The contents of the godown onsiated of cotton, cotton wool, tobacco leaf, nearly two million cigarettes, skins and hides, silk, ailie wadding, Foochow lacquerware and other goods of Ningpo Foochow origin, and the valu as tated, was estimated at between Tis, $00,000 and Tls. 1,000,000, It] is understood that all this had been covered by insurance and that the Duilding itsd? was also insured.
The fire broke out just after the: steamers Yungshin and Ningshao had Jeff the wharf and their places: at the pontoon had been taken up. by the steamers Taichow and faihua, The latter, therefore, wore compelled almost' immediately afterwards to move into mide stream, out of danger.
Starling in the No. 1 godown, th flames spread very quickly tothe upper floors and, in a few minutes the whole of the three floors were blazing furnace. The flames worked their way through a divid~ ing wall and would surely have caught on to the No, 2 godown had He not been for a fire wall which Jay between the two godowns.
Te was impossible to get anywhere near the place before six o'clock so dense wore the smoke and sparks. The strongly barricaded iron doors and grilles and the fron shuttered windows prevented access but even were these not there, it would have Doon useless to try to get near.
Thousands of feet of hose were used, and there were in action several pumps, a couple of which were noticed drawing water from the Whangpoo River.
Cinders were blown hundreds of yards and it is most suspi That these did not involve the neighbouring buildings, which were fortunate in having tile roots.
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