Bog Slide Unchecked

Dublin, Deq. 29.- During the past terrible night and morning the bog slide at Castle island, County Kerry, continued unchecked. A copious rain feil. helping the movement. The mass of bog is a mile and half wide, roars like an ocean, carries away bridges and roads, destroying houses and farms, Eweeping through the Flesk valley and empting peat, carcasses of cows, sheep and donkeys and debris of houses into the Lake of Killarney. People living in the direction in which the bog slide is coming have fled, and the pólice, searching for bodies, are arrivlng on all sides. Lord Kenmare has caused a cordon of guards to be drawn around the slide in order to prevent loss of life. The gréatest excitement prevails in the vicinity and all the houses there are open to receive the hundreds of people rendered homeless by the disaster. An Kxtrivoiilhmr.v Allnir. The subsidence of the bog near Castle island, County Kerry, seems to have been an extraordinary affair. There were terrible storms through the night, and about 3 o'clock in the morning the people of the district were alarmed by an unusual rumblirig, which they feared was caused by an earthquake. The bog, which was believed to be thirty feet deep, and which had long supplied the whole neighborhood wïth peat, was moved for several miles along an old water course, filling a quarry twenty feet deep on the way, flooding the rivers of the country with peat 'water, and doing a deal of damage. At the Donelly homestead ten persons have completéis disappeared, leaving no trace.