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DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-2811 JULY,—Continued.
Location or description of property.
"Kingsclere", South East portion.
No. 117 Temple Street South,
Yaumati.
No. 55 Temple Street, Yaumati.
No. 62 Temple Street North,
Yaumati.
No. 136 Praya East.
Nos. 23, 24 und 25 Praya, Ken-
nedy Town.
No. 94 Des Voeux Road Central.
Nos. 163 and 164 Connaught
Road West,
No. 52 Connaught Road West.
No. 73 Queen's Road Central.
No. 29 Morrison Hill Road.
No. 24 Temple Street North,
Yaumati.
Nos. 15, 16 and 17 Connaught
Hoad Central.
King's Buildings.
Nos. 52, 54, 56 and 58 Station
Street North, Yaumati.
No. 67 Kennedy Street, Yaumati.
Particulars with reference to Collapse.
A heavy chimney stack was blown down. It fell on the roof which gave way and in turn wrecked a portion of the upper floor. One man (European) was injured.
The flank wall and the roof of this house collapsed. No one was injured. No special reason for collapse. This house completely collapsed. No one was injured.
Cause not defined so far,
This house completely collapsed. It was used as a Godown and was consequently unoccupied by human beings.
The roof and portion of the West wall collapsed. No one injured. Collapse caused through defective wall. These were Godowns and have collapsed as far as 1st floor level, a great deal of No. 23 however is razed to the ground. "No one injured. The cause of the col- lapse has not been defined so far.
The roof and 3 floors of Verandah (over Crown land) have collapsed. No one injured. It was probably due to defective timbers. Only portions of these Godowns have collapsed, the ground floor still standing. No one injured. No cause for collapse has been traced so far, One bay of Verandah (there are three bays to this house) collapsed on all floors; no one injured; no apparent cause for collapse has been discovered. The roof of Verandah collapsed. No one was injured.
The cause of collapse was defective roof timbers. The North wall of this house partially collapsed, no
one injured. Cause of collapse not yet apparent. This house was rendere dangerous by the Typhoon. The Police were asked to see that occupants were moved out and notices have been served for shoring. A large pediment on Verandah front collapsed causing
damage to roof and walls. No one injured.
A chimney on the Eastern frout of building fell and carried with it a considerable portion of the roof and
3 upper floors, which were occupied as offices by some of the leading mercantile firms. No one injured. The cause of collapse has not been traced.
The rear wall collapsed. No one injured. Cause of
collapse defective walling,
The flank wall, portions of other walls and the roof collapsed. No one killed. Cause of collapse has not been traced.
Workshops, Quarry Bay Shipyard. Several of the workshops (steel frame construction) in course of erection here have been entirely demolished, the force of the gale causing the bolts to be drawn out of the concrete in some cases and the head stripped off in others. No one was injured.
Soy Factory on Shaukiwan In-
land Lot 104.
Nos. 1 and 2 Mission Street,
Shaukiwan.
No. 20 Shaukiwan West.
A portion of this building has collapsed, the collapsed portion was built of old blue brick and was in a defective condition. No one was injured.
One house is completely demolished, the other partially so. Four persons were killed and one injured. These buildings were old and constructed of rubble masonry, set dry.
The roof and front wall of this building collapsed. No one was injured. This is a very old stone house built of rough stonework set dry.
No. 36 Shaukiwan West.
Factory on Shaukiwan Inland
Lot 22.
Nos. 21-29 Shaukiwan West.
No. 84 Shaukiwan West.
No. 28 Praya, Shaukiwan.
No. 17 Sai Wan Ho.
House at Chung Lung.
Two houses on Marine Lot 10,
Shaukiwan.
No. 27 Ho Min Tin-Dyeing
Shed.
Brickworks, Aberdeen-Coolie
Quarters.
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The front wall on the 1st floor collapsed. No one was injured. This is an old building built of rough stonework set dry.
A portion of this factory collapsed. No one was injured. This is an old building built of rough stonework set dry.
The rear walls on the two upper floors collapsed, demolishing 4 very old two-storied stone-built houses at the rear. The cause of collapse has not yet been investigated. 17 persons occupying the latter houses were killed and 4 injured.
The roof and front and end walls collapsed. This was an old stone-built house; the greater portion of stonework being laid partially dry. It was not sufficiently strong to withstand a Typhoon. No one was injured.
The roof only collapsed here. No special reason can be
assigned for collapse.
This house was built of stones laid dry, the joints just pointed on the face. Such work has not strength to stand the fury of a Typhoon. A woman and boy were killed here.
Do., Do., Do., but there was no pointing
even to this house. One woman was killed. The flank walls on top floor and the roofs collapsed. The open staircases and the windows which were stated to have been open at the time gave the wind an opportunity to get at the temporary flank walls of these houses. These flank walls which will be party walls at a later date were also slightly weakened by the chase left for taking the concrete floor which is to be formed later.
This shed was supported on 22" brick piers and was insufficiently braced to withstand the Typhoon--3 persons were killed.
These quarters are entirely demolished, the Southern house collapsing first. The brickwork is exceptionally good and the collapse can therefore only be attributed to the extreme force of the wind. From the fact that nearly all the walls collapsed outwards, it appears certain that the wind gained access to the interior of the building, probably through some insufficiently secured window or door.
PRIVATE PIERS.
There does not seem to have been much damage caused to permanent private piers beyond destruction of temporary shelters on them; of course bamboo structures have suffered.
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works,
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