DAM BURSTS
CAUSES GREAT DEVASTATION
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
CALCUTTA, July H
The great Shy ok dam wlr'cli h'.'d h a( .k a huge, artificial lake, nine miles l on <y, half’ri mile wide, and seventeen feet"” deep in Karakoram Range, has burst, and the river Indus is in a floor ’of over fifty feet- carrying, with it wrecked buildings and uprooted trees. Fearing a repetition of thc-dum-age when the dam hurst in 1929,-.Pun-jab nnd Ka. .limit’ Governments or,dor? ed the evncaution,.pf the . low lying, villages'in Indus valley.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1932, Page 5
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