A DEVASTATING CONFLAGRATION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1910, Page 3

A DEVASTATING CONFLAGRATION

| COTTON FIELDS DESTIIOIuD. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS LOST. GRAPHIC DETAILS. [IIY KLKC'TIUC TEIjKOHAI'II—COI'YUIOIIT.] [rUll I'HKSS ASSOCUriON-J (Received This Dny, !).oo a.m.) LONDON, April 26. Neuter reports that the conflagration at Atlanta was terrible. The destruction of the cotton-belt was the most disastrous since the Civil War. Cotton seed oil mills have been requested not to crush until the farmers have been supplied with sufficient seed for re-planting. It is doubtful whether sufficient seed will be procured to sow half the a rem, devastated. 'Phe orchards and gardens in the Mississippi Valley resembled a bivouacked army, owing to wood, coal, and straw fires. Throughout the night blankets and quilts were used in thousands of cases to protect. blossoming trees. The snow saved the lowa strawberry beds. Tho cranberry crops in the marshes are being saved by artificial flooding. [Atlanta is the centre of «• great cotton-growing district in Georgia, United States. The city has a population of 89,000.]