Show FLOODS cause F LA ra loss ten to fifteen people drowned at augusta georgia as result of ghigli waters fire adds to the destruction and li if Is believed the loss will reach a wilton million dollars waters slowly 1 aly receding augusta ga flood waters nt augusta which have caused such il a heavy loss of life and property began receding thursday afternoon they reached the height of forty feet ably as high as aa the flood of 1888 rain has ceased in the upper valley and there Is no danger of gurthel losses the loss approximates ae 1 and consists of damage to stocks of goods and private property destruction of the wagon and railroad bridges across the Savan savannah nali riv river erand and breaks break sla la the canal banks there are dependent on the tha canal for power eight large and small cotton mills while th the e flood was at its height five fires broke out the At eDaniel builders material establishment north th augustus burned A train of forty cars belonging to the southern railway burned in hamburg just across the river nixons dixons lime cement and hardware house and a huge quantity of lumber belonging to the georgia railway at the georgia railway yards were burned the augusta railway and electric company cannot run their cars for three days no power plant Is in operation the telephone lines are not doing business the railroads are accepting no passengers the water service Is crippled but intact the gas company Is impaired but not shut down there have been ten to fifteen drowning mostly negro laborers |