The fire on the President Grant, according to later reports from Kobe, started in Nos. 6 and 8 holds, while she was voyaging between Yokohama and Kobe.
The fire raged fiercely until late lust night, when it was got under control by flooding the holds. The damage to the cargo and mails for Shanghai and Hongkong is considerable.
Later.
The President Grant sailed for Shanghai yesterday afternoon after the fire had been extinguished. Tt is stated that the damage done was not so great as was at first reported.—Reuter.
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