FIRES DURING THE YEAR 1901,——Continued.
No. OF
677
BUILDINGS
No.
DATE.
TIME.
SITUATION OF FIRE.
DESTROYED.
ESTIMATED
DAMAGE.
CAUSE.
REMARKS.
Wholly. Partly.
Brought forward,..
26
27
4 285 28
24 April
15
3.00 p.m.
Matshed on the Road between Lok Lo Ha and Ma
1
$274,370
250
Ngui Shini.
25 May
1
11.53 p..
House No. 19, East Street..
15
4.00 a.m.
Matshed near Tin Hau Temple, Tai Hang Village,.......
4 mnt-
400
75
Unknown.
sheds.
31
21
9.30 p.in.
No. 9, Beaconsfield Arcade,
29,000
Do.
28 June 3
9.50 p.m.
No. 292, Queen's Road Central,,
1
21,000
Do.
50
Do.
29
+9
30
13
20
12.40 p.m.
No. 31, Peel Street,
2.40,a.m.
No. 7, Queen Victoria Street.......
1
15,000
Do.
"7
31
25
9.00 p.m.
Shaft Funnel of S.S. "Arethusa" in Hung Hom Doek,
Do.
32
36
A 2000 as e as en
33 July
34 Aug.
35 Sept.
28
37
17
38
39
22
27
40
* 0 0 FONG
28 10.00 a.m.
In a House at To Shek Village,.
45
5
8.30 p.m.
1.50 a.m.
A Matshed at Valley Road, Wong Nei Chung, House No. 136, Queen's Road Central,.
1 mat-
50
shed.
9.55' a.m.
A Government Matshed, Praya East, used as Public Bath-house.
mat-
35,844
75
shed.
10 10.40 p.m.
House No. 4, Upper Lascar Row,
1
500
7.00 p.m.
A small Matshed in Barker Road,
mat-
10
shed.
19
6.20 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
A Matshed in Peak Road near Tram Terminus, House No. 369, Queen's Road Central,
2 mut-
sheds.
Unknown.
150
Do.
Do.
25
""
11.00 p.m.
An old and disused house at Kun Chung, Tsim Sha Tsui,
1
50
Supposed to have been caused by a
korosine lamp.
41
Oct.
1.40 p.m.
A small Matshed on the Reclamation Ground near Canton Wharf,
15
Unknown.
42
7.50 p.m.
House No. 116, Queen's Road Central,
2,700
Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
43
"}
7.15 p.m.
House No. 16, Praya, Shau Ki Wan West,
3,000
Do.
44
20
2.20 a.m.
House No. 249, Queen's Road Central,
9,500
Unknown.....
+3
45
26
7.35 p.m.
46
28
6.00 a.m.
A Grass-stack at Hung Hom West,
47
Nov.
7.15 a.m.
48
**
17
5.30 a.m.
No. 540, Des Voeux Road West,.
"
49 Dec.
1
5.35 p.m.
House No. 25, Caine Road,...
In an unnumbered Hut at Cheung Chow,.
House No. 189, Queen's Road West,
200
30
10huts.
382
Do.
Caused by throwing a lighted matele on floor.
Over-heating of tobacco drying racks...
Supposed to have been caused by sparks | from cook-house.
Caused by a lamp hanging near the shed. Unknown
Supposed to be from sparks from a boiler.
Accidentally upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
Unknown
No insurance effected.
Covered by insurance. No insurance effected.
Insured in the Union Insurance Com- pany for $25,000. Covered by insurance. No insurance effected.
Covered by insurance. Six persons
were burnt to death,
Two men were burnt to death and five men were severely burnt and died subsequently.
No insurance effected.
Do.
Covered by insurance. No insurance effected.
| Covered by insurance.
No insurance effected. Do.
Covered by insurance. No insurance effected.
Do.
Covered by insurance. No insurance effected. Covered by insurance.
Lath partition accidentally caught fire. | No insurance effected.
Unknown.
Do.
Do.
2
203,000
Do.
Covered by insurance for $155,000.
1
2
50
2.30 a.m.
House No. 22, Chinese Street,
22,000
100
Supposed to have been caused by over-
Covered by insurance.
heating of a medicine drying stove. Unknown
No insurance effected.
...
Curried forward,..
617,796
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