A fire breaks out in the
Song Chinese capital city of
Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58,097 houses over an area of more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded amount of other people who are trled while attempting to flee. The government provides temporary lodging for 5,345 people in nearby
Buddhist and
Taoist monasteries. The collective victims of the disaster are given 160,000 strings of cash, along with 400 tons of rice. Some of the government officials who lost their homes take up residence in rented
boathouses on the nearby
West Lake.
