Lumber Yard Involved in Chapei Conflagration A disastrous fire, in which several men of the Chapei Fire Brigade were Injured, occurred on Saturday, when more than 200 straw dwellings were destroyed by flames which started, apparently, from the overturning of kerosene lamp in one of the huts and gained tremendous headway by igniting an adjoining lumber yard, The fire started in a straw hut in Whashing Road, near Chang An Road, Chapel. About half the. adjoining lumber yard was destroyed by the flames, which raced through the neighbourhood with intense fury. entire settlement of 200 straw huts, 2 inhabited 1 treated for minor injuries sustained in combatting the flames,
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