– K (1) 8 –
Killed.
Injured.
so great that two bodies were blown into the roadway 200 ft. away, whilst a third body was found on the 70 feet high roof of the Hong Kong Club, some 300 feet away. It was found later that the death roll was thirty-four, many of the bodies being hardly recognizable. At a Court of Enquiry on the disaster it was revealed that the boiler of the launch, which was recovered from the bottom of the harbour, was defective and had exploded. Most of the victims of the disaster were emigrants from
from the Japanese Liner Rio-de-Janiero Maru lying in the harbour
13. Collapses and Landslides.
(1) During the course of piling a building site at Canton Road, Yaumati, on 23/5/1937 a sudden squall caused the breakage of the guy lines of a 70 feet high steel pile driver which, in its crash to the ground, demolished some nearby wooden shacks. Seven persons, including the foreman in charge of the pile driver, were killed and ten persons injured. The Brigade turned out with Appliances and Ambulances and extricated the dead and injured
(2) Following the collapse of two Chinese houses at Un Long Market, New Territory, on 8/8/1937, two Chinese males and two Chinese females were extricated alive.
(3) Following a landslide at Foo Loong Quarry, Tai Kok Tsui, on 22/8/1937 one Chinese male, aged 29 years was extricated dead.
34 7 1 ! Total Casualties 20 10 4 92 39