Yesterday afternoon, a large number of P.ysons who were watching the course of Dragon Bout during that festival here, fell into the canal where the water was ten or more feet deep and many of them were drowned. have no: been able to get the full partizalars, but 1 have gathered up the following story:—'The Dragon Boat itself was mide in the large canal outside the West Water Gate. It was made up by the lumber merchants whose shops Tine the canal at that place. The boat was to enter the city throayh this gate and proceed along the canal within the city wail it reached Fu Tsz Miao, the great sporting place of the city. There it was to have gone about under certain bridges and later to have returned whence it came. For some reason there was a long delay in getting started, and the people ware getting impatient at having fo wait go long. This made them all the more eager when it did come to see all that there was to seo. The bridges wore crowded mostly by young men and boys, some of whom were even sitting up on the railing that they might seo the better. As the best came they sll naturally crowded to the side from which it was coming, but as it could be seen for some time before it reached them thers was no great crush.
The trouble came just after the boat passed under one of the Thers was a sudden rash to the made a pressure too great for the railing. It gave way o ing with it all who were seated on it, well og those who were leaning againat it i As usual the dumb-r is variously estimated. Some sly thirt or forty went down, others say hu However many there were the loss is great. Many might have been saved had there deen any system used; but in the general mix-up which followed, only ten or twelve, Tunders'and, came out alive, Those who were navigating the boat, fearing the conseque.ces to themselves, left their boat where it was and fled. T have not heard how many budless have been recovered.
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