HAVOC OF AVALANCHE
Huge Promontory Looks as if Cut by Knife (Received September 16, 12.50 a.m.) London, September 15. The Oslo correspondent of “The' Times," after flying over the scene of the Lake Loen avalanche,. in Norway, in which 74 people were killed, describes what was once a huge timbercovered promontory as being cut hare (is if by a knife. The severity' of the tidal wave is shown by the fact that a small lake steamer was wrenched from its anchorage and deposited 300 feet above the water level, while another steamer, stranded in the 1905 avalanche, was carried 150 yards farther inland.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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103HAVOC OF AVALANCHE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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