A Terrible Calamity in France.
A RESERVOIR BURSTS. SEVENTY-SIX LIVES LOST. (Per Press Association.) Paris, April 28. Early yesterday morning tlie Bousey reservoir, containing seven million cubic metres, burst and inundated the country between Epinal and Cbatel. The flood destro3*ed six miles of tbe banks of the Eastern Canal, and increasing in volume to a torrent tore down tbe Epinal valley and swept away farm bouses, bridges, and iv some instances whole plantations. The water finally emptied itself iuto tbo Mo'-elle river at Chatel 11 miles distant from the burst. Numerous villages were destroyed, and not a single house remains in Bousey or Darnieulles. A few houses are standing at Les Forges, which place was previously inhabited by 1400 people. Twenty-nine persons were drowned at Urequency. Altogether over 50 were drowned. The damage is estimated at two millions sterling. Many residents escaped in their night-clothes. Terrible distress prevails in the districts inundated. Later. The total number of those drowned by the disaster to the reservoir was 7fi.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 253, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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