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WELSH SCHOOL HERO RECEIVES THE CIVILIANS "V.c.1 CLYDACH VALE DISASTER RECALLED. A thrilling deed of heroism was described in Friday night's official "London Gazette," which announced that the King has con- ferred the Albert Medal of the fcecond Class on Mr. Robert Ralph Williams, head master I of the Clydach Vale Schools. This is how Mr. Williams won the medal. as told in the usually prosaic pages df the Gazette On March 11th. 1910. Mr. Williams noticed a large volume of water rushing down to- wards his school—a dam having burst on the mountain sl d,&and realising that the girls' and infants' departments of the school weret in great danger, he at once gave instructions for the boys to be dismissed, and rushed to give warning to the other departments, but not before the approach to the front of these h<>ois was entirely cut off by an immense Volume of water. His only roii.o was through a doorway be- tween the playground of the two depart- ments. He unlocked this door and shouted to the children playing in the yard to make their escape to the boys' school yard. and one class escaped in this way. Mr. Williams then went to the infants' department, having to wade through a cur- rent up to his armpits. He satisfied himself that there was no imminent danger provided the walls of the girls' school could with- stand the force of the water, and decided to take the girls to a slope near the back en- trance of their school; but he found that the volume of "water had greatly increased, and had burst in the front door and broken the lower parts of the windows. He succeeded, however, in entering the school and finally got n,II the children out safely, although the water inside the build- ing was now fully four feet, six inches in depth. While the last of the children were being rescued, a wall 18 vf>rds Ion si. 10 feet high. and 2 feet 3 inches thick, wheh had formed a partial breakwater, was swept away, and the increased rush of water carried Mr. Wil- liams out of the building, down a flight of step steps, where he was severely bruised and narrow!v escaped drowning. At the bottom of the steps he found about 20 girls struggling in six feet- of water, and these he assisted to safety in the infants' schoolyard. In the meantime. Mrs. Colville. an assist- ant teacher, and her class were caught in another corner of the yard, bounded by a I hich wall. which met thn full force of the flood. She and t 11>' children were being whirled round bv the torrent, but all were vi1 ed bv ATr X^1 who. with >1 child in his arms, caught Mrs. Colville as she was sinking and being carried away. Valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. Matthew Lewis and other members of the school staff. The flood was snorted in the newspapers nt the time. but the drama of the Clydach Vale Schools, as now fully disclosed, is worthy of preservation.

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