The Weather.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7847, 26 May 1904, Page 7

The Weather.

Heavy Rainfall in Westtand.

Loss of life.

Serious* Damage to Property.

The Bruimer -Disaster

(Per Press Association.)

TV <*♦ May 2 U : nor chsastcr. .He states that "the | calamity ■« a most distress^ g or c rebuking m U le ,i OBB of m^?™' and the total destruction of a fourof Jones lermimis Hotel it appears that, at two o'clock tins morning Mr Walter CotSvo was awakened by a heavy crash at the back of the house. He at on?o hurned Ins wife out and they.3 their two youngest children in tl"cir arms Mr Cosgrove tried to Jc hto the ,| Jac k rooms., where iiv, of then- other chi:cW we^etnag' do so' I"?!* "? PiCCeS h° COuW" St $%ss:%&?* >«*&£ Before Mrs Cosgrove had< time to get clear another fall came down smashing the house to atoms, and burying the five children, and crashV? g }} VOUSk Jones' Hotel, bur-.-iim-Mr Henry Jones underneath * O n 2 Wfang. ; JHrs Cosgrove down killing the two youngest children, partially covering them, and knockuoand braising the mother very severely. J

' Help was soon v.at hand and extricated the mother from under the edge of the debris.. Another stcond and she would have lost her life Word went round about the calamity, and a couple of hundred hands are at work (9 a.m.) making strenuous eflorts to recover the six bodies, lhose killed are :—

Bessie Cosgrove, ageci 13 years. Maggie Cosgrovo, 12 years Mary Cosgrove, 10 years. . Thomas Cosgrove, 8 years., Jack Cosgrove, 5 years. Nellie Cosgrove, 4 j'ears. Norah Cosgrove, 18 months. Henry Jones, aged 60 years. All of Mr Cosgrove's children are killed. It is commuted that there was about two thousand yards of earth, trees, and rocks in the sjip. A largo number of minor damages has been done to property. .