Two foreigners had an exceedingly Incky escape at Haining Int Monday morning. A large number of Chines" witnessed the midday bore on Sunday from the pavilion near the Pagoda, and there was nothing abnormal in its appearance. On Monday morning, at 2.15, two foreigners were among the spectators who assembled to watch the night bore. Being somewhat tired they walked as far as the buttress, and then retarned and awaited the bore on the pavilion steps. The first bore came in about twelve feet high, and the native spectators naturally assumed that the spectacle was over, and several of them gathered at the foot of the pavilion steps. Suddenly, however, and hour warning, a second wave, between thirty and forty feet la height, raced across the Bay and dashed over the sea wall, Three Chinese were washed right away, while a fourth was hurled against the pavilion wall and killed instantaneously. Before the bore appeared three mysterious lights [mere seen for. off ju the offing, which the Chinese characterized as "devil lights." Though they were quite possibly the lights from distant fishing junks, the subsequent disaster naturally con-inoed the Chinese that their appearance was an ominous portent of what was to follow, Part of the pavilion wall was washed away. Foreigners who go to see the bore about the time of the Spring or Autamn Equinox would do well to view it from safe height, as pon several occasions unwary spectators have barely escaped with their lives.
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