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ICE DAM BREAKS.

HUGE FLOOD RELEASED.

DISASTER IN INDIA.

Hill Villages Threatened.

CALCUTTA, Aug. 14.

Villages in Kashmir and the northern   parts of the Punjab are in grave danger as the resuIt of the collapse of a mammoth ice   barrier which was holding back millions of tons of water pent up in the former bed of   the River Shayok, in the Karakoram Range near Loh (Kashmir). The dam burst at 9 o'clock on Sunday night, and a torrent is now rushing with great force down to the plains from a height of 17,000ft.  

All villages below the flood level of the Indus have been evacuated and thousands of refugees are pouring into Peshawur.

Colonel Howell, British Resident at Kashmir, who was encamped on the site of the dam for several days, first gave warning of the break. Immediately a chain of giant bonfires was lighted stretching for     200 miles along lofty mountains and river banks. To assist in the evacuation large forces of police and soldiers were posted on the banks of the Kabul and Indus rivers. Nowshera, a large military station, has

been evacuated.

It is feared that if the Attock bridge is swept away the north-west frontier will   be cut off.

Before the collapse of the ice barrier the lake was nine miles long and 500ft. deep in places. The ice wall was 1200ft. thick and 1,000ft wide. The water level has been rising 2ft. a day for several weeks.

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