Show HOMES AWAY BY TORRENT inhabitants OF TWO VILLAGES DRIVEN TO THE HILLS BY BREAKING OF DAM quick work cl c rel telephone ephone operator prevent prevents heavy loo of life when wall of water rushes down fertile valley syracuse N Y warned by a telephone operator that the dam had broken persons residing in the valley of 0 millbrook county fled to the hills and then watched the torrent wash their homes away aay the breaking of the dam a lake two miles long halt half a mile wide and fifty feet deep upon the valley today it covers two vil lages the flood swept with it two other dams and three power plants causing over oyer damage that no lives were lost Is due to the quick work of a telephone girl in the port henry exchange who he notified the allbrook Nili brook valley folk to flee the llIe dam was a new structure of at concrete it waa was sixty feet high and feet wide |