Fire broke out shortly after 9.30] lon Wednesday evening at the Ming; Sung Cotton Weaving Mill, situated at some distance along, Warren Road. On the arrival of the Brigade the upper portion of a two-storeyed godown, a building with wooden floors, in close proximity to a similar structure, was found to bbe in flames, the fire having already reached some parts of the godown floor.
There being no hydrants so far Joutside the Settlement boundary, water had to be pumped from a large water tank in the centre of the compound. Three pumps connected to a number of jets were [set to work on the threatened building. One of the first jets was placed on the roof of the godown which was in immediate danger on the west and two on the mill chemical store on the east, Tt was soon realized "that the Brigade had only just arrived in time to save the property. As is usually the case with a cotton godown the fire took some time to deal with, although all danger of its spreading was over by midnight. Every possible precaution had to bbe taken, an additional safeguard being to' send a monitor and feseape to the southeast corner to used as a monitor and water tower respectively. In spite of the fact that the mill pump was kept at work supplying the tank in three hours the water dropped so low that the pump had to be shifted to a near by creek. Had the mill pomp kept the hydrants properly supplied—as it was they were uscless—the work lof the firemen would have been much simplified.
The godown involved contained. 2,000 piculs of cotton, 14,000 Ib. of
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