THE-WELSH FLOOD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 November 1925, Page 7

THE-WELSH FLOOD.

A NIGHT OF HORROR. MANY SAVED AT GREAT RISK. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRHIGT. LONDON, Nov. 3. Details of tliei Dolgarrog disaster show that the night was one of unprecedented horror. The whole valley was overwhelmed by the raging torrent. The lake is 1400 ft above sea level, and thei water swept down the mountain-side, in a stream 50ft deep, with a tremendous noise. In many homes along the path of the flood parents grabbed 1 their children from their beds and fled! to safety.. When the morning came the valley i.as strewn with wreckage of houses, furniture, and carcasses of animals, and large quantities of wreckage were swept along the River Conway to the sea six miles away. Regarding a report that a woman and nine children had been drowned., it lias been found that five of the chiludren are safe. The body of one. child was found floating on a mattress eight miles from the scene of I da ® The latest estimate is that thirteen perished. Rescuers frequently waded up to their necks to savethose struggling in the torrent. Their self sacrifice alone prevented a. vastly greater death roll. The valley s shocking scene of desolation.