1959 UPI Radio Telephoto Ribadelago Vega de Tera Spain dam flood disaster photos

Description: This is a lot of 2 Photos taken following the 1959 Dam burst and flooding of the village, Ribdalago, in Spain. Both photos measure 9" x 7" and have a typed news item attached. Photo 1 news item reads:RADIOTELEPHOTOAFTER THEN DAM BURSTRibadelago, Spain: Rescue workers return to the grim task of wresting bodies from this stricken village. Jan. 1oth, after the town was inundated by a mighty wave of water. A 60-foot high wave smashed into the town, Jan. 9th, when a 100-foot high dam, holding back seven million cubic meters of water burst. At last reports, 142 persons, almost one-third of the village's total population, were believed dead. 1/10/59 Photo 2 reads:IN THE WAKE OF DISASTERRibadalago, Spain: A church bell remains standing amid the wreckage here, Jan. 10th, after this small village was inundated by a mighty wave of water. A 60-foot high wave smashed into the town, Jan. 9th, when a 100-foot high dam, holding back seven million cubic meters of water, burst. At last reports, 142 persons, almost one-third of the village's total population, were believed dead. 1/10/59 The Vega de Tera disaster, (also known as the Ribadelago disaster ) was a flood that occurred on the early morning of 9 January 1959 in the Province of Zamora, Spain. The flood was caused by the failure of a dam, releasing water from the Vega de Tera reservoir. A total of 144 of the 664 residents in Ribadelago were killed. It was the first of two fatal dam failures in Europe that year; in December, the collapse of the Malpasset Dam resulted in over 400 fatalities. Fast, safe and reasonable shipping with tracking.

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