FLAMES AND SNOW
FOLLOW LANDSLIDE.
Strange Sequel to Tragedy on
Japanese Mountain.
300 RESCUERS LOSE LIVES.
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received 12.30 p.m.) TOKYO, November 12. It is believed that 300 people perished and that 14,000 are homeless as a result of a landslide on Komenashiyama mountain (5000 ft), in the Nagato prefecture. At least 50 children were buried alive. Three hundred miners were burned to death during rescue efforts. Others were unable to face the fumes. In all 150 miners escaped unscathed.
The landslide is attributed to an ex plosion in a magazine on the mountain side.
Fifteen hundred firemen are .fiorhting the flames knee deep in snow, mud and rocks amid an incessant fall of snow. Their task is the more difficult owing to explosions igniting heaps of sulphur.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 9
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