COLLAPSE OF A DAM
COLORADO VALLEY SWEPT BY FLOOD New York, August 24. A report from Pueblo, Colorado, states that 1000 people are homeless as the result of the flooding of the Apishana River Valley by the breaking of an irrigation reservoir dam. A wall of water 25 feet deep rushed across tho valley, carrying away houses and trees, and destroying highways and telegraph and telephone services. The inundated area is fifty miles Jong. The inhabitants had ample warning, and escaped to higher -ground, but live stock were necessarily left to perish. The property damaged is estimated at 600.000 dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 292, 27 August 1923, Page 8
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102COLLAPSE OF A DAM Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 292, 27 August 1923, Page 8
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