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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1930.
BIG WEST POINT BLAZE.
TWO BUILDINGS PARTLY GUTTED.
B
MOTOR FÄTALITY.
CHINESE FOUND LACKING. IN TRAFFIC SENSE,
Mr.Whyte-Smith, sitting as West Point district was again coroner with a jury composed of the scene of a spectacular fire, C. M. Soares and Mak Kam-chan, Messrs. E. W. Duggan (foreman), last night, when two three-storeyed held an inquiry into the death of Chinese buildings. Involving
Chinese named Cheung Sing, firm housing the sole agency for who was knocked down by a motor the Britannia Aerated Water Co.,lorry in Nathan Road on August and a Chinese medicine store, as 2, and died after admission to well as other businesses, were hospital. partly gutted in a big blaze which caused great excitement in the arca concerned.
Commencing about 10 o'clock, the fire acon got a strong hold in the first building, No. 169, Des Voeux Road West, near Its junction with Western Street.
It is believed that the Are originated in the Chinese medicine store, occupying the first floor of No. 169. It soor enveloped the second and third floors, used as Chinese tenements. A chorus of police whistles was followed by the shouting for assistance of Chinese women and children living in the top storeya, who were thrown into a state of panic by the sight of big volumes of flames and smoke shooting up from below. Appliances from the Central Fire Station and the Wanchal station, and fire floats, arrived almost immediately, fol Jowed by a contingent of Police.
Traffic Held Up.
Dr. K. Uttley said that on August 2 at 11 am. a Chinese to the Kowloon Hospital In a con- male, Cheung Sing, was admitted seious condition, suffering with severe pains in the abdomen and chest. He was operated on and died at 3.55 p.m., the same day. The next morning he was identi fed in the hospital mortuary. The post mortem examination revealed that six ribs on the right side were fractured and a rupture of the spleen. There was a considerable amount of blood in the abdominal cavity. The man died of shock, following a ruptured spleen and
haemorrhage. internal
There were a few abrasions ON de. ceased's chest and abdomen. The injuries were consistent with his having been run over by a lorry
Driver's Story.
The driver of the lorry, Pak Hang, Bald that he had been driv ing a Chevrolet lorry, for one month, prior to which, he had All trama and other vehicles driven a Ford lorry for a month. were held up for nearly two hours, On August 2 about 10.20 a.m., he during which time the firemen per was driving the lorry along formed excellent work, succeeding Nathan Road northwards. The In confining the fames to No. lorry was filled with a load of 169 ard No. 167, which later earth. At the junction with had become involved. The Argyll Street he noticed a private Brigade was under Mr. Brooks, car coming in the opposite direc-
He was following a motor) the Superintendent, and soon hadtion. hoses directed on, the burning bus. It was raining at the time. He was about 70 feet behind the building from Nos. 167 and 171.
The height of the building and bus, when a Chinese man rushed the congested condition of the out of Argyll Street and tried to floors demanded the concerted ac- cross the road between the bus tion of the fire fighters, confront-and the lorry. He noticed the man when he was nine feet away.
ed
with the difficult task of rescuing all the inmates from the upper storeys and directing the water to the top floor, which was burning fiercely by about 10.30. More than twenty Chinese women and children finding the sole means of escape by the staircase destroyed, resorted to the roof, and by, climbing precariously over parts of the root reached safety in adjacent buildings.
on the foot brake. The man still
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Shanghai, Aug. 27. The Band of the 1st Batt. According to Szechuan tele- Somerset Light Infantry gave a
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grams a big fire broke out at, concert at Wellington Barracks Chungking yesterday and gutted last night to a large gathering over 1,000 buildings and farm-which included the military, a houses. Many people have been strong contingent from the Navy rendered homeless.
and a number of civilians.
Witness sounded his horn and put kept on running and witness ther applied his hand brake and swerv ed to the left. It was too late, however, and the front right CHUNGKING DISASTER. bumper knocked the man down: Witness felt the lorry jump as if it had run over the man. Witness got down from the lorry and found the man lying under the running board Two Europeans The fire escape was sent up to came and assisted him to raise the the burning house, but it was man into the lorry and he then found that all the inmates had got drove to the Mong Kok police safely away, from the roof. The station, from where the man was Hon. Mr. E. D: C. Wolfe, Inspector removed in an ambulance to the General of Police, was pre-hospital. When the accident oc- sent, and besides the contingent curred the lorry was travelling at of policemen, members of the St. a speed of 12 miles an hour.
An earth coolie, Choi Wan, who THE EUROPE HOTEL, Ltd, John Ambulance Brigade, under Mr.
was sitting next to the driver nave Morris, as well as Boy Scouts, did meritorious work in aiding the similar evidence.
Sun Kim testified firemen, controlling the crowds and identified the body at the hospital-Reuter.
to having king has destroyed 6,000 houses."Beautiful Danube," and the "Maid
mortuary the following morning as that of his nephew. Witness said that the deceased was going to assist him at his store when he was knocked down.
Good Brakes. Sergeant F. J. Clark said that on
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Prompt Work Succeeds. It is considered fortunate that the Yuan Yuan Company, which occupied the ground floor of No. 169, escaped damage by the fire, which swept through the first, second and third floors, and the
Chungking is the foremost port on the Upper Yangtsze.
5,000 Houses Destroyed.
Peking, Aug. 28.
A huge conflagration at Chung-
Opening with a Poetic- March, the well-known "Vanished Army,"
the musicians proceeded to dis- PUDLO
course a variety of items, includ- ing a selection of songs, Strauss'
of the Mountains.” All these selections were played in the usual capable manner, as demonstrated under the running board. It was at other public concerts, and met one of those cases of which they with a ready response from an ap- had instances every day, of apreciative audience. person without any traffic sense! A gymnastic display given by the road, possibly because it was particularly interesting, some of rushing out and runnin
from "A" Company was
across men
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The concert concluded with an enjoyable evening to a close.
first, second and third floors of No. receipt of a telephone message he raining or because people out here the stunts being of a daring na- 167. The ground floor of No. 167 went to the Mong Kok police always wanted. to get across the ture. The instructor, Sergeant item entitled "Alpino, Echoes," in. houses Messrs. Sun. Lee Yuan, a station and from there he accom-road in front instead of behind Milla, is to be congratulated upon which opportunity was given for. Chinese firm which apart from panied the driver to the scene of vehicles. There could be only
the excellent spectacle afford-some excellent solo cornet effects. damage by water, also escaped. the accident. There were no skid one verdict, he thought. These houses were built only remarks at all owing to the heavy i
rain. He tested the brakes of the "death due to misadventure."
The jury returned a verdict of
The National Anthem brought an cently,
A Chinese tobacco firm, the lorry and found both hand and Kung Sheung Tobacco Company, foot brakes to be in perfect order. of No. 171, also suffered water He went to the hospital that same damage. So far as could be ascer-afternoon and saw the injured tained, all the Chinese firms to man. He identified the body the gether with the tobacco store were next morning, in the mortuary. insured.
It took the Brigade about half an hour to control the fire; and the engines and Police returned to headquarters about mid-night, although at a late hour the firemen were still searching the debris. It was feared that some of the in- mates might have been trapped in their slee, but up to the time of going to press no casualties had been reported.
A Chinese woman, an inmate of No. 171, complained to onlookers that in her hurry to escape she mis. placed her jewel case, which con- tained valuables worth over $1.000. She said that she was later able to recover part of the valuables.
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WHAT A BREAK FER ME: GUZZ LET'S ME GO HUNTIN JUST TA TRY OUT ONE
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Mr. Whyte-Smith, addressing the | jury, said that as there were no independent, eye-witnesses to the accident it was difficult to tell whether anybody was at fault or whether there was any negligence on the part of the driver. They had therefore to take the evidence of the driver and the coolie ac- cording to which there evidence of any negligence. A
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point in favour of the driver was that the brakes had been tested and found to be in good order. And another was that if he had
been travelling at ar ex.essive speed he could not have pulled up in so short a space and ke de- ceased would not have been lying
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