WALL OF WATER
RESERVOIR DAM BREAKS.
DISASTER IN COLORACQ.
Press Ass'^iation—Copyright. Aus tralian an** N.Z Cable .Association..
(Received 9.5 a.m.)
New York, August 23.
A telegram from Pueblo, Colorado, states that 1000 persons are, homeless as the result of the Hooding cr Apishapa river valley by the break ing of the irrigation reservoir dam, whence a 25-foot wall of water rusbtd across the volley, carrying houses and trees aud destroying the highways, and the telegraph and telephone services.
The inundated area is fifty miles The inhabitants had ample warning, and escaped to higher ground but the Hive stock was necessarily left to perish.
fhe property damage is estimated at 600,000 dollars.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 25 August 1923, Page 5
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