MAID
IT. POURS.
No 15,937,
THORNE'S)
No. 4,
OLD VAT
SCOTOH
The Chha lail
WHISKY
as, supplied to the House
of Lords and House of Com
mons.
A. S. WATSON & Co., La
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS
ALEKINDIA Building, Hongkong,
TRAGEDY IN C&YLON.
Suspexion Bridge" Wire
Dremki.
The Wesak festivities wäre marred by A terrilowskleat that occurred on May 2 nour Pugslawella, Ceyl n. About » mile and 'n huit on the - Polgabawolle Ko galle rond, the big bridge over The Maha Oys which was destroyed by the foods last yeme is being rebuilt and in the meantime a te my wire bridge had been erected mgrows the tow at dicture, being suspenderi above the mawry of the new bridge at a height of 23 feet and shout 109 feet niove the bed of the river, mye the Time- al Coxiel
15 de Saturday morning the real was crowded with Wesak hali lay-makers whicine objective was a big temple on the ther side of the river.
pparently it had not
Built
any one that the bridge was cot
to derry a large crowd of people and,
s far as we have been able to fùum, mo attempt was made to
E andreds of dawliday-malate the tritic.
igent, women,
resis
ATI of their walked one
and children, nor ily chattering l faning between
dan, mining cry of
the rail *pring stracce quite
woercions the danger they were incurring. The tražio pan at it's prontest. about half past ten, and them were, it is said, ofera hundred people on the bridge wheir suddenly without any warning une Vì tc năng cả chich các brides TOÁN NHAN panded sipped, and the bridge, stili held by the stim na the other side turned the tipping most of its live ountants into the water, the dry bad of the river, or the maner undor-neath as the ore might be. The bridge then par ially righted itself and ungt and fro, with about 20 or 24 frizi tened men sud wonen, who had minn apel to a fogmap of the iron mil. clining to it.
To the pouple who stood ven sibhu's side, weither shot to cross or having just done wo, the shock was terrible ong, as may be imaginada gaily dressed, happy crowd of men med semen many of the latter with strildren is their
artos, a sudden erns, and
the air suddenly rent with skricks which contid
samedically ns after the dikobarge of human
tu vho bad bodies after the fis
is partial":
bolo
the tail and planks of the bridge dropped' intervals
from the
the swaying im
tances in unnection with the
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im stractare.
e fortunate, one i
bring that the river A dightly in food and the other thr the withe severtheless was only about fur teen deep if the river had been termal there would have been
a great
eat an of exposed led of stones. Thore who fell into i the water, as far as we have been to
+6 lein sped without sets injury, though they at first presented a more n inding scene than the others-frightened men and women strugglig, in the water. the and childras uttering the mĚ pincing cries. axsisted to the appily they were neily
the crowd. On bunk by the the hul bed of the river groaning man and when by huddled together in hespa in a pinces, some of them trying to to their feat, so succeeding und. others killing in their efforts. High above all were the so less, frightened soul-sique
of the women--clinging f
fer den life t the bridge suspended fam the ki
solity wire rope, which "might give At ay moment. Happily there. ware plenty of willing hands. The operations were direct d „by ongiuones employed. in a work alone by, while the cards. reulered
willhy waistsnor, Fons of the pergabe on the bridge warmed along to the and thout arrinte uthor lind to be help. In the martime the injured bad
hein levaghit up to the inde
mah ww* found a tally dend. other died on the way to Palhawela station. Another man, wealthy vilinger,
clic in the station.
OUR Oarely 76 wits of the Inttery.
hetwolf, was pream, but she stared to go to the ho pizal, aying that she must go to make Arrangements for the funeral. There were about 10 injured.. #2 of them severely, of When Kleen ware Lnant, by - texin, to Kurunegalle hospital.
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