HUGE LANDSLIDE IN NORWAY
Over 70 Persons Killed GREAT WAVES DESTROY VILLAGES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrlgtu, September 14, 8.20 p.m.) Oslo, September 13 Amid widespread devastation. 74 persons including 30 children were killed and 13 injured as a result of a huge landslide on Raven Mountain, 6000 feet high, overhanging Lake Loen, six miles long, in the Nordefjord district of West Norway. The mass which fell into the lake was 2500 feet high and 1000 feet wide. The slide occurred at dawn directly opposite the village of Bodal, and the resultant waves demolished every house except one, killing and mutilat ing the sleeping inmates, laying waste farms, sinking boats, and destroying bridges. Only three houses remain in the lakeside village of Nesdal. Flood waves hurled injured people 300 yards and wrecked everything for a mile inland from Bodal, Including an electricity station and sawmills. The bodies of two dwellers in a house on a hillside two miles distant were recovered in a river flowing into the lake. The pavilion at Kjohdal Glacier was demolished. The damage IS estimated at £36,000. Medical' aid has been dispatched by air from Bergen and by a ship from Oslo.
Sixty persons were killed in a similar disaster in 1905.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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204HUGE LANDSLIDE IN NORWAY Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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