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Show BUR1DJJ1II1 MNNE'sTcAE'LD,NGSANOBUS, !M c. TER 0F IRSH CITY IN SMOLDERING RUINS. cTh;aMirton FoJ;ows a" A" c Km - V in Which Four Vere Killed Civilians Taken From 1 neir Homes and Shot. Dll'';i-7As TriTof the warfar, Ule ce,,ll;l1 portion of tin I L , k "aS l,eun l,ur"-'1 to th, S o "Hi, other portions of the city als litering fr"i' the conflagration. Jhe municipal buildings, the Car e library ami the Corn exchange h,ch cover a Iurge area jave consumed by the flames. Severa blocks in the heart of the business dis tnct have been destroyed, constitute the costliest destruction of propern since the reprisals began in Ireland. The conflagration followed an am bush of the military at Pillons Cross Saturday night, in which four persons were killed and many wounded. Three civilians were taken fron their houses and shot dead after the ambush of the military. Then the fires started. There were bomb explosions and firing also was heard. The populace popu-lace is panic-stricken. Early estimates place the damage al between 2,0(J0,000 and 3,000,000 pounds sterling. The city of Cork is a port and a parliamentary borough, the capital ot Cork county, Ireland, on the Lee. eleven miles above its discharge into the sea, and. 165 miles southwest of Dublin by rail. ' It stands in the center of a picturesque pic-turesque valley, partly on an island, formerly a swamp, which the word "Cork," "Corroeh" or "Corcagh" implies, im-plies, and partly on the north and south, banks of the river. Several bridges span the river to the central island. is-land. The situation is picturesque from the uneven ground, irregular streets, intersecting river and overhanging over-hanging heights. Pounded in 622 by. St. Finn Barr, during the ninth century, Cork was frequently devastated by the Danes, who early in the eleventh century made it a trading station and built the city walls. Desmond Mnccarthy, king of Munster, surrendered it to Henry II in 1172. During the civil war it held out for the king and was taken by Cromwell in 1619. In 1600 it was again beslieged and taken by Marlborough. Marl-borough. Its population in 1901 was 76,122; parliamentary borough, 102,274; in 1911. 75,673 ; parliamentary borough, 102,274. Cork returns two members to parliament. |