Seven Killed in Burkill Road Outbreak; Biggest pasmo conflagrations, which took a heavy toll in human lives and destroyed a vast amount of property, wrought havoc Shanghai yesterday. Seven people were killed and many others injured after a blaze in Burkill J Road early in the morning and other persons suffered various hurts following a factory fire in Warren Road shortly afterwards.
By for the most disastrous of all the conflagrations, however, courted in the early afternoon when a whole village situated between Great Western Road and Avenue Haig, containing factories, wooden and stone built, shops, dwelling houses, mostly built of wood, refugee huts, matsheds and other buildings, was devoured in Jess than an hour by flames which were fanned by a northerly wind.
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