Loss..of Two Lives in an Out-
\abieak-in the Yangtszepoo District "s'BWo serious outbreaks of fire occurred in Shanghai during the week-lend. The first: took place in Tong shan: Road in the small. hours of Satitday morning, resulting. in the ess of two, lives. Two children aleo sustained injuries about, the hands and face. The fire was first.observ-from the Hongkew watch tower and.2. division from Yangtszepoo wore quickly sent: to the scene, "The fire had got @ good hold and was. spreading. rapidly then the Division arrived, No, 1783, dwell-Sng, house in an' alleyway off Tongshan: Rond, was a veritable furnace, Mho, xoof sind first floor had already ellopsed, and the upper floor The, adjoining house. was a mass. -of, flame. Jets were turned. on from a hydrant some distance away "gpa directed. "upon the blaze from the alleyways at the front and year. The ceilings of No, 1785 on the east side were opened in the aigantime to check the spread fire on that soon had matt iiéeseded in 0 two houses, When the fre had been practically extinguished it was reported that woman was believed to have been fraught in one of the burning build-ngs. 'A search was made and under neath the debris on the ground floor was found the body of a woman about 60 years old; in. a further search the firemen found the Mrs. Thompson.
a few feet away. Tt is evident! youth of 17 years that these unfortunate indivi-@uals "were unable to escape from the upper floor of the promis 146 the only staireuse had fire. "Tt is probable that they fell through to the ground when the flooring gave A four-year-old-boy and young irl of about 10 years old received burns about the hands and face, he faure of the outbreak of Fire in a Garage Another fire, "which fortunately was confined to a very sin: but which, neverthe vweidedly exciting and' dangerous Whilst it lasted and which easily night have assumed serious pro-Portions, broke out about 9 p.m. borg & Co's motor service station when Mrs. at the corner of Avenue Road and Medhurst Road. The alarm was ent in almost simultaneously from.
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