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Show FLCODS CAUSE FEARFUL LOSS Ten to Fifteen People Drowned at Augusta, Georgia, as Result of High Waters. Fire Adds to the Destruction, and It Is Delleved the Lost Will Reach a Million Dollar. Waters Slowly Receding. Augusta, Go. Flood watorB nt Augusta, Au-gusta, which havo caused such a licavy loss of llfo and property, began receding Thursdny ntternoon. They reached tho height of forty feot, probably prob-ably as high as tho flood of 1888. Ilaln has ceased In tho upper valley, val-ley, and thoro Is no danger of further losses. Tho loss approximates ?1,-000,000, ?1,-000,000, and consists ot damago to stocks of goods and prlvnto proporty, destruction ot tho wagon aud railroad bridges across tho Savnnnnh river and breaks In tho cnnnl banks. Thcro nro dependent on tho cnnnl for power, eight largo and small cotton milts. While tho flood was at Its height flvo Arcs broko out. Tho McDanlcl builders' matorlal establishment. North Augustus, burned, A train ot forty cars belonging to tho Southern railway, burned In Hamburg, Just across tho river. Nixon's lime, cement ce-ment and hardware house and a hugo qunntlty of lumber belonging to tho Georgia railway at tho Georgia railway rail-way yards, were burned. Tho Augusta Hallway nnd Electric company cannot run their cars for three days. No powor plant Is In operation; tho telephone Hues nro not doing business; busi-ness; tho railroads aro accepting no passengers. Tho water Borvlco Is crippled, but Intact. Tho gas company Is Impaired, but not shut down. Thcro havo been ten to fifteen drowning, mostly negro laborers. |