Pathetic Incidents. oan. on Sunday a fire broke Shantung Road. The ly om the greene and did keeping the fire from ing. The cause of the fire is at present unknown, Two bodies were found mong the ruins on Sunday afternoon.
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G.-Helyer pluckily managed to save three persons from the fire. He also saved three people who had become stupefied through one house. On Sunday two bodies were recovered out of some seven missing at the fire. A boy, whom Sergt. Holyer rescued, died in the same afternoon, On Monday two more bodies were recovered. There were four bodies, three men, one of them clasping a boy of about five years closely to his breast. All the bodies were terribly scorched. The fire, arrange to say, arose out of another fire which was in progress in Hongkew. A boy, endeavouring to get a view of the fire in Hongkew, upset a kerosene oil lamp, and thus caused the second fire. The con tents and buildings of most of the houses were insured.
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