FIRE ON THE CANTON RIVER.
AS IF poor China were not in trouble enough just now, with a terrible plague still in rather full swing and with war and rumors of war, she must needs go and set herself on fire a few days ago. The following telegram has arrived from Hong Kong:
“A terrible fire has occurred on the Canton river among the flower-boats which crowd the surface and form the permanent dwellings of a large number of the population. Hundreds of flower boats were destroyed, and fully one thousand natives must have perished. The boats were moored stem and stern in rows, and the flames spread with such rapidity that many of the craft were fully alight and their occupants overcome before they could cut the boats from their moorings and push them out into the open water.”
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