A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
♦ ■ - 1000 LIVES LOST. SYDNEY, March 10. Tbe Port Darwin mail brings details of die terrible conflagration among the flower boats on the Pearl River, near Canton, -when- nearly all the boats were consumed, causing the loss of 1000 lives, £he majority of whom were drowned. . This disaster occurred on a Saturday night, when many parties were being given by the mandarins. The wildest panic prevailed, ■ and hundreds of people trere seen jumping into the water to save themselves from the fire. . Many were «aved, but over 200 cliarred corpses were discovered up to Sunday aiternoon. _. The boa.ts were heavily laden with Humanity, and it is said that many mandarins are among the burned-, while 10 bankers and a number of prominent business men were among the victims. The fire is supposed to have originated through the falling of a kerosene lamp.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2870, 17 March 1909, Page 26
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144A TERRIBLE DISASTER. Otago Witness, Issue 2870, 17 March 1909, Page 26
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