Show CAUSE FEA H FU I 1 LOSS ten to fifteen people drowned at augusta georgia as result of high waters fire adds to the destruction and 11 Is believed the loss will reach a million dollars waters slowly receding augusta oa ga alood marets at all gusta which have caused such 3 4 heavy loss of 0 life and property begar rc receding ceding thursday afternoon they reached the height of forty feet ably as high as the flood of 1888 rain has ceased in the upper tipper val ley and there la Is no danger of gurthet losses the loss lois s 1 and consists of damage t to stocks of goods and private property destruction of the wagon and bridges the savann savannah ah river and breaks in the canal banks there aro are dependent on the canal for power awer eight large irge and small cotton m mills Ms while the flood was at its height five fires broke out the mcdaniel builders material establishment north augustus burned A train of doity cais belonging to the southern railway burned in hamburg just across the rivet dixons nixons lime ce mont ment and hir hardware dware house and a huge quantity of gumbei belonging to the georgia railway tit at the georgia rail way yards were bained binned the augusta railway and electric hectric company cannot run their cars for three das dabs no power plant Is in operation the telephone lines are not doing business the railroads are accepting no passengers pae 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 |