Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-09
BOG ENCULFS HOUSES
Efforts Fail to Stop Big Slide
in ireland.
PEOPLE FLEE FOR LIVES
Slipping Mass Steadily Creeping
Toward Their Homes.
WOMAN SUFFOCATED IN BED
Public Works Department Blamed
for Failure to Prevent Disaster
in County Galway.
PEOPLE FLEE FOR LIVES
WOMAN SUFF0CATED IN BED
Special Cahlecram TO The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star
DUBLIN February 9.-The danger to
the unfortunate residents In the vicinity
Of the disastrous bog-slide at kilmore.
County Galway. is by no means at an
end. The bog Is still moving slowly in
the direction of the houses not yet over
Whelmed in the locality. The efforts to
check the movement of such an enormous
mass. although carried on by several
hundred men. have had little appreeciable
effect The families driven from their
homes Monday and Tuesday last were
for the most part accommodated by
neighbors. many of whom have little
enough room for their own families
These neighbors are. indeed. themselves
in hourly expectation of having to take
to flight, for the bog. when once in mo-
ton, is apt to take sudden plunges and
to cover much ground with extraordinary
rapidity. All night long the people re-
main up, most of them out of doors, In
the pitiless weather, fearing that If they
seek the rest many of them so much need
they may be entering on their last sleep.
The houses deserted are covered UP 10
the roof tiles. On a green mound. close
to one of the houses surrounded by the
bog, are group of pigs and dog. which
were unable to escape in time and were
nOpoleSSiy cut OH 1loIl SAFETY. Al dh-
other house all the stock except the
fowl was got out in time. These. after
rooSting all day the trees, made all
attempt in the evening to get to the hard
land. but on flying down on the bog they
were Immediately engulfed.
Victims Body Recovered.
The body of the old woman. McDon-
nell, who was killed. was recovered by
one of the police. who let himself down
with a rope into the interior Of the house.
She had evidently been overwhelmed in
her sleep, as she was in her nightclothes,
and the body was found close to the bed.
Her son. a corporal in the 9th Dragon
Guards, was present when the body was
recovered, and, worn out by the inces-
SAINT search for the remains, he tainted
and with considerab BILE difficulty was re-
moved to safe ground. When bringing the
body of the drown woman to the land
young man named Kane narrowly es-
capped suffocation. Slipping off the planks,
he was immersed to the neck when he
was rescued
Efforts to drain off the water are still
being continued. In this work great as
sistance will be obtained from an i'm
mense chasm that has opened in the
high bog. from which the water is rush.
ing in torrents. The bog is moving in
the direction of the River Suck.
There Is feeling in the district that
neither of the public department which
are responsible for this bog has rendered
the assistance it might have done to
check the further advance of the slide.
The congested districts board some time
ago cleaned up the Cloonlion river, which
drains the bog, but only to where it meets
the bog tributaries. Had the river been
extended through the bog the disaster
could not have occurred