Several of the inmates of the: Awellings were out ut the time the alarm was given (1.03 a.m), while others were asleep. Many of the latter, including Mis. R. M. Johns and her two children, who reside fat No, 121, at the end of the row, had narrow exeapes, Some Chinese servants were the first to raise an alarm, A few minutes after on d'elock several people in a house further down the street, who had not retired for the. night, were attracted to the spot by violent Mowing of " police whistle by one of the Chinese. Flames were already shooting from the root of 115, which stands in the middle of the' terrace, The few foreign! residents in the vicinity prompt gave assistance to the police arousing the occupants of the houses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.