FLATS SWEPT INTO NEARBY RIVER BY VAST LANDSLIDE
“STOCKHOLM, Sept. 29 (Rec. 10.5 a.m.). —A landslide today swept 40 blocks of flats in the industrial village of Suate, near Gothenburg, a distance of nearly 100 yards into the Goeta river. At least one person was killed. Twenty were injured and a number of others believed to be buried in the wreckage. Heavy rain caused the clay subsoil to slither into the river, dragging the three-storey buildings with it. Housewives cooking breakfast screamed as flats began to move towards the river. Some of the flats caved in, others fell on their sides, and some remained tilting drunkenly over the swollen river. The person killed was a 50-year-old woman, who was buried in her cellar, where she had taken refuge when the building began to sway.
Five hundred persons lived in the flats and a check is being made to account for them all. The thousands of tons of clay which slipped into the river Goeta was blocking it, bringing all shipping to a standstill. The landslide swept away the village railway station, burying it so that only the roof was visible. Firemen hacked through the stones and rubble to rescue the stationmaster. About 250 yards of railway track and 750 yards of road disappeared.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1950, Page 5
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