Yesterday a party of young people started for a picnic at the fails. In the course of the afternoon, when in bathing above the falls, there was a thunder storm, and about the heaviest rain we have had this season. A number of the party were in the water, but one lady from South China was out and had dressed. The rain came 80 suddenly, as it often does here, that, I was told, in the space of five minutes the spate had risen eight feet. The bathers mostly saw it in time to get out and up on the rocks, where I believe four had to pend the night in their bathing costumes. This lady, as the story goes, turned to pick ap a bathing costume, then fling up her hands as she saw, too late, the rush of water. She was seen to clutch a tree which broke with her weight and the water carried her away. The search party was out all night and all ¢his forenoon, but has still not recovered her body.
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7 this evening the search party had not returned, and there is no word of the body being found. Tt seems that through the aight the searchers tried by flinging a rope to get warm clothing sent over to the four on the rocks, but it wae only when the stream went down a little, in the carly hours of the morning, that this was accomplish-
The local office of the Northern Presbyterian Mission has received news that the lady drowned at Kuling was Miss H. E. Kunkle of the South China Mission, stationed at Liuchow in Kuangtung.
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