The Shanghai Fire Brigade attended no fewer than eight calls to fires on Monday, including that on the premises of Grace China Ca., reported elsewhere. At one of the fires, at No. Vi63 North Kiargse Road, a woman and two boys met their deaths, On arrival in response to an alarm the Hongkew Division found the premises, a Chinese dwelling, well alight. The flames had already got a stron hold on the first floors and roofs of the two adjoining houses. With the assistance of a section from Central the fire was quickly held. Soon after the arrival of the Bri. gade it was stated that some of the inmates of No. 164 were missing. A ladder was quickly raised at the back, and a man brought down. By this time the roof and ceiling of the building were a mass of flames, and the smoke was so thick that it was inipossible to penetrate into the premises. Rum. ours were heard that other persons Were still missing, and as soon as possible a search was made, and the bodies of a woman and two boys, aged 9 and @ respectively, were found in the front room of No. 164, the door of which had to be burst open. The only means of egress from this floor was through the adjoining premises, where the fire originated, and had burnt the only staircase, The outbreak is said to have been caused by a girl upsetting a kero. sene lamp on a bed, and igniting the bedding in the back room on the first floor of No. V163.
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