CATASTROPHE IN NORWAY.
EXTRAORDINARY MISHAP. 59 PERSONS DROWNED. (By Cable.— Press Association. —Copyrlcttt-t CHRISTIAXIA, January 18. A remarkable disaster has occurred at the Leonvand Lake, near Bergen, in Norway. The fall of an enormous mass of rock into the lake caused a wave 20 feet high, which dashed over the neighbourhood. Fifty-nine persons were drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 20 January 1905, Page 5
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55CATASTROPHE IN NORWAY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 20 January 1905, Page 5
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