GREAT DAM BURST IN AMERICA
»- WHOLE VALLEY' DEVASTATED FAMILIES CUT OFF By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright ' (Ilec. January 30, 5.5 p.m.) ' New York, January 29. At least fifty persons were killed as the result of the bursting of the lower dam of tho South California Water Company, releasing eleven million gallons. The Tay Valley was devastated over an'area fifteen miles long and two miles wide.,, , ■ The damage is estimated at oi® million dollars. One hundred families have been cut off from communication with tho world and are threatened with famine.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 6
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89GREAT DAM BURST IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 6
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