Shanghai, Oct. 2. a serious accident in Shang! yesterday when the U.S.S. Augusta and H.1J.MS. Idzumo collided corner of Bubbling Well and Mohawk Roads."
Ni cident" did not acc It was one Shanghai wit's way of describing yester and the appearance of this city~-not when one considers how many roads were not covered with water during the day.
Cer tainly there was enough water in parts to float a nice little sampan flect—a Meet that would have done quite a consider amount of busi ess had it been able to reach cer eas in the Western and even some further dow Shanghai's poor their best to hope will the terriie and steady downpour, one of the big Hest in years, from carly morning Until night but it was a hopeless job and floods made their appearance quite early. 'The "Lake District" or the Wing On area of Nanking Roud lived up to its reputation and here it was Impossible to cross the street foot, unless one did not mind dirty, swirling water, flapping against one's' thighs. Most people did mind und rickshaws pullers did quite a trade erossing the street with passengers, who pald well to escape the wind, rain and the waves, As'a result of the downpour scores of streets were flooded and tram ser-viees In' the French Concession be-able as is always the case here when there is a heavy rainfall, it is a safe bet to state that, perhaps, only une or two of them' could have hod fairly accurate idea of the vastness of the flooding by nightfall as it was seen by a "North-China Daily News" reporter, who made an extensive tour of the eily by bus and riekshaw—taxi and tram services having stopped Owing {0 the floods—to paint a verbal picture of the elly as it appeared to him.
The most striking sight was. the number of cars stranded along Nan king and Bubbling Well Roads, which were turned into canals by the con tnetn "hue Chapel, an Tus Pol] Unuous vail"
eau were suspended.
Buses, trams, rickshaws "and" other" enterprising Every ten "sies splashed way through swirling waters in paris of the d oun urchins, 0 at the same and. enterprising two ekidh only Jolly. good tidy "sum Chinese' were bushing. the ears. alt though there were quite a number that had been " aban Road, just truckfuls of Marines found themselves two or three ears, whose. drive center inundated a ries refused to bulge notwithstanding all the efforts exerted by the drivers to start them going. A score of marines, knee-deep in Water wert pushing the forriex in an attempt Bel of of the flooded part of the freet, while others remained Insid
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