DAM BURSTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19447, 5 November 1925, Page 8

DAM BURSTS

DISASTER IN NORTH WALES SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED SEVENTEEN MISSING. LONDON. Nov. 3. The North Wales Power Company’s supply dam at Dolgarrog burst and j ISi 1.000.000 tons of water poured down I the hillside. * One family is missing. Hundreds of ' sheep and cattle were drowned. Houses were torn from their foundaI tion<s and destroyed. Streams of rushing water forty ; yards wide tossed great boulders about j like corks. 1 Seven bodies have been recovered and seventeen are still missing in the Welsh dam disaster. NIGHT OF UNPRECEDENTED HORROR WHOLE VALLEY OVERWHELMED. A RAGING TORRENT. Received Nov. 4. 7.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 4. Details of the Dolgarrog disaster show that the night was, one of unprecedented horror. The whole of the : valley was overwhelmed by a raging Horrent from a lake fourteen hundred 'feet above sea level. It swept down the mountain side fifty feet high with tremendous noise. Many homes were along the path. Parents grabbed chilfdren from beds and fled to safety. When the morning came the valley was 'strewn with wreckage, houses, furniture and carcases of animals. Large j quantities of wreckage were swept along the river Conway to the sea six jmiles away. The latest report states that thirteen are missing. ; Regarding the report that a woman and nine children were drowned, five of ibe children are safe. The body of one child was found floating on a mat- ; tress eight miles from the scene of the ■disaster. The latest estimate is that thirteen i perished. Reseuers frequently waded Ito their necks to save those struggling in the torrent. Their self-sacrifice alone prevented a vastly greater death-roll. The valley is still a shocking scene of desolation.