HUGE DAM BURSTS.—The enormous Shyck Dam, near the confluence of the Shyck River and the upper course of the Indus, in the mountains of Kashmir, recently burst and the flood-waters advanced rapidly into the lower valleys. Photograph shows the Little Khumdan Glacier which, cutting across the stream of the Shyck—in 1926—formed a dam, the bursting of which caused great alarm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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60HUGE DAM BURSTS.—The enormous Shyck Dam, near the confluence of the Shyck River and the upper course of the Indus, in the mountains of Kashmir, recently burst and the flood-waters advanced rapidly into the lower valleys. Photograph shows the Little Khumdan Glacier which, cutting across the stream of the Shyck—in 1926—formed a dam, the bursting of which caused great alarm. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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