CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 172

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moning to the above effect

immediately directed

we

the Reorganization Office to

deputy to the thot

send a

spot

with all Opsed to recover & bury the corpses of the

drowned,

burned & instructions were

the

off

Ai

given to Yu-lany to propare

coffins for their reception. The rapidity of the conflagration

the "Wahyoung" defied the possibility of rescue,

not only herself totally destroyed

ة له

but more

were

Anme

was

where

sea & the sight

was

heartrending beyond expression With regard

Kerosene ait, it comes

to

for

the most part from America,

is largely

&

to its

is great

consumed owing

cheapness. Its strenght the least mishap.

f.

will lead to a

conflagration,

The climate of the Canton

province is hot & numerous

fires have

occurred. During

the

Winter of

last

year

not

the steamer

a

lives

f

ten they

with Kerosene

bones and

1878 over

thousand

houses

a

whole

than 700

Ast at the

Broken

Jame

floating corpses filled,

single day passed without

one of in

outside

a

sine

were

cases out

connected

In November

were trimmed down the South Gate

and

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