Show r- r S FLOG DS CAUSE CA USE I S. S Ten to Fifteen Peo People I Drowned o ed at Georgia as Result of High Waters Fire Adds dds to the D Destruction tlona a f tU the Loss Will Reach la is Believed a Million Dollars Water Waters Slowly Receding at Angusta An- An Augusts Augusta Flood waters caused such a gusta gusts which havo have heavy loss of ute lUo and property began receding Thursday afternoon They iney reached the tho height of ot forty feet fee probably probably the flood of 1888 ably as high as val vat valley Rain has ceased In tho the upper of further I ley Icy and there Is no danger losses The Tho loss approximates 1 and consists of or damaso dama e to stocks of goods and private private property destruction of ot the wagon and railroad bridges across the Savannah river and breaks In the canal banks There are dependent on the tho canal for power eight large and small cotton mills While the flood was at its height five fires broke out The McDaniel I builders' builders material establishment North Augustus burned A train of forty cars belonging to the Southern railway burned in Hamburg Just across the tho river Nixons Nixon's lime Ume cement cement ce ce- ment and hardware house and a huge quantity of lumber belonging to the tho Georgia railway at the Georgia railway railway railway rail rail- way yards were burned Tho The Augusta Railway and Electric company cannot run their cars for Cor three days No power plant Is In operation the telephone lines Unes are not doing business business busi busl ness the railroads are accepting no passengers The water service Is crippled but intact The gas company Is impaired but not shut down There Thero have haye been ten to to- fifteen drowning mostly negro laborers |