Table I.
Fires during the year 1911.
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. No. of Buildings Destroyed. Damage. Cause. Remarks. Wholly. Partly. $ 4 Jan. 2nd 5.15 am. House No. 206 Queen's Road West, 1 3,140 Unknown. 5 6.30 p.m. S.S. "Nord", Kowloon Docks 45,000 Workmen using naked lights in the hold. 6 3rd 7.50 p.m. House No. 61 Battery Street, Yau Ma Ti. 1 1,200 Unknown. 7 4th 2.10 a.m. House No. 6 Des Voeux Road Central, 1 35,030 8 7th 7.00 a.m. House No. 180 Un Lung Village, Kowloon City, 1 100 Overheating of kitchen flue. 9 7th 4.15 a.m. A matshed at Ap Na Liu Village, Cheung Sha Wan. 1 38 matsheds 14,000 Spark from cookhouse igniting dried grass. 10 11th 3.30 p.m. House No. 2 Sung Hing Lane, 1 4,000 Unknown. 11 14th A building in course of erection in Queen's Road East near Spring Garden Lane. 1 500 Throwing a lighted cigarette on shavings. 12 20th 5.45 p.m. House No. 56 Jardine's Bazaar, 1 2.15 pm. House No. 6 McGregor Street, 1 Cargo Boat No. 417, Victoria Harbour, 1 1,200 Believed to have been caused by crackers thrown through an open window on to some straw. 13 31st 1.00 am. S.S. "Hilary" Victoria Harbour, 1 3,348 Unknown. 14 Feb. 4th 1.00 p.m. House No. 127 Connaught Road West, 300 15 8th 5.00 a.m. 3 2 47,000 Fat from a boiler dropped into the fire. 16 11th 7.10 p.m. 20,000 17 24th- J 20
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