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Show MOVING BOG DEVASTATE MUCH VALU ABE PROPEMY IN ROSCOMMON, IRELAND twelve acres, which had been Armed in the last few day by pent-up trbuntaln streams. Unless some means la, speedily speed-ily adopted to drain oft this atr will undermine the entire bogr t . a disaster may to anticipated. I The lake is steadily extendi . ward toward number ct boa. t i the rising ground. The land atcl. 1 to the holding- ha already beea cov- , ered by the creeping bog-. -! LONDON, Dec 31. Graphic detail ' are being- received of the devastation caused by a moving- bog- in the county of Roscommon, Ireland. The bog-, which 1 known a that .of Cloonshiever, Is three miles from Cas-tlerea. Cas-tlerea. When it began to .slide' it moved three-quarters of a mile in a ' . few days, covering- everything- In Its way with peat and water to the depth of eight or ten feet. y According to reports from the scene the peasants are surrounded on all sides with miles of bog- and water. The inhabitants in-habitants of Cloonshiever. a village in the' valley of about 760 one-story cottages, cot-tages, barely .escaped with their lives, the bog having moved upon them unT aware. Many of the peasants' houses have ' wholly disappeared, while all that Is to be seen of the others Is the chimney top. - Here and there a lifeless tree marks the spot where well-tilled farms have disappeared probably forever. At one point there is a lake of ten or |