Show FEARFUL 10 SS ten to fifteen people drowned at augusta georgia as result of high waters fire adds to the destruction and it Is believed the loss less will reach a million dollars Do llara waters slowly receding augusta ga flood waters maters at an gusta which have caused such buch a heavy loss lose of life and property began receding thursday afternoon they reached the height of forty ably as high as the flood of 1888 iraln lias has ceased in the upper val ley and there Is no danger of further losses the tha loss approximates 1 and consists of damage to stocks of goods and private pr property 0 perty destruction of the wagon wa gon and railroad bridges across the savannah river and breaks lit in the canal banks there are dependent on the canal for power eight large and small cotton mills while the flood was at its height five fins broke out the buil d ei a material establishment north augustus burned A train of forty cars belonging to the southern railway rail way burned in ll hamburg amburg just across the river nixon a lime coment cement and hardware house and a huge quantity of lumber belonging to the georgia railway at the georgia rail way yards burned the augusta railway and company cannot run their cars for three days no power plant plan t Is in operation the telephone lines are not doing bustness business the railroads are accepting no passengers the water gervice Is crippled but intact the gas company Is impaired but not shut down there have been ten to fifteen drowning mostly negro laborers |