FLOODS IN WALES.
THE RHONDA VALLEY UNDER WATER.
BURSTING OF A DAM
EIGHT LIVES LOST,
NARROW ESCAPES
[Press Association— Copyright.] LONDON, Saturday. A dam in the Rhondda Valley burst, causing heavy loss. Houses were flooded at Clydackvale. and several collapsed, killing a mother and her infant in bed. and six others, mostly children, were drowned in the roaring torrent.
There were many narrow escapes, the residents being washed out of their houses. .
Nine hundred children in the schoolhouse were saved through the teachers' promptitude, and the playground wall withstanding the flood. The children were passed through the windows to colliers wading in four feet of water.
The fiood swept huge boulders on to the railway, blocking traffic
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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