Table I.
Fires during the year 1918.
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. No. of Buildings Destroyed. Damage. Cause. Remarks. Wholly. Partly. $ 1 10. 1. 18. 12.30 p.m. Main Street, Cheung Chau... 80,000 2 11.-1. 18. 3.05 a.m. No. 12, Aberdeen 3 6,000 Caused by setting light to some joss candles while being made. Unknown. 19 mat-sheds 3 3. 2. 18. 4.30 p.m. The Chiu Kee Ship Yard at Cheung Sha Wan 26,350 Do. several sampans. 4 13. 2. 18.21. 2. 18. 10.00 p.m.
2.10 a.m. No. 3, Buid Street
San Chicong Chau Bamboo Ware Yard, Portland Street, Yaumati 1 1 50,000
2,180 Do.
Do. 6 16. 2. 18. 5.00 p.m. Unnumbered matshed, Keung Shan, Tai O....... 1 800 Do. 7 22. 2. 18. 1.00 p.m. Nos. 11 and 12, Wu Shek Kok, Shan Tau Kok 1 1 210 Grass in the house catching fire through a spark flying from the 8 26. 2. 18. 2.55 p.m. The Matshed Race Stands at the Race Course at Wong Nei Chung 20 30,000 stove. The matsheds coming in contact with charcoal fires under the 1st. floor. (Caused by cargo coolies smoking in Deaths 570, removed to Hospital 52 and 135 reported missing. 9 2. 3. 18. 8.20 a.m. S.S. Komahata Maru the holds. Unknown. 10 15. 3. 18. 7.00 p.m. A house, Cheung Shing Street La Long, Au Tau 1 1 K 22