JAR OF SPILLED WINE
A FIRE IN A STREET. SHANGHAI, July 17. Some coolies were propelling a handcart- containing large, jars of “Samshui,” a Chinese wine made from vice by a process of fermentation —along one of the principal streets of Shanghai, when one of tho jars fell from the cart to the ground and broke into pieces, the wine (lowing over the road. There was an immediate rush to the spot by thirsty coolies who started to scoop up the liquor in their hands. A bystander foolishly dropped a lighted match into the moss, which immediately burst into flames. The result was that, eight of the coolies were so badly 1 nirned about their hands and fate that thy had to he removed to the hospital. The lire brigade had to be called out to extinguish the liames.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 12
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