GREAT DISASTER IN FRANCE.
BURSTING OF A RESERVOIR. SEVENTY-SIX PERSONS DROWNED. Received April 29,1 a.m. Paris, April 28, j Early yestorday morning the Bousoy Reservoir, containing 7,000,000 cubic metres, burst, and inundated the couutry between Epinal and Chatel.
The flood destroyed six miles of banks of the Eastern Canal, and increasing in volumo as the torrent tore down the Epinal Valley, swopt away _ farm houses, bridges, and in some instances whole plantations. The water finally emptied itself in the Moselle river at Chatel, eleven miles distant from the Roservoir. Numerous villages were destroyed, and not a single house remains iu Bonsey or Darnieulles. A few houses arc standing at Los Forges, which place was previously inhabited by 1400 people, Twenty-mne persons were drowned atExoguencv, and altogether, over 11% are drowned. The damage is estimated at two millions sterling. Many residents escaped in their night clothes. Terrible distress prevails in the districts inundated. Racked April 29, 11.30 a.m. Pauls, April 28. The total number of those drowned by the disaster to the reservoir, was .76.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5012, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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174GREAT DISASTER IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5012, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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