Chinatown is burning

Aftermath of the fire.

At the public showers, observed by what might be a health department worker

Attempts to control the fire

Residents’ belongings, piled in the street, possibly removed from houses that would be scoured with carbolic acid

piles of trash heaped up in the street, some burning

Residents behind the cordon, here literalized as rope

Soldiers line a street in Honolulu’s Chinatown

Soldiers of the cordon disperse