FATAL FLOODS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13796, 5 February 1917, Page 3

FATAL FLOODS.

f j i thXmes valley inundated, 1 T I - , SEVERAL LIYRS LOST, i nmnr.Rs m rAhavays DAMAGED. WASHOUT ON MAIN TRUNK, > 'Mrs Association-■ < ''AUCKLAND, February 4. :Reports. show, that,in' the' Hoods in * the Thames, Valley and .North Auckland) a settled named-Alfred Attwood, j ■ twenty-five years, of- age was drowned I '< hi?ar Kawakaw'a,'while fording, a flooded river, Two- gum, diggers Patrick rower and Alfred Jac'obson, wore' car: rifid away in a ,wharo : by: {liq .Waiiw- : river and drowned. - -Slips are reported;on the North Auckland line. The cutting at the iiiouth of the tunnel' at-Aharoroa felt in and at Wellsford both sides of the cutting collapsed'. " 'V At. Wagly the line is ten feet under water, aiid' bridges and roads are reported damaged. - In the Thames Valley the lino is inundated for,a'-considerable distance.' A washout occurred on the main trunk line this morning near Drnry, but -the northward bound train was enabled to get through after slight delay, ■