A RESERVOIR BURSTS.
; NUMEROUS LIVES LOST. (Recaiyed Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) I ( . MADRID, January 14. ,usdor mining the masonry CStttsea the bursting of a reservoir of 250,000 cubic metres at Hueha, in the night time. , j The torrent of water overwhelmed {people sleeping in their tents, and destroyed sections, mining, and railj ways. f i One tra, n was derailed, the fireman \ !• being killed and the driver's two legs Amputated. £ At least eleven persons ware killed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10138, 16 January 1911, Page 5
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76A RESERVOIR BURSTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10138, 16 January 1911, Page 5
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