WALL OF WATER.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 9

WALL OF WATER.

RACES DOWN A GALLEY. SIX EUNDREB DEAJ) IN ITALY. (_T CAM*—Paat-S, --SSOCLITXOB COPTSIOST.) SOME, December 4. Further advices reganling the Bergamo disaster, state that the embankment which gtjwe W3y was constructed two years ago, and was 2000 metres long by 30 metres thick. The lake formed by the embankment rested at aon altitudo of 2000 metres above CornsThe caose.<rf -the disaster is unknown. All thai can be said is that a gigantic w*ve €0 to 70 metres high raced down the narrow valley, overwhehning everything in its course. The- wave reached Corn* carrying, such a mass of debris that the river Ogtio was blocked; and forced backwards. The iniabit-mte of -the Val Dazngolo had no chance to escape, and the vast majority were overwhelmed and now lie buried deep in mud which the inundation left behind it. It is not expected that the actual number of deaths will ever be known, but it io believed that they total at least 600. The King hurried to the Bcene, and is assisting in relief work. [Owing to torrential rain in tl_e province of Bergamo, Northern Italy, a dam at Lake Jandino burst, and its waters destroyed villages and swept away factories, bridges and railways. The damage is estimated at several million lire.]