A BOG SLIDE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9394, 15 March 1909, Page 6

A BOG SLIDE.

♦ Loudon, January 21. r Accompanied by a noise resembling thunder, the sliding bog at Kilmore, County Galway, is hioving rapidly in the direction of the houses not yet deserted. The movement started on Sunday, impelled by heavy floods, at the end the bog, which is thousands of acres in size, and has engulfed farms and houses. Efforts to check the movement are without appreciable effect. Gangs of men are opening up drains to clear off the water, but they are greatly retarded by the liquid consistency of the morass. The families driven from their homes on Monday and Tuesday were for the most part by kindly neighbours. All night long the people remained up, most of them out of doors, in the pitiless weather. A crowd of about fifty, or one hnudred”persons, aided by the local police, dared the dangerous causeway of planks and straw over 12ft of seething, boiling mud, and have toiled away endeavouring to recover the body of Mrs MoDonell, who was overwhelmed on Sunday night. The demeanour of the unfortunate people is one of ntter helplessness. Tears stream from'their eyes as they gaze, on the ruins of their once happy, if humble, homes. In many cases only the chimneys or a portion of the outer walls remain.