A DAM BURSTS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 61, 14 March 1910, Page 5

A DAM BURSTS.

LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 12. A dam at Rhonnda Valley, Glamorganshire, burst, .causing heavy loss. It flooded many houses at Clydevale and several collapsed, killing a mother and her infant in bed. Several others, mostly children, were drowned in the roaring torrent. There were many narrow escapes, residents 'being washed out of their houses. Nine hundred children in a schoolhouse were saved through the teacher's promptitude, arid the playground wall withstanding the flood. The children were passed through windows to colliers, wading in four feet of water. The flood swept huge boulders on to the railway, blocking -the traffic.