FATAL DAM BURST.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13023, 14 March 1910, Page 5

FATAL DAM BURST.

SWEEPS THE RHONDDA VALLEY. . / Several Fatalities, Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, March 12| A dam in the-Rhondda Valley burfct, inflicting heavy losses. 1 .The, rushing water flooded houses in Clydaevale, and several collapsed, killing a mother arid an infant, who were in bed’: Six others, mostly children, were drowned in the roaring torrent. There were many narrow escapes. - • Many residents were washed out of their houses. ■ Nine hundred children in a schoolhousewere saved through the teachers’ promptitude and the playground wall withstanding the flood., The children were passed through the windows • to- colliers, wading through four feet of water, The flood swept huge boulders on to the railway, blocking A l ’ o traffic.