TERRIBLE SIGHT
AVA/LANCHE DESCENDS ON TOWN. COMPLETE BURIAL EXPECTED. (United Press .Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 12.20 p.m.) NICE, March 15. Fourteen hundred villagers have 'arrived here from their homes. They are watching by th e light of bonfires an avalanche which is steadily overwhelming RoquervilHer, which wa s efevastated lin 1926. Slones and mud are pouring down the mountainside, flattening the houses. It is expected the entire village will be buried in twenty-four hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1934, Page 6
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