TAKSANG, Fire broke out in the engine room store room of the Indo-China 8.N. Co.'s steamer Taksang at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday last. It appears that as the steamer was due to leave here that night a Chinese fireman went below to light the fires and entered the storeroom. Mr. Birch, third engineer, followed a few minutes afterward, and while he was on the ladder, descending, an explosion was heard below. Almost immediately—_ of Taotai Mei Haing-tsien, head of the Tientsin branch of the M. 8. N.Co., has left that port wrong, but he was driven a for Amoy, vii Shanghai, to join had both his hands burnt severely Vice-Admiral Sha Chen-ping, Com-before he regained the upper deck. mander-in-Chief of the Peiyang and The store room is a small compart-Nanyang squadrons of the now. ment on s level with the engine room reduced Chinese Navy, in making pre-and a door, connecting the two, is the parations for the reception of the only aperture leading from the former. American Pacific Battleship Fleet, whi On the opposite side of the engines a1 is due to arrive at Amoy on Septem—|the pumps; an attempt was at once "ber 14. Besides Admiral Sha and. nised to use them, but the smoke and Testa Wei, tie, Comminsioner, of
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