Description.
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BUILDINGS MISCELLANEOUS.
Chapel, green house & sexton's quarters at Colonial Cemetery.
Matshed fernery at Colonial Ce-
metery.
Matshed for sexton at Kai Lung
Wan Cemetery.
Matshed for sexton and Watch- man at Cheung Sha Wan Plagne Cemetery.
Custodian's matshed at Wonguci-
chong Recreation Ground.
Description.
Harbour Muster's Bamboo Pier. Queen's Starne Wharf,
Temporary Murray Pier. Blake Pier.
Kowloon City Pier.
Cheung Sha Wan Plague Come-
tory Pier.
Bamboo Pier at Green Island
Gunpowder Depôt.
Tsim Sha Tsui Police Pier.
Pitched slope at end of Arsenal
Street.
Pitched slopes in Cadogan Street and adjoining Marine Lot 293. West abutment of the Bridge at
Bowrington Canal,
Extent of Damage.
Ties damaged in the roofs of the Chapel and sexton's quarters; glass broken and casement windows blown down in the green house.
Blown down.
Do.
Do.
Damaged.
PIERS AND SEA-WALLS.
Extent of Damage.
Entirely blown away,
Mat covering blown down.
Shore end blown away.
Matshed shelter blown down. Damage to railing and
standards, etc.
Damaged.
Entirely washed away.
Blown away.
Slightly damaged; a flight of steps was washed away
and other minor items. Damaged.
Slightly damaged.
Damaged and stones dislodged.
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PARTICULARS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY DAMAGED BY RAINSTORMS OF 18-25TH JULY OR BY TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY, 1908.
Damage due to Rainstorms of 18-25th July when 16.20 inches of rain fell.
Location or description of property.
No. 26 Leighton Hill Road.
→ Beaconsfield "-temporarily oc- cupied by Registrar General's Office and Sanitary Dept.
Nos. 72-74 Bonham Strand West
-Kitchens collapsed,
Rural Building Lot 6-Gough
Jill Road.
No. 87 Stone Nullah Lane.
*
Abertholwyn ", Peak Road and
May Road,
Particulars with reference to Collapse.
The Verandah in front of No. 26 collapsed about 4 a.m., July 26th, no one injured. No apparent cause for collapse.
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The retaining wall to the East of Beaconsfield
collapsed shortly after midnight on the 25th of July, No one was injured. The collapse was apparently owing to the soil having got thoroughly saturated owing either to drain leakages, or defects in paving. The wall itself appeared to be very badly constructed at this point.
The Kitchen roof North, and West wall of No. 72 collapsed prior to Typhoon, on the 27th July. No one injured. Cause of collapse defective walling, building was an old one.
A portion of the retaining wall of the Tennis Ground on Rural Building Lot 6 abutting on Gough Hill Road collapsed on July 24th. The collapse was caused by the heavy rain getting behind the wall. A portion of the end wall and roof collapsed here on the 24th July. No one injured. The wall was defective and gave way, causing the roof to collapse. Large portions of the retaining walls in front and in the rear of this house fell. Some of these blocked May Road for a length of about 50 feet and demolished about 40 feet of the Government boundary wall be- tween May Road and "Clovelly". No one was injured. Large masses of earth fell with the retain- ing walls.
Description.
MISCELLANEOUS RAINSTORM DAMAGES.
Notice Boards on Wongneichong
Recreation Ground,
Headstones at Colonial Cemetery.
Nullahs below Barker Road. Bank at Colonial Cemetery, Bank at rear of Braeside".
Bank at Forbes Street.
Gas Lighting.
Nullah at Aberdeen adjoining the
Paper Mills.
Extent of Damage.
All blown down and damaged.
64 headstones including those belonging to the Naval and Military were blown down and otherwise damaged.
Broken. Collapsed.
Do. Do.
Lamp glasses, mantles, shades, posts, &c., broken, caused
by rain and wind.
Wall partially collapsed.
DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY.
Location or description of property.
Nos. 40-42 Market Street, Hung-
hom.
Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Kowloon
City Road.
Nos. 36, 38 and 40 Portland
Street, Mong Kok.
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Fook Shing Lane, Yaumati.
Particulars with reference to Collapse.
The rear walls on the first floors collapsed. No one injured. These are old buildings and the walls were in a defective condition.
The roofs, party walls and West flank wall collapsed. These were old stone buildings with very defective
walls.
The flank, party walls and roofs of these houses col- lapsed on the 28th. A considerable loss of life occurred. Cause of collapse, defective walling- the buildings had been tied together previously with iron tie rods.
The whole of the 8 houses were practically demolished with the exception of the kitchens. A considerable loss of life occurred. These houses were old ones and, as they occupy a sheltered position, the collapse must be ascribed to the defective condition of the buildings.
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