FLOODS IN SOUTH WALES.
DAMAGE IN SWANSEA VALLEY. MANY PEOPLE ; HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright •-' ', London, December : :18.;jff Large areas in the : Swansea Valley are under water owing -to . the flooding of the Tawe. ; " -;- " -.- Many factories and workers' houses are inundated. Scores are homeless. ■ ';:.:■ ,-:/h ■>■'•;. % A bridge at Aberdare (an iron and coal ■•;•■ mining town) collapsed,?; and. two boys were drowned. RAILWAY '. SERVICES : CEASE. ; ; ' y .(Received,; December 19,; 9 pjn.). ~' . London, December 19. The tinplate ~ works at the * Ppntardaw have been inundated, and 500 people have been;rendered idle. Railway bridges have been swept away and railway services are suspended. ' .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 9
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