblique Divisions of the Shanghai Fire Briable. They had to desert the build-angles from the end. There was gade turned out in full strength,ing on the windward side which very little wind but the draught but it was scon, however, that they they had used, despite the tremen was terrific. As various portions had no chance and a general alarm, dous heat.
of the building fell in, the roof which brought out every releasable With the crash of this building, having gons, the upward swirl of machine and man, was given.
burning embers flew on to the piles air carried masses of glowing char- of grain below and the added hant coal as big as a man's list for smashed the modern wire windows several hundred yards, and more! of the unit adjacent. Flames leap than one casual spectator had hie ed across and the brigade thon was coat burnt. It was a hail of burn- confronted with a still worse situa-ing timber which fell directly over the roadway from which the fire- men were operating, It fell so A Spectacular Blaze, The French volunteers with their heavily on one machine that the attendant utilised a secondary hose brass helmets appeared on
to keep the machine from catch- scene and did all they could to as-ing on fire. Although there was sist the Settlement brigade, Capt. Read because of the illness of Capt. no wind to speak of below, the Dyson, gladly accepting their prof-smaller sparks were carried for a fered nid. New lines had to be quarter of a mile.
Insurance men were greatly in-
The mill was at some distance from the main fire hydrant and long lines of hose had to be run before an effective jet could be maintained. Other engines put their suction nozzlos into an ad- jacent creek and augmented the supply. The full strength of more than half a dozen engines could do nothing to impede the progress of the flames. Even at the time of going to press, it was not known whether the fire would be confined to its original limits.
Was it An Explosion?
tion.
the
peared that the grain piles were main structures but, when it ap
endangered, one quick-minded man soon had a gang of coolies, carry- Ing them outside the compound. This was still proceeding at mid- night but it is doubtful if they car- ried away ten per cent, of the grain involved. The premises are under- stood to be fully insured and it ly thought that the losses will amount to several million tacle...
Two of the main buildings in the run and the firemen worked their terested in the fire. They saw no-
way around behind. From the posite end, other detachments as- and are set at right angles to the sumed positions where it seemed newest unit of the plant. Between as they would be of some value. them were several large huts, fill-
The building was of modern con- ed with grain, while
on the op-struction and contained several posite side of the larger building tire walls and, away from the seat of the The structure was of
which ran across it. reinforced fire, were 28,000 bags of grain, The fre, started in what is called concrete and did not collapse as the Number One mill. Just what happened is unknown but a fairly authentic report has it that the en- gineers were starting the ma- chinery. The theory is advanced that electric sparka exploded some of the inflammable dust which is always in the air in a mill.
Within a few minutes, the build- ing was a roaring mass of flame. The wooden chutes used in trans- porting grain and flour, and the wooden elevators provided an ex- cellent draught and the flames shot from floor to floor without impedi- ment. Fortunately for the man- agement, two police officers, who got inside the small two-storeyed cleaning mill beside the one in which the fire started, closed a firo safety door, and, although blazing embers were banked against it man high, the door withstood all fre and prevented the smaller build- ing from burning, Strange, too, although the one side of the door had an unbearable temperature, the other side was cool to the
touch.
The flames from this building: ahot to a smaller building on the right and, within a few minutes, it
way a mass of flame,
The Outbreak Spreads.
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The heat was terrific and, within a few minutes, the flames had eaten through the roof. Broken windows below, and the open roof above, made a tremendous forced draught and, almost in shorter time than it takes to tell, there was, fire in hai.
Tho high piles of grain, one of which was between the two build- ings and the other on the far side of the second unit, formed a dis- tinet handicap to the firemen, who were not able, according to one. of their number, to act effectively.
Equipment Lost.
Perhaps one of the greatest rea- sona for the total loss of the build- ings was that the firemen could not get at the base of the flames, the pressure, there were 80 many streams laid on the fire, being very wesk and, at last, they had to con- tent themselves with protecting ad- Joining buildings, "The brigade forta considerable amount of of the rapid spread of the flames, and, equipment because the last fire wall gave away, there was a hurry and slurry to secure about a thousand feet of hose.
when
Earlier in the evening, when one of the walls fell in, four of the firemen were in imminent danger and three of them got away. There was some question about the fourth for a long time but he, too, finally appeared."N. C. Daily News."
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