DEVASTATING LANDSLIDES
Disaster in eritish west indies
BLANKET CF CLAY OVER LARGE AREA HUNDREDS 0? DEATHS PROBABLE (British Official Wireless.' Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 23. A report from St. Lucia, British West Indies, states that a series of avalanches which caused whole mountains to split up and poured a blanket of wet clay 20ft deep over large areas probably killed hundreds of persons. Already 75 bodies have been recovered. Continuous slides, moving with great rapidity, poured down over villages before the population could escape.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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87DEVASTATING LANDSLIDES Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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