One of the greatest conflagration over witnessed in Hankow occurred on the evening of the 16th instant in the Chinese huts and houses behind the British Concession. The fire started shortly after 5.30, opposite Carlowitz & Co.'s property on the Tachimen Road, about 200 yards from the street, says the "'Hankow Daily News. The strong north wind fanned the flames and the fire spread with terrible rapidity towards the Concession boundary, leaving intact the brick built house of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.'s compradore and the military quarters at the entrance of the Tachimén road, An enormous area was soon s blaze ing mass of flames and when the boundary of the Concession was reached the flames leaped over the narrowest part of the street, setting on fire the semi-foreign houses in the triangular block between the Y. M. C. A. and the Caledonian Press. To the combined efforts of the British and Russian Fire Brigades it was due that only few of these houses were destroyed. At 9 p.m. the fire had been extinguished or had burned out itself. The whole area from the Tachimén to near to the Sing Song Road has been destroyed.
It was stated that several Chinese were burned to death. Two Chinese were arrested while pouring kerosene over miscellaneous stuff that had been salved from the fire.
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