FLOODS IN SOUTH WALES
(British Official Wireless).
SERIOUS DAMAGE REPORTED Families Isolated In Houses.
RUGBY, Nov. 20. There was a serious recurreuce of floods in South AYales yesterday, following lieavy and continuous rain tliroughout Monday night. Rain was still falling last night and the position is likely to become worse. Serious damage has been causcd and large areas are under water. A large portion of the railway near Peath has been swept away and another railway service suspended owing to the flooding of a tunnel. A land&lide at Wattstown cut off approaches to collieries at Taylorstown and 1500 men are idle iu consequence. Work has been stopped in the copper mines and tinworks at Cwmavon. Owing to floods and Jandslides the dam wall ot Duffryn. Lake burst, flooding cottages, wliose occupants tvere rescued from hedroom windows, and at Cyfeillion, in Glamorgwnsliire, the occupants of flooded houses were only rescued after roofing slates were stripped off. Eighty families near Pontypridd are cut off and confined to the upper roonis of their houses, and cottages at (.'aerleon, Bassareo and Rogerstone are in a similar plight. Landslides and floods necessitated the abandonment of some houses at Cwmavon. Relief measures were immediately undertaken by the Mayor of Swausea
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 250, 22 November 1929, Page 8
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204FLOODS IN SOUTH WALES Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 250, 22 November 1929, Page 8
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