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FOREJDN MAILS f To be despatched from London. Sunday, Mar. 1J:— I OUTWARD.-Morrftw- T-b United S4atee> to., via Soutlxawpton, per 0. George W^bliingtan. XQDAY, MLARCH 14. Mominc- To Egypt, by ItaUar packet. To Tenenffe, via Spain. gvening- To West Coast of Airica, parcel M&iK vt& Liverpool, per. s. Yeild1.. I~Vg[L-Duo Sunday- From United States. &C., via QoeeoatovB. Due Monday- Fsoin West Coast of Africa, via LiverpooL Fieca United Stateo, &e., v Plymouth. Frota New Zealand, via Saa Fraa&isco.

MOVEMENTS OF LOCAL VESSELS. I Clonlee paawd Lizard for Newport 12th InTer arrived Penarth 12th Eochefort left Port Talbot for H»ul bow line 12th Skeldon left Cardiff for St. Malo 12th Jane Radcliffe left Plymouth, for Newport nth Paddington passed Constantimople for Weeer loth Bilbater left Santoa 10th Silver Wings left Barbadoft for Gull Porta 9th Boecawen on passage to London Larpool arrived Laa Palmas Uth Corinthia arrived "Eaugoon 10th Stonian passed Gibraltar 9th Riujrbeiaii left Port Said 10th Carthusina parsed Lizard 11th Ninian Stuart left Cardiff for Lisbon 11th ijftrriel left Cardiff for Arose Bay 11th Relillio arrived Cardiff 12th Cymrian arrived Cardiff 11th Daleby arrived Cinfttegos 10th lucwby paesed Galata for Maryport 10th Selby left Ayr for Glasgow 11th Trunkby left Buenoe Ayree for Cardiff 1tt.h Dunarter passed Constantinople 11th "Westward 50 left Barry 12th IQtyd left Constantinople tor Braila Oimnt Ernrfoo BuineUi. & rmod opera sinm. who slipped on the elope at the Leeeester-square tube station and injwed hiiaself, was awarded £1<> damages at the Westminster OouBty-ooart yeat^Tiliay «#MTint the BieeadiUy Tube Coopaay.

STOP PRESS — ♦ Latest Telegrams. late *T{"XTrS<S. Litest Bo.tung ra U C o ,i r ;e. —L: n cola shite PuAi- Ttp.13S3 to XdZ Valetu:. t, and 10M to 1<: age, C;derellc. t f3'l:t:ng-? tu 4 en «';•> G,}:ip. ttln!6 to _11 t'1:ik Clacl;. Half-time: Xeath. 6pt.~ ■, Aberavon, nil. Final. I>evon Albions, 9-iitc Pill Harriers 3-pts Fnna.l—Newport, 4 gcaU 1 try; Bry ifrow • y. JTiii-a 1 —>Feijarih, 10p<.>; Cardiff District 3pts HALF-TIME SC0BJ5— IEEJjAND, 3 points tWALBS, 8 pei«ts ,-=.. .o:vc- I I

I From All Quarters I Mr. J. T. Tweed, taws-olork of Linooln, died OBAY to-d>ay. General Booth reacted London ywterday from the Continent. Mxb. Ann Probert KUlby died at Clifton, Brfetol, yeeterday in her 16let year. The Countess of Dudley piaeeed a Tery good otat, and is progTetsaing c-adofactotiiy. The trvt Eng eueumbers of the aeoBon. reached Oovent Garden yesterday. Earl and GounAesa Pontofct left London yes- terday ter a ten mxmtbs' tqar roimud the world. The Rev. R. J. Campbeil will not be able to occupy the pulpit at the City Temple to- morrow. MM. John Unwan, the wife of a Hampshire labourer, liringr at Shodnwr, has given birth to triplets. nvamaa Long, a driver, fell from a gantry at the Caetle Trawling Comp«ay'a yard, Swansea, to-day, and was killed. "A good second-bajid bsuuoa cab can be bought nowadays for £ 5," a witness declared at the Clerkemwell County-court. A motion regarding the B&tteram "Brown Doe" Memorial was ordered in the Law Courts yaetorday to stand over. PrinoeM Henry oi Prussia, who returned to Germany to-day, paid a Tisit yeaterd*^ to the German Hospital a.t. Dateton. Alexander Ixyrgan, wfho shot Joan Menicol, a servant, in Edinburgh yesterday, died to- day. The em U kkooiy to reoorer. HiJmi paeba, who was Grand Vizier 01 the Ttcrkieh. Bmpire until December 1-t. visited the House of Commons yesterday. Aomoac the Parjiajnentary papers ieeoed UMm# is a Bill for taking a censos lor lielancl on Aopril Z. next year. Mr. B. J. Preajin, head of the brewing jirra of Jtwmljjn Brotiert and a strong advo- cate of t ern pera-aee, died yesterday at Maid- stone. At a. town's meeting yesterday at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, it was deoiaed to ob"don the ftuoioui^r r»l>lw«.y •eheme oa the ground ci expen". Mr. Joseph Korriaon, who died at Work- ingion j^eter^mr, roeel rom the position of poojr driver to that of manager of the St. Setees CoMi«ry Company. A naa wbo was accused at Croydon yes- tsiday of being intoxicated doetared he was able to say coherently to the police doctor. "Sbe stood upon the pter weWnming him is."

Oh, Yes, That is Right" I EX-POLICEMAN ACCUSED OF BIGAMY Daniel Peesey, painter and gtoKier, lonnertT a member of the Birmioghaan City PoJioe Force, was charged at Birmingham yesterday with bigamy and -with neglecting his wile and three children. Inspector Wheeler said the prisoner was arrested at Dartford, Kent, and when charged at Birmingham with neglecting his wife and efeikimi said, "You Toay gw weM. eoter araotbe? charge against me. I have committed bigmmy in London." Prisoner then gave witness cer- tain particulars, remarking that on Easter 1 Sunday, April 23, 1906, he was married to Exmna Swadling, a widow, at Christ Church, West Greem. Middlesex, adding, "We have one child as the result of the marriage, and she has one aJøo." He was charged with bigamy, and replied, "Oh, yes, that is right." Wheeler produced copies of the osrtidoates of the first marriage, at St. Margaret's Church, Birmme- ham, on April 9. 1858, and of that with Mrs. Swadling at Christ Church, West Green. In the latter certificate hp was described as Dan iel Timmg. 1 Emma 8 wad ling, of Ponder's End, Middle- < sex, said site met prisoner in a house where she was lodging as a widow. She went through the najriaes eepwawmy with iting on April 25, 1903. Prisoner had always treated her well, aud she had lived happily with him. He was moderately sober, and was industrious. Prisoner said nothing in uaffwar to the charge, and was committed to the anwao for trial.

BRECON COUNTY COUNCIL I LORD GLAJTTOK. Who has been elected chairman at the I council.

"LIVED WITH HIM AS WIFE." I There was a peculiar esoe of theft at New- port today, when a woman, named Aaaie Maud Hays-jc, was charged with steaJing an iron bedstead, a iwd, aaid a quaitHy of bed- ok>th«, va-!ut-d at Me. Edward Thomas, a labourer, of Hadley- gtre?-f, HogK^pstoine, stated that for the paet serem yenrs he had kt the prisoner in food aond provided b-r with a She-lter. On the 23rd of February she left. She said he tarned hR,r ont, because it was alleged tbaA she had kept company with undesirable men. Pro- eewutor said, wben he returned from work at nLgfot he would and «rtie4«« nriasing. He always locked the doors, but entrance wmA effected through a windew at the back of the house. On being queertkwied rtie ea-M She had pawned some of tbem to bUT fcod. Defendant toid the bench that sho baA livod with proeecwtOT as his wife for seven years. He had been cruel to her, and infl ated more tla4i one black eye. One nigiit when he oame home drank he ttOlM her to olear out, and she took him at his word. She oontended that ete waa just as much entitled to the artwea which formed the ba..IS of the charge ae be was. The case was dismissed. Proee.cutlot.r: MTiet about my thine*? The Clerk; You elear off. If you are not satisfied with thig go to the county-court.

30,000 ACRES TO BE SOLD I Lord Oolebrooke has decided to dispose oi hie estates on the southern borders of Scot- land. They extend to nearly 30,000 acres, and include the villages of Abrsglon, Ctauvford. john, Eivanfoot, atxl Crawford. besides G-iea- gonnar House aod Oilkersoleugh JIouø, with their respective grouse moors. The property runs through some fourteen miles of the most bea/utiful soepery in the south of Soot- land, and both the King &nd the Prince O'f Wales hare stayed at Glengonnar House. On the same day Wretham and Breccies, two of the best-known sporting properties in Nor- folk, will also be offered by aoetiou, Wretham includes part of and Fowlmere, and all of ere. H, and Miekle- mere, the la$t named being one of the few working decoys in East Angiia.

THE ART OF LIVING I or all peoples it is the English that have most thoroughly mastered the diffLmAt art of liviitg. Your foreigner is either a town bird or a provincial, a backwoodsman or a bouievardier; while it is the Englishman's crowning dream and merit to be neither. If he can afford it-axid he works mainly to that eudbe has a plause of some sort in the country a.nd a pla.oe of another sort in town. Ia England this dual habitation sfpells eae- omg. Everyone who is anyone inherits it, tries for it. or manages somehow to acquire it-& Buckingham Palace in town, a Sandring- ham in the country. To be free of either world, the rural and the urban, is to double one's faculties, oimcst te double one's life. The Englishman has made this discovery; it is his greatest contribution to civilisation and the aats.-The "Graphic."

THE REVIVAL REVERSING I I notice a great change in the dancing 0( the young men and women of the present day. I regret to see the return of reversing and the Kensington crawl. The Deux Temps has disappeared, and even at the smartest dances the gilded youth ie poshing his partner aboet as though she were a perambu- lator, and reversing every two seconds. Four or five years ago it was considered the 8.Ot:$tf of bad form to reverse UBteas to avoid a colliaion-a,nd valsiog with ant lifting tihe feet from the floor was supposed to belong to the suburbs.—The "Bystander."

PAID FOR WAITING Judgment for the defendants, with costs, was given in the Soutbend County-court to day in an action brought against the South- end Corporation by a labourer, supported by the National Union of Gos Workers and; General Labourers, who olaimed Is. 7id., representing three bows and a half occupied in waiting for wages for clearing snow from the streeta on January 1. For the defence, it was stated that the delay in payment of the rmon was caused by a. disturbance among the gang. Appeal yas allowed.

I 3.000 ILLEGAL MARRIAGES NEW YORK. Saturday. A remarkable and distinctly em'barraseing situation for a number off young compiles has been created by a decision given yesterday in the Appelate Court, which will render about 3,000 marriages illegal providing this decisioh is not upset in the higher courts. The ruling is based upon the marriage of minors being invalid even with the consent of the parents. --Central News.

MARCHIONESS IN COLLISION I A collision occurred tin tbe River Avon, near Bristol, 1;)¿¡t evening, between the Cardiff passenger steamer Marchioness and the steamship Achilles, of Glasgow. The Mar- ohionees was proceeding tap the river and the Achilles was owtvwwd bound for Bordeaux. "Beth steamers received slight damage, but continued on their voyage. The accident will not interfere with the daily service of the Marchioness.

r YOUNG GIRL'S ROMANCE f At the Birmingham Assises to-day a girl, named Doris Brett, was charged with obtain- ing L100 by false pretences from her mother. It was stated the young woman acted under the influence of a young man, who took her to Liverpool, and, ha-ving obtained. her money, went to America. He is wanted on the charge of shooting his oweetbomrt. and his recognisances and those of his sureties were estreated. BrotA was bound over.

NEW SOLICITOR-GENERAL I Mr. Buitm Isaacs, KiC, the onwly-a^painibed Solicitor-Geaneral in the place of Sr 8. T. Evans, promoted to the Presidency 01 the Pro-bate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, was returned urtopposed for Beading to-day.

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The fiaiisia Street. ——'—— -.w — I I am a proud man this day! I have been informed that at the meeting of the Cardiff Tramways Committee yesterday Mr. Arthur ElliB, the able manager, was able to not only produce most flattering figures for the rainy month of February, but that he concluded with a triumphant note to the Pressmen present to convey the joyful news to The Man in the Street," with his compliments. I am genuinely glad to he able to congratulate Mr. Ellis upon the increase in the receipts of L619 for the month of February, on carrying 56,068 more passengers, and on a decrease of 4,508 miles. I have never prayed for the failure of the tramways, not even to support any argument I may have made at any time. I should like to see the concern made a prosperous one, aad if this sueceae continues no one will be more pleased than the mild critic to whom the manager specially sends his compliments. At the same time, I sin- cerely t-rtot that this is no nash in the pan. There ought to be a natural increase in any event under any circum- stance, with new or old fares. But, even though the corporation trams may suffer, I trust that in all the year before us we shall not have anything like such a wet month as February, with its solitary fine day—or two at the most. January was not much better. I send my best wishes to Mr. Ellis, and hope the receipts and the passengers will leap up even higher than the rates, though I scarcely dare hope that the tramways and electric light concerns are going to help relieve the rates for some years to come. But good luck never comes singly—it generally arrives in showers. And on the same day that I get a verbal message of compliments from Mr. Ellis—for whom I have the utmost respect—I am also blessed with a personal letter. This missive contains a cutting from the Tramway Journal," and, as there are several columns of matter to be glanced through, if not digested, and as there are other matters to be dealt with beside the expresses which dash at such alarming speed about the streets of Cardiff, I will try and deal with it another day. This article, Mr. Ellis reminds me, shows "that even in Glasgow, where they coin money, the halfpenny fare is not popular from a financial standpoint." For the present the statement can be allowed to rest there, though I may, perhaps, be allowed to retain the opinion that straightforward halfpenny fares are certainly to be pre- ferred to the mottled, striped, or spotted twpenny system known as the transfer ticket, for which you pay a penny, and with which you may have a second and gratuitous ride if you have learned the way to use it. My compli- ments to Mr. Ellis, to whom I hope shortly to return, and my congratula- tions, with the fervent hope that even in fine weather his figures may prove as flattering as during the storms of January and February. The mere question of justice remains where it was. Last week was a specially triumphant one for Mr. Ellis and his committee, and the barest justice demands that atten- tion should be directed to it. The increase in passengers was 33,994, very fine figures, and to use the manager's • own words, Receipts to date are up £ 2,770." I am too modest to claim that my criticisms of the committee's policy have had any effect in the way of prodding the members to a more zealous discharge of their duties, but observers of this department of the corporatien have been able to see a change for the better. There are other ways in which reform is possible—I hope to refer to them as time goes on—and I trust that whatever I may have to, say is to the sole desire that the city and the public -may benefit. Even if, as Mr. Ellis claims, the committee have got over the difficulty presented by the "abstainers," many of whom are apparently changing back from walkers" to "riders," it does not do away with the fact that by changing the fares at this late hour in the day the committee practically put up the rents of people who are unable to bear the burden. The change makes no difference to me, but hosts of workers who now have to walk or pay more feel the extra demand on their pockets a most serious one. One may search the realms of fiction in vain to find anything approaching in dramatic horror the disaster which suddenly overtook the unsuspecting people at dydach Vale ye&teijay by the bursting of a dam. The catastrophe was c-he .more horrible because most of the victime were children. One can scarcely realise the terror and the panic which might have sacrificed hundreds of more precious little lives if a great deal had not been done by the teachers in charge to avert the greater calamity. The tale of yesterday's devastating flood, unloosed like an all-devouring demon from the mountain side, must always include the heroio deeds of those brave men and women who set themselves to save the threatened little ones. It is another chapter in the romance of South Wales- a romance, alas! that seems never to l?e quite finished. These disasters among our beautiful mountains and valleys are all too frequent, and, though greatly deplored, they scarcely ever come in the nature of a surprise. Those who went through the heart- rending scenes will have them impressed on their memories so long as life lasts. Again the colliers of South Wales dis- played the stuff they were made of, and the qualities which have won football matches and athletic prizes for the Prin- cipality were put into good use on behalf of humanity. All hearts go out to the bereaved who were so cruelly robbed of loved ones, and an entire district has been thrown into mourning. Besides the ladies employed as teachers at the school, the women of the neighbourhood rose to the awful occasion like national heroines, and through all Wales has a lot to be proud of in this sad affair, as well as a great deal to deplore. One pathetic tale is attached to the death of nine-year-old Blodwen Davies. It is said that the little one was anxious to stop at home yester- day afternoon. But to school she went, and now her fittle life has gone out long before a quarter of the natural term of existence had been spent. Incidents like this bring home the disaster as a terrible reality, and it is to be hoped that those who have suffered and lost will be.em- pensated income way for their awful mis- pjxitma.

RHONDDA DAM BURSTS RAGING TORRENT OF WATER SWEEPS DOWN THE HILLSIDE I SCHOOLS INUNDATED SIX LIVES LOST. ELEVEN HOUSES WBECKED PLUCKY RESCUES BY TEACHERS & MINERS Pathetic Incidents: Scenes of Desolation. The EhoruMa dam disaster (reported in ow I Pink Editions last night) bae resulted in the loss of six lives, little Gertie Rees being die- covered this morning and added to the poll of the dead prevkxuely reported. Fortai- i nately, the more gloomy azt".pations of a still heavier death-roll, which were owpesit last evenmg, Ira-ve proved unfounded. The naanes of the victims are as foUow: Enid Howells, aged six, of 64, Wern-poad, daughter of Mr. John Howells, cashier at the colliery, died from shock after being rescued from the seboolyard and taken home. Blodwen Davies, aged nine, of Howard's- terrace, daughter of Mr. Morgan Davies, overman at tie colliery, drowned. j Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Williams, aced 34, wife of Evan Williams, of 9, Adam-terraoe, J and her infant child, aged four months. j A VIEW OF THE FLOODED STREET. THE OOLLAPSE OF A HOUSE. THE ROOF IS SEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TORRENT. I CBOWDS WATCHING THE TORRENT.  Photos. It "dd, Tonyp?ody. Infant daughter of Mr. T. R. Brindle, collier, Adams-terrace, died from shock, after being rescued and temporarily gesnaoitoted. II, Gertrude Bees, aged four, dMtglrier, of Thomas Bees, iforien-streat. The Rush of Death. The dnmrter waa am xuexpeow as tt wm terrible. The level had not been worked for MMMj'M? and It mm IIIHWII Hit » HBMiMVr [of water had acetumriated there. Messrs. Pugh and Thomas, contractors, were at work, it is said, with the object of diverting it to an adjoining stream. Without warning there was a terrific flood, apalling in its consequences. It swept along with terrifying rapidity, and undermined several houses in Adam-street, crumbling them like a pack of cards. On the opposite side of the main road are the village schools, and there at the moment were no fewer than 900 children, boys and infanta. 1ú. B. B. Williams, the headmaster, raw too approaching danger, and at once did what he coald to allay fear and prevent panic. The lady tgaoharw also kept cool under the circumstances, for in a moment the avalanche earns and dealt destruction. Th# wall of the j infants' school was swept away, and this, peculiarly enough, was a luoky happening, the stream thus being diverted to the oolliery lane. Kr. D. Sees, senior assistant, succeeded in getting oot ail the eider children. The good gained in velocity aw it went down the BLun- clydach Kill, entirely stopping all traffic, and it is astounding how huge boulders were toned about by the torrent. In tbm infants' school the seems baffled deeanftMn. ftin ■—rtwr £ «atog sUwwt 4ft. deep, and desks and other furniture were actually floating about. The two mistresses acted with great presence of mind, carrying child after child to places of safety. Numerous colliers were at the time return- ing from work, and, with the bravery and promptitude which characterises the Welsh miner, they put in heroic servioe. They procured planks of wood and ladders, and (managed to get into the children's play- ground. By this means they then olamered over the walls, dived into the water, and hamded the children over as best they could. The children were conveyed to a side room. Sliss Hughes and the rest of the staff took part in this. Naturally, the little ones were terror-stricken, and many of them cried piteously. Mr. Robert R. Williams, the head- master, and Mrs. Colville, the maistress of the staff, did everything possible to calm their fears and prevent panic, but, despite the efforts of all, one of the children, Blodwen Davies, aged nine, was drowned, and another, Enid Howells, aged six. died from shock after being conveyed to her home. The formal- was carried away by the torrent after the collapse of thool boundary-wall. Bepo^y-ohief-ooinstable Ode immediately drove to the scene of the occurrence and drafted a. large number of constables under the charge of Inspector Hole so as to render assistance. A feature of the happening was the remarkable pluck of the women of the village, who waded into the water to save life and belongings. Miraculous esoapes are recorded, and there were many acts of gallantry. 900 CHILDREN IN PERIL I The Headmaster's Graphic Story 1 Mr. R. R. Williams, headmaster of tihe dydach Vale Schools, in which were 900 chil- dren at tbe ttme of the disaster, driscmsting the accident, stated thast shortly before four ooltookhoe happened to be in No. 1 Class- voom when the saw a rushing stream of water coming down between Saron Ghapel and Dr. Gabe Jones's house. He immediately saw that the old level, of which they bad been suspicious for some time, bad burst. Withomt leas of time, he sere instructions to desmies the boys, whilst he rushed out to open the gtate leading from the girls' amd rrifaauts' yards into the boys' yard. It was intended that this should be the means of escape for the whole of the children, but no sooner had 60 or 60 boys got away in this way thiam a tremendous volume of water presented itself, with the result that this means of escape was cut off. When Mr. Willi aims got into the girls' school he found that the water was .rushing full strength through the main corridor of the school into the yard. The infants' department Wa6 even worse. Thris was ooropAetedy inuedubed, and the obodem were being tossed about in all iirectiona. Soon after this the top wall of the yard of the girls' school gave way with a tremendous crash owing to the fomoe of water. Thus all possible means of escape were cut off, and the owdrou were fboofte ataoatt to dbe watw, ) No ward of praise could adequately express the coamnentdaAion due to the zmsbreases for the ooolness they displayed in tihe face of a position which threatened great danger. The torrent foireed its way into the infante' school, and soon reached a height of four or Ave feet. It was impossible to get out all the children through the main entranoe, and a. number were handed over the playground wall into a lane, which afforded a safe passage to the higher grounds. Mir. Williams, speaking of the bra/very of the teachers, Laid Miss Colville was the means of saving many children at great per- sonal risk, and was completely exhausted when her heroic work was finished. He aJso sipoke in high terms of the ool- liers, some of Whom waded waist deep in the rushing torrent, and said but for their assistance a terrible loss of life would hanre resudfted. Many of the children were passed through the windows by teachers to miners, I who had placed Ladders against the building. Fell Like Pack of Cards I Adams-terrace, however, stood right in the track of the avalanche, and the very first house encountered was in a moment com- pletely wrecked like a pack of cards, and the occupants, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Williams and her infant child, perished. The body of Williams was washed into a partially-erected house on the opposite side of the street, and she waa found cling- ing to the door, whale her child lay dead a foot or two away. Altogether eleven houses and a shoemaker's shop were wrecked, one being completely washed away. Furniture was scattered like skittles in all directions, and the streets were literally strewn with the belongings of the unfortunate inhabitants, who had rushed pell-mell for their lives to places of safety, all being thoroughly bewildered by the unexpected visitation. Children Floating Like Corks But for the timely assistance rendered by the colliers coming from work it is very evident that the loss of life would have been considerably heavier. The mighty torrent of water swept down by the schools with such rapidity that, despite the heroic efforts made by the teachers to clear the school of the ohildren, the latter were hurled in all directions, and were soon floating about the playground like so many corks. The oolliers dashed into the water and reoovered child after child, handing each one over the boundary walls to the willing hands which were ready to receive them on the other side. Police-constable Thorburn him- self rescued over six little girls from what Ii was imminent death. Too much praise cannot be given to the teaching staff for the splendid presence of mind which they displayed when the disaster overcame them. The two departments which buffered, most were the infants' and the gLrW. Miss Hughes, the assistant-mistress in the infants' department, happened to be in the playground at the time, and directly she noticed the water flooding around her she dashed into the school, and told the children to get on the desks Mr. Rees, the assistant- master, giving a similar order. I Mother and Babe Rescued The experiences which befell Mrs. John, wife of the Rev. S. B. John, Baptist minister, Rhondda View, was of a most trying charac- ter. Mrs. John had given birth to a child on Friday, and the torrent dashed with frightful force against the house, causing it to be in imminent danger of collapse. To those who knew the circumstances it was exceedingly painful to think of what might momentarily happen, but, wading through the huge stream in a daring manner, Mr. D. W. Jones effected an entrance into the house, and, with assistance, succeeded in conveying the invalid and her babe to a place of safety. Torn from Father's Grasp The most pathetic incident was the death of the infant Brindle. MT. T. R. Brindle, a miner, was walking atlong the foot of the hill nea.r the schools with, his child in biJ8 arms, when, without any warning, be wias isuddenly overtaken by flood waiter, "hdiCh eweipit past him in roaming torrent, and to avoid being carried off Ihit; feet, he clutched at a wall. In doing so, the chud fell from his arms and was carried away a distance of about 100 yards, when it was rescued by a Mr. Harris. On being conveyed to a neigh- j bouring house the unfortunate child succumbed. A pathetic episode concerns the recovery ctf tihe body of Blodwen Dtavies. When the child was found among the debris, Mrs. Davies exclaimed: "What a fine child; I wonder whose it is." On her return home she discovered the dead 'body was that of fher own daughter. A further touching incident is related of Blodwen Davies. It is stated that she was particularly anxious to stay away from school on Friday afternoon,- but was per- suaded to go in order not to break her attendance. Mrs. Davies, the mother, was in the village when the body was taken home, quite unconscious of her sudden bereavement, and a friend gently hinted to her that she was wanted at the hou--e. The water had stripped the body of nearly all the clothing. The deceased was a niece of Mr. Frank James, Clydach Vale Hotel. CAUSE OF THE DISASTER Burst Dam Lets Loose a Torrent The cause of the disaster was the bursting of an old disused level high up the hillside at Olyda.ch Vale. It is six years since there was any work at this level, with the result that it had become filled with water like a cistern, with a resulting huge accumulation of water. For some time past percolations of water gave rise to some apprehension, it being known that inside the old workings it must have formed a collect- ing ground for a, huge reservoir. This ominous sign was taken note of, with the result that the residents in the immediate vicinity had been apprised of a possible bursting of the natural dam and an overflow of the water into the streets. Operations were, consequently, com- menced with a view to averting any such calamitous contingency, end it was during the course of this work of tapping the reser- voir that the wall of the cavity formed by the extraction of the seam of coal suddenly gave way. Near the spot where the burst occurred building operations were in progress, and it was at the suggestion of the contractors, Messrs. Pugh and Thomas, that it was thought desirable that something should be done in the direction of emptying the accumulated water. It was about four o'olock that the men realised the danger of the situation. The mountainside seemed to give way as though from a volcanic eruption, and, according to an eye-witness, a torrent of water, together with masses of earth and stone, swept down the hillside with fearful force, carrying everything before it in its mad and swift career. Along this precipitous declivity the terrible volume, which it is no exaggeration to say comprised millions and millions of gallons and thousands of tons of earth and stone, demolished every obstacle that stood up in its path. The inrush followed the natural conformation of the surface ground, and its course was in the direction partially crosBways to the residential portion of the village. The immensity of the released water might be further realised by the statement that the Stiver Rhondda, into which the water eventu- ally worked its way. presented the appear- ance of heavy floods, and its yellowish hue indicated the huge mass of subsoil it carried with it. As a sad coincidence it may be re-called that the hurt disaster in the village was the terrible explosion at the Cambrian Oolliery exaebly fire years ago. Extent Of The Damage I It ia difficult to estimate the extent of the j damage by this terrible visitation, the like ol winch ia unprecedented in the history of 11 the Rhondda. It was really pitiful to watafc the homeless people wandering. about the soene of the accident late on Friday night. Several houses have been completely swept away with all their contents, and all the poor inhabitants had to do was to rely on the charity of neighbours in the low-lying district of Tonypandy for shelter for the right. In Adams' -street six houses have been com- pletely wrecked, one of them being abec). lutely washed away. The others are rea. dered utterly uninhabitable. Five houses in Rhondd.a View were also wrecked, one being entirely washed away. A shoemaker's shop in Wern-road was like. wise washed away. Considerable damage has also been done to other property in Wern-street and at the top of Clydach-road. It is estimated that there was about 11 mile of accumulated water in the old level at the time it burst. It is rather fortunate that the disaster occurred during the daytime, otherwise it is difficult to estimate what damage-might have been done. The force of the water having carried the boundary walls completely on to the Tag Vale Railway underneath, traffic for the time being has been rendered impracticable. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ? Darter in the evening a special meeting of the Rhondd-a Council was held, at which the following official report wa,s handed to thr press by Mr. W. P. Nicholas, the olerk:- After inspecting the scene of the disaster the council passed a vote of condolence with the bereaved relatives, and instructed the clerk to retain the services of an expert to visit the scene of the disaster and report fully thereon to the council with the view of proceedings being taken for the recovery of damages. The clerk WM instructed to take such steps as may be necessary for the council to be reprei sented at the inquest. Mr. Nicholas, in a conversation with an Evening Express" representative, further wished to make it clear that his council have no jurisdiction over the levels, which. he stated, were private properties, the same as colliery undertakings, so far as the council was concerned. The council became acquainted with the fact that streams of water were coming out of the workings and causing a, good deal of uneasiness, and they, called upon the estate agents to take some steps in the matter. Some correspondence ensued, and as a result of the council's com- munication with them the agents afterwards took steps to have the accumulation of water removed. So far as the colliery management are con- cerned, we have been as-ked to state that Mr. Leonard Llewelyn has deeply interested himself in the matter for the past four months, and that he had drawn the atten- tion of the district council to the danger which threatened. Mr. Llewelyn had himself visited the spot and measured the depth of the water on different occasions. [For To-day's iNews of tihe Disaster See Page 3.]

LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S ORDEAL NEW YORK, Saturday. A rerr.e rkable story of the privations endured by a lighthouse keeper has just come to light. It app-ears that the keeper of the Norwalk Lighthouse in Long Island Sound, owing to the stormy weather, could not be provided with the usual supplies, while his assistant at the beginning of the month failed to put in an appearance. The keeper decided to do the work alone, but supplies ra,n short, and when at last the lighthouse was visited yesterday, the unfor. tunate man was found in a condition bor- dering upon starvation, Tuo only food for several days having been dog biscuits. He is now in a state of collapse, and an inquiry is being held by the lighthouse boards into the circumstances of the affair.—Central News.

WIDOW SELLS HER HAIR A pathetio story of a young widow's struggles against poverty has been told at Pittsburg, lire. Beaeie Anderson had three young children, and, always refusing to accept charity, struggled on to the point of starva.lion. At last sho hit upon the novel pLan of selling' her hair. She went to one of the mte't ictslaionable snaps in the city and made the offer. "I must sell it," she said, "or I and my ohildren will starve to death. The rent is not paid, and there ia not a. crumb of bread in the house. The hairdresser was astonished at the woman's wealth of hair, and offered her L10 for it. which was at once accepted.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW Appearing at West London Court yesterday ..tIn;. Henrietta Barbara Brock ins ton, licensee of the Waldo Arms, College Park, Willesdcn Junction, was fined JL33 and £2 16s. costs lor diluting beer. Mr. Simpson, for the Inland Revenue, stated that samples taken shewed I that the dilution was at the rate of 9J gallons of water to a W-allon barrel of ale, ar.d eight gallons of water to a 36-gallon barrel of stout. IU.r. Forctham: So much the better for the people who drink it. Mr. Simp- son: We regard it from the revenue point of view.

SAVING PRISONER'S HANDS After a billiard instructor named Arthur Smythe had been found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday of conspiring to obtain money with intent to defraud. Judge Lumley Smith asked what effect ha.rd labour would have on the prisoner's hands for billiard playing. Mr. Purcell, for the defence, urged that justice would be met if the prisoner were bound over. Judge Lumley Smith: I can not pass it over. He must go to prison for four months. If he be-hilves he will set off one month, and as the work might inj ure his hands the sentence will be in the second division without hard labour.

SUSPICIOUS POLICEMAN i Charged with being a deserter from his Majesty's ship Cochrane, Sydney S.ambrook (22) was at Cardiff to-day reman-ded for a week. Police-constable William Davies sa.id he was on duty at Penarth-road last night, when he accosted Sambrook, and stated that he should take him to the police-station on suspicion of baing a deserter from his Majesty's ship Cochrane at Portsmouth on December 21.

THE SHARP WIT Oh, dear" exclaimed the young lady who was being taken to a concert by a rather backward wooer; "I'm sure we shall miss tfia opening number. We've waited a good many minutes for that mother of mine." "Hours, I should say," growled the young man. "Oyre? Oh, George! how nice of you to say so at last," cried the sharp-witted girl, as she summoned up an appropriate blush.

t "A STEP TOO FAR." Charged at Cardiff Police-court to-day with living on the earnings o,f a woman, Robert Brown (29) was committed to the quarter sessions for sentence. Mr. J. Munn, the pre- siding magistrate, addressing the prisoner, said: "You have gone a step too far for us to deal with you here." Detective PugsJey stated that Brown had only worked two days since November last, and Inspector Bingham proved several previous convictions.

"RATHER GO TO GAOL" "I would Tather go to gaol than break stones." This was the answer of Thomas King (30) when spoken to by the labour master of the Cardiff Workhouse, who found him throwing the stones out of a window. King, who was charged to-day at Cardiff Police-court with refusing to perform his allotted task, was remanded for a week.

DEATH OF AN IRISH M.P. A Dublin correspondent telegraphs that Mr. James O'Oonnor, M.P. for West Wicklow. died at Kingstown to-day. The deceased, a Nationalist, was returned without opposition at the general election.

DIED SUDDENLY, A verdict of "Death from cardic failure, following chronic Bright's disease," was returned to-day at the inquest upon Samuel Kemp Twiney (54), shoemaker, of 57. Cyfarthfa-street, Cardiff, who died suddenly on Thursday.

PARK-HALL SERVICES The address to-morrow afternoon Is to be given by the Rev. E. C. Barton, of gpiott- roed Wesleyan Church, and Mr. J. Glemelg Giwt will occupy the chair. The Cardiff Blue Ribbon Choir will render the anthems.

"LINBIm OOKPOuND" with vun Is so ) I