Prospector’s Narrow Escape. A narrow escape fom drowning was experienced by a gold prospector recently when a cloudburst occurred in the gorge of the Sowburn Creek, about ,two miles above Patearea, Otago. The man, who was working at the lower end of the gorge, was able to climb out to safety just as the wall of water reached the place where his sluice boxes were situated. The deluge which followed the cloudburst washed a large quantity of debris into the stream, and the volume of water caused two dams to break, with the result that in a very few moments there was a raging torrent rushing through the gorge. Considerable damage was done to the land on each side of the stream as far down as the main road through Patearoa. ..
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1935, Page 7
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