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 fuel. 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 13 2.15 pm. House No. 6 McGregor Street, 1 1,200 Believed to have been caused by crackers thrown through an open window on to some straw. Cargo Boat No. 417, Victoria Harbour, 14 31st 1.00 am. S.S. "Hilary" Victoria Harbour, 20,000 Fat from a boiler dropped into the fire. 15 Feb. 4th 1.00 p.m. House No. 127 Connaught Road West, 3 2 47,000 16 8th 5.00 a.m. 1 300 Unknown. 17 11th 7.10 p.m. 3,348 18 24th- J 20
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