RESERVOIR DAM BREAKS.
INUNDATION IN COLORADO
HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE,
lElec. Tel. CopyrlgUt—Unlteil Press 'iAustralian and N.Z Cable Association
(Received August 25, 9 a.m.) NEW YORE, Aug. 23
A telegram from Pueblo, Colorado, states that a thousand persons are homeless as the result of the Hooding of the Apishapa river valley by the breaking of an h-rigation reservoir dam, whence a twenty-five foot fall of water rushed across the valley, carrying houses and trees and destroying highways, telegraph and telephone services. i The inundated area is fifty miles long. The inhabitants had ample warning and escaped to higher ground, but live stock was necessarily left to perish. The property damage is estimated at six hundred thousand dollars.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16213, 25 August 1923, Page 5
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