FIRE AND FLOOD. .

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 289, 31 August 1908, Page 7

FIRE AND FLOOD. .

MANY LIVES LOST. ! THE INUNDATION OF AUGUSTA. , . CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS (CI IRLEORAPp—PItESS ASSOCIATION—COriRIOIIT.) ; (Reo.. August 30, 4.20 p.m.) • . New. York,. August 29.. In connection with the floods at Augusta, the bursting of a canal inundated tlie 20 bodies have so far been recovered. ' , The captain of a steamer states that "he saw twenty-five bodies floating in the.river, mostly negroes. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling. It is reported that 20,000 people are homeless in Augusta, and that many are- sleeping in trees. The floods are now'subsiding. . cloud-blirst In new Mexico. •,' ] 1 FIFTEEN DEATHS,.'. . (Reo. August 30, 4.20 p.m.) New York, August 29. A cloud-burst at Folsoin, New Mexico, resulted in fifteen people being drowned / COLLIERY DANGERS. • MAYPOLE MINE. (Boo.' August 30, 4.20 p.m.) V - .. "London, August 29. The fire. in the Maypole No. 1 Colliery, near Wigan,' where 76 persons were killed) is still btxrning. FIRE QtITBREAK IN A MAIN. SHAFT, London, August 28. A fire in the'main shaft at the Shawfield mine, L&mtrkshire, demolished the pithead framework and buildings. Eighty miners escaped through other shafts. ' ' VARNISH. ICNITES. - THREE PERSONS INJURED. / • - . Adelaide, August 29. Weisse alid Varcoe's wickerware factory was destroyed by fire. . A boy was engaged burning off some rough cane ends, when a pbt 6f -varnish became ignited, the boy' b clothes . were fired, and" he was • badly burned. \". The flames spread with alarming rapidity, and 'einployees working in the tipper floors had great difficulty in escaping. Two jumped from the windows and were seriously injured.

RESULT OF A JOKE. ( X SMALL BOY BADLY BURNED. : > ■ i ' • < ; Sydney, August 29. While fleet decorations wore being removed in the city,. a little boy named Nava decked himself out with paper flags and coloured papers, which had been < used in decorating. A tnan who was • passing, supposedly for a joke,' applied a match to the inflammable material, and . tho child was shockingly burned. ■ <. . • 'He was taken- to•:the hospital-;in; a dying condition. .. ■ '' ■vi ■ , Jnjjoa a , u , u