Five Persons Drowned

At an early hour tlie other morning the people in the neighborhood of King's grist mili, in Ingereoll, ()nt., whlch is situatod in the southwest portion of the town, were startled by a peculiar noiso as of a mighty rush of water. The noise was caused by a portion, about eightecn feet, of the northernly embankment of the mili dain, whlch was about fifteen feet higher than the surrounding land, giving way and (orgi&g onward in a northernly direction towards the Rlver Thames. After careering through the mill-yard the great volume of water struck the engine house and demollshed and thcn spread forward across King strect toward a frame tenement building. Two-thhds of the structure was earrit'd along on the current towards the Thames. Of the twelve persons in the building at the time seven escaped with their lives and live were drowned. About 200 yards of the Credit Valley railway track was liftcd out of lts place, and a long switch running from the main line to tlio mili was completely swept away. The rail way track proper was made available for trallic ituring the afternoon. The pond covered about twenty acres, and the dam had a twelve-foot head. It had been allowed to go dry all lastsummer and was filled in the fall in order that the ice might be secmeil.