THE COCHRANE STREET COLLAPSE.
THE ENQUIRY REOPENED,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1901.
land was my assistant, and on his resignation NOTES FROM NATIVE PAPERS. Mr. Xavier was appointed. Refore Mr. Haze- land took over the duties a Mr. Sample was with me as an assistant engineer. I had the whole of his time for Building Ordinance work.
SHANGHAI, September 19ib..
DEMANDING EVACUATION.
Intimrations.
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The re-opened enquiry into the circum- Bath Mr. Hazeland and Mr. Xavier were some that, two days after the signing of the and FINAL DIVIDEND of 24 cents
stances attending the Cochrane Street collapse was resumed at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Haroland.
times called away toʻperfrom other work. Until Mr. Pearson resigned in June of last year he gave his whole time to the work. After he resigned there was no overseer at all; the work increas. d enormously.
Mr. Tooker Over and over again.
Reference, which is reported elsewhere, was made to the death of Mr. Francis, K.C. The first witness called was the blacksmith who
Mr. Bowlry Mr. Tooker, we don't want to occupied No. 33. Cochrane Street. He said.go into details; Have you made representations I carried on business at No. 33, Cochrane to the head, of your department about the Street until the time of the collapse, The innufficiency of your staff? shop was there for a year and a half, · Amag other things I made varandab brackets, rail. ings, and water pipes. The heaviest things made in the shop were brackets and railings I supplied them to contractors. All the work of the shop was done on the ground floor. The forge was in front of the kitchen at the back part of the shop. It was nearer to the wall of No. 34, In going from the front of the cook house there was' not room enough for anyone to pass be tween the forge and the party wall. The stair- case was on the same side, and a long working bench stood between it and the forge. The
anvil was three lest in front of the forge and there was a back and a, sheet iron bood to the forge When the premises were altered the for which was made of brick and morter, was taken down,
Mr. Bowley Did you not, on Saturday, tell me the forge was not removed?,
Witness-I thought you meant the other part. The forge was not moved.
Continuing, he said :-The alterations to the premises made the shop deeper The staircase was moved out abom two feet. At the time of the accident I was away from the shop, and had been absent since the 12th August. Most of the materials belonging to the premises
were stored on the ground in the middle of the shop. A quantity of short pipes was stocked against the wall of No. 30 and on the other side of the shop there was a table which took up the room and prevented the pipes being stored there. I bal a number of brackets
against the wall of No. 3, upon which were stored a quantity of pipes. The nails to be seen on the party wail of No 34 were used for
the purpose of holding small pieces of iron.
Mr. Bowley:-Did you have any iron that side?
Continuing witness stated:-I have been obliged to give less and less time to the Bulld. ing Ordinance work because other duties, to which I had to attend, increased very con- siderably. I received notice A. and plans B. and C. early in November, and after looking at them to see they were in order I passed them to the M.O.H. The went out of my hands on November 6th; the M.O.H. wanted the width of the street verified, and I sent Mr. Crisp to take measurements. Į issued a permit, marked D to the architect with the plan. Notice F. and plan E. were received on the 17th December, and after examined them I passed them to the M.O.H. Mr. Crisp was set to measure the street, and on the 19th December 1 issued permit G.
A Peking dispatch, states, that it is reported:
tocol, Viceroy Li Hùng chung tent a confiden, tial Secretary to the Russian Logation to call on the Russian Minister and inform the intic that the Chinese Plenipotentiaries had received instructions from Hsian ordering them to make a formal demand for the evacuation of Man. churis, since the Protocol bad now been signað and peace assured between China and all the Powers. The alleged reply to this on the part. of the 'Russian Minister was a characteristic
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HOLDERS in the above Company will matters. I regret to say that I have no authority DAY, the 28th instant, at Noon, for the purpose be held at the Company's Office on SATUR. to deal with such a large fuestion as the of receiving the Report of the General Mana evacuation of the Manchurian provinces.gers, together with a Statement of Accounts to The best way for your Plenipotentiaries to 30th June, 1901 do would therefore be to communicate with the Minister of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg, who has power to deal with such important matter," or words to that effect Apropos of the news published yesterday morning that Yuan Shih-kai, the Governor of Shangtung, had also demanded the evacuation of Chinese territory by the German troops who have been guarding the Shantungl railway line under construction, this seems to have also been done under instructions from Hsinn, like the Plenipotentiaries intended demand on the Russian Minister at Peking. As a matter of fact, Yuan Shih-k'ai has better grounds for making such a demand on the German Mr. Crisp, and Mr Xavier have told us authorities at Tsingtao, as he has been able to that neither of them inspected. the houses. keep the peace easilytjin his province without Was there any other officer in the Depart-extraneous aid, while it has been different so ment who could have inspected them ?--No. far with the Manchurian province.
Mr. Bowley Did you, Mr. Tooker, at any time before the accident inspect either of these houses yourself?
Mr. Toaker: No.
Are we to take it there was no inspection by
anybody whatsoever from the time the plans were submitted either before or after they were kind whatsoever by any officer in the Depart approved-There was no examination of any
ment either before or after the approval of the plans.
Continuing, Mr. Tooker said-Except with the approval of the D. P. W. the walls of the lower storey must be of red brick, and no party wall can exceed 35 feet in length except with a return or cross wall. The D. P. W. instructed me not to enforce the letter requirement in any case. That was because of representations made by architects in the Colony. As to the solidity Mr. Hazeland; Tell this witness to be careful and thickness of the walls, the bonding of the What did you have there?
Witness,--No.
You said you had.
The witness-Some things. Continuing he said-The cookhouse was used for storing sundry iron, and the cooking was done on the first floor. On the verandah were a few stools. There was not a scrap of iron stored there. No spare anvils were kept on the first floor. The verandah brackets were made of flat iron bars about three inches wide. I bent the iron brackets into shape and cut them to the proper length. I also 'bent them, and cut holes in them. Twenty fokis slept at No. 32.
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Sergt. Garrod said:-I first saw the fallen houses in Cochrane Street about eleven o'clock 'on the night of the 14th August. There was a fire burning on the ground floor, and it took the best part of an hour to extinguish it. The
brick work, and the foundation the D. P. W, has discretion in old buildings, but not as to new ones. With respect to old buildings the
D. P. W has direction whether he will allow
alterations or add tions.
Mr. Bowley is it not imperative for, the Survey General or his officers to supervise the work, that is, according to section 75 7
The witness am acquainted with section 75, but would rather not express an opinion,
His Worship I think we have evidence it was not inspected' at all.
Witness Plans B. and E. show there were foundations. It is the universal practice of architects not to show foundations of old walls, because it is unreasonable to expect the whole of them to be uncovered,
Mr. Bowley Is it the universal practice of. the P. W. D. to approve of a plan submitted
frant walls and verandahs of both houses had by a European architect without knowing
fallen across the road and there was about ten feet of the party, wall between the two houses, standing at the back oft e premises. The other portion had fallen. The floors had also fallen at an angle, the higher portion being against the standing wall. It was my special duty to clean up the street until the work was finished. It occupied ten days. The supports ofthe verandah I found in the side channel on the east side of the street. They had practically fallen right down. I only found the verandah fittings, and saw no signs of any fittings having been stored upon it. The whole of the material on the ground floor was turned over, When search was made for corpses I found à quantity of fron rods, pipes etc., at the north side of the black smith's shop. There was no indication of iron having been stored on the south side. I not iced a working bench on the south side of the premises. In turning over the debris if there had been iron'stored at this end of the premises I should have noticed it.
The blacksmith, recalled, said;-I háð no cockloft as sketched in exhibit H. on the ground floor of No. 32. There was a wooden frame standing on the floor.
The owner of the premises was re-called and his evidence read over. He said: The cockloft, which was made of wood extended across the shop from one party wall to the other.. It was ten feet deep and was nearly half filled with material. It was there when I bought the
house.
His Worship-There was a collapse. In Wilmer Street, just below the Hospital Do you remember that Mr. Tooker?
Mr. Tooker-I remember that. His Worship: -There was a big cockloft there which collapsed and killed the people beneath. Witness continning; I did not notice'a cock- loft in the blacksmith's shop. The staircaser were moved ·put 'one or two feet. The cubicles in the house were fixed up by the Romanti There were beams extending from -ace party wall to the other, larger and stronger - than ordinary floor foists. The staircase rest- ed upon the larger end of the beams and when the staircases were removed the beams
on the first and second floors had also to be
13moved.
Mr. Hugh Pollock Tocker deposed (-1 carry "out the duties, of Director of Public Works under the Building Ordinance, and have done
whether the foundations are good or bad?
The Witness Yes: That has been the practice for the last to ygata,
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In further examination Mr. Tooker said - The plans do not show whether the brick are blue or red, or if the bricks are properly bonded and solidly 'built, That could not be shown except on a plan drawn to large scale. It is desirable before exercising my discretion of approving of alterations and additions to old works to make a personal in- spection. It is not possible to inspect found ations of old buildings without having them opened up. The plan B. of No. 3 Cochrane Street shows the wall is to be raised to a beight of so ft. That is the maximun for a wall of the thickness of the one in question. Looking at plan. B. it does not appear that in all probabi- lity the lower party wall was higher than 50 ft. Each wall in plan B was practically up to the same height. The floor level of No. 32 is a foot above the top of the footing of the found- ation. The plan, therefore is inaccurate. If the work was carried out in accordance with the plan the wall would be so feet 6 inches bigh. If the plan had been drawn correctly it would have shown that the wall was over so feet in height, and, therefore, poi in accordance with the Building Ordinance. The footings are 3 feet 101 forbes below the floor of No. 34, and if the wall bad been built in accordance with plan E it would have been 53 feet 41 inches in height and therefore not of the thickness required by the Ordinance. It is never the practice of the P. W, D, to open up foundations. The Archi tect is always relied upon to ascertain - the depth of the foundations,"
The Court then adjourned for tiffip.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
STEALING.
Mr. T. D. Guedes of Messrs. Guedes & Co charged Kwok Tak with stealing one copper vegetable dish of the value of 12. The defen- dant was sent to prison for six weeks.
STEALING.
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po since 1890, During that period the work ⠀⠀⠀ Mr. R. Gutlerror, of the Post Office,charged
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