Sliding of a Bog in Ireland.
LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. (Per Mail Steamer.) A despatch from Dublin of December 28th says a family of eight persons named Donelly, and a number of cattle have been engulfed by the subsiding or sliding of a bog 100 acres in extent neat Caetle Island, County Kerry. Other persons were drowned. There Were terrible storma, and through the night and about three o'clock in the morning the people of the district were alarmed by on nnusual rumbling, which, they feared, was canted by an earthquake. The bog which was believed to be thirty feet deep, and which had long supplied the whole neighbourhood with peat, moved for several miles along the water course. Filling a quarry 20 feet deep on its way, flooding the rivers of the' country with pest water and doing a great deal of damage. It destroyed homes and farms in its course, and sweeping tbrongh a valley emptied peat, carcases of cows and donkeys, and debris of houses into the Lake of Eillarney, the beauty of which the slide threatened to destroy.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2
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185Sliding of a Bog in Ireland. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2
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