BURSTING OF A DAM:
SEVERAL LIVES LOST. (Received 13, 5 p.m ) LONDON, March 11. The dam iv Rhonda Valley burst j and flooded the houses at Clydacvale. Several collapsed, killing a mother and infant who were in bed Six others, mostly children, were drowned by th*» roaring torrent. There were many narrow escapes, residents being washed out of their houses. Nine hundred children in the schoolhouse were saved through the teachers' promptitude, and the playground wall withstanding tbe flocd, the children passed through the windows to the colliers who were wading in four feet of water. The flood swept huge boulders on to tbe railway, b ocking traffic.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5484, 14 March 1910, Page 3
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