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PLOT SUSPECTED.

BURST DAM DISASTER.

Calamity Result Of Ranchers'

Quarrel ?

OVE& 450 LIVES LOST.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright)

NEW YORK, March 21

Information which has come into the hands of the police has raised the question whether the collapse of the St. Francis dam, in the San Franeisquito Valley, north of Los Angele3, on March 13, was the result of a plot by dj'namitards.

This theory is supported by the fact that the disaster followed upon a long legal battle between the City of Los Angeles and hundreds of ranchers about irrigation and the flooding of the lowlands.

Certain discoveries made in vhe vicinity of the..scene of the disaster have strengthened the suspicions. The latest figures show that more than 450 lives were lost through the bursting of the dam and the consequent floods.

— (Sydney "Sun.")

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Bibliographic details

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7

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PLOT SUSPECTED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7

PLOT SUSPECTED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7