A BROKEN DAM
VALLEY SWEPT BY FLOOD ,
HEAVY IN COLORADO.
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(AUSTRALIAN - NSW ZEALAND CABUS ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 25th' August, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, 24th August. A. report from Pueblo, Colorado, slates that a thousand people are homeless as the result of the/flooding of the Apishapa River .Valley by the breaking of an irrigation reservoir dam. A fall of water 25 feet deep rushed across the valley, carrying away houses and trees, and. destroying Mghways and telegraph and telephone services; The inundated area is fifty miles long." 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.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 7
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114A BROKEN DAM Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 7
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