RESERVOIR BURSTS.
JAPANESE DISASTER. TOKIO, Nov. 20. At least 300 were killed when the banks of a reservoir above the Osarusawa copper mine, at Akita, collapsed and many miners’ houses were washed •away. The dam, which is 700 feet long and 200 feet high, burst owing to heavy rain and overwhelmed six villages containing 1300 inhabitants, who were swept amid the debris of the houses into the Dishirogawa River, from which 250 bodies have been recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 9
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