A fire resulting in loss of life broke out early on Tuesday morning at a house in Tsungming Road. The Brigade received a call at 6.23, and apparently the call was a late Hongkew Division. finding 63 a mass of flame on 1, while the upper part of two adjoining houses was strongly caught. With assistance from a Central section, the Brigade quickly checked the fire. Upon a ladder being fixed against the front of No. 63, a body was found lying on the remains of a floor joist upstairs. Tt was so badly burned that identification was impossible, but there was a report that a woman was missing. As to the cause of the fire, is is stated that a boy, lighting a fire at the foot of the stairs, used a little kerosene. The consequent burst of flame caused him to jump back, and in so doing he upset a lamp and set the whole house ablaze. The damage done to house property was not extensive.
No. 64, which was damaged upstairs, is occupied by a an insurance broker, who is not insured!
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