BIG DAM BURSTS.
FAMILY SWEPT AWAY. I MUCH STOCK DROWNED. A WELSH CATASTROPHE. "By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.; (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 3. The North Wales Power Company's supply, dam at Dolgaxrog burst, and 180,000;000 tons of water poured down the hillside One family is missing. Hundreds of sheep and cattle are Irowned. Houses were torn from their foundations and destroyed. Streams of rushing water 40 yards wide tctesed great boulders about like :orks.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) SEVEN BODIES FOUND. SEVENTEEN STILL MISSING. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, November. 3. Seven bodies have been recovered, while seventeen. are still missing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1925, Page 7
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