HUGE LANDSLIDE
NORWEGIAN DISASTER
WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION
DEATH ROLL OF 50,,
United Press Association— By Electric Tel«graph— Copyright. (Received September 14, 10.40 a.m.) OSLO, September 13. ■ Amid widespread devastation, 50 persons were killed and 60 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, j The slide occurred at dawn directly opposite the village of Bodal, and the resultant waves demolished ■ every house except one, killing and mutilating the sleeping inmates, laying waste farms, sinking boats, and destroying bridges. Only three houses remain in the lakeside village of Nesdal.
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 Kjondal Glacier was demolished.
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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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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161HUGE LANDSLIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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