Officer. Lient: Lugg. R. A. could not be found and there is every certainty of his being dead; Lient = "Col: Tomkins has since died, the fire was cut off from the district of Sai-ping-show but proceeded, without a possibility of prevention until it reached the end of the row of houses on the sea side of Queen's Road Weet-
About half past five o'clock this morning the fire had burnt out. I find that four hunched and fifty eight houses have been consumed, and Scompute the loss of property them to exceed thinly thousand frounds Sterling. Groing to the difficulty of obtaining water, the engines only brought into play at the conclusion of the fire-
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It has been stated that upwards of troenty Chinese chiefly children
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have perished, but altho'a careful enquiry has been made, I cannot discover that any are missing and to the present time no bodies have been found -
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I think it necessary to remark
thatmost of the houses consumech had been built more than seven
years,
that the upper floors were constructed almost entirely of wood, that the property in many of them was of a highly combustible nature,
spirits (samchoo) saltpetre, oil, cotton and silk goods, de, that there have been several months of dry weather, and to these circumstances combined. Pattribute the unprecedented rapidity with which the fire progressed and the consequent difficulty with
which it was arrested. -
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