ALGERIAN DAM BURSTS
OVER 300 DROWNED
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association,
PARIS, Nov. 27. Floods in Algeria broke a dam and burst an underground river. Many houses 'in various towns collapsed. Aeroplanes are rendering aid to the people rendered homeless in out of the way places. Trains were held up in several directions.
Tile drowned are believed to number more than three hundred. The promptness of the engineer (AY. I*ergoud) of the dam, in sending out telephone messages gave forty minutes’ warning to the people in the picturesque town of Perregaux (railway junction on the Habra River, forty miles east of Oran) that the dam was about to collapse, and averted an appalling disaster. The majority or the ten thousand inhabitants were enabled to rush to the bills, where they are at present isolated and destitute.
’Fhe flood engulfed trains, twisting the engines and bridges in fantastic shapes. Two Europeans were seen clinging to a tree top, hut help was impossible, and they were overwhelmed. Rescuers are endeavouring to reach a marooned train in which are many starving children, without food and water. LONDON. Nov. 28. The “Daily Mail’s” Algiers’ correspondent reports tliat the Fergaid Dam. six hundred yards long and a hundred feet high, collapsed. Mostagenem wireless messages state that the situation is terrible. Waters poured in through the railway tunnel, destroying factories and warehouses, and all drains hurst. A hundred casualties are mentioned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 2
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