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.Table I.
Fires during the year 1918.
No. of Buildings
Destroyed.
No.
Date.
Time.
Situation of Fire.
Damage.
Cause.
Remarks.
Wholly.
Partly,
$
1
10. 1. 18.
12.30 p.m.
Main Street, Cheung Chau...
40
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 and
3
3. 2. 18.
4.30 p.m.
The Chiu Kee Ship Yard at Cheung Sha Wan
26,350
Do.
several
sampans.
4
21. 2. 18.
13. 2. 18. 10.00 p.m.
2.10 am.
No. 3, Buid Street
[
50,000
Do.
་
San Chicong Chau Bamboo Ware Yard, Port. [
land Street, Yaumati
1
1
2,180
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
stovc.
The matsheds coming in contact
with charcoal fires under the 1st. floor.
(Caused by cargo coolies smoking in
Deaths 570, re- moved to Hospit-
al 52 and 135 re- ported missing.
9
2. 3. 18.
10
15. 3. 18.
8,20 a.m.
7.00
p.m.
S.S. Komahata Maru
A house, Cheung Shing Street La Long, Au Tau
25
the holds.
Unknown.
1
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