SUPPLY DAM BURSTS
TORRENTS OF WATER.
CAUSE MUCH HAVOC ONE FAMILY MISSING
BY CABLE —PREBI. ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Nov. 4, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 3. The North Wales Power Company’s supply dam at Dolgarrog burst, and 180,000,000 tons of water poured down the hillside. Qne family is missing. Hundreds of sheep and cattle were drowned. Houses were torn from thenfoundations and destroyed. Streams of rushing water 40 yards wide tossed great boulders about like corks.
SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED
SEVENTEEN PEOPLE MISSING
Received Nov. 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 3. Seven bodies have been recovered and seventeen people are still missing in the Welsh dam disaster. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 November 1925, Page 5
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