A DAM BURSTS.
DISASTER IN CALIFORNIA. FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED. • HUNDRED FAMILIES CUT OFF. :,-' Telegraph—Pre?? Association— Copyright.' (Received January 30. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, -January 29. At least fifty persons were killed by •he bursting of the lowor dam of the California Water Company, reVwins e!«Ten" million gallons in the Tay Valley. It devastated an area fifteen niiles long and two miles wide. The damage is estimated at a million foliar*. A hundred families are cut iff from communication and are threatened with famine.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17079, 31 January 1916, Page 8
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83A DAM BURSTS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17079, 31 January 1916, Page 8
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