FIFTY DEATHS
NORWEGIAN DISASTER. HUGE LANDSLIDE FALLS. VILLAGES WRECKED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 14, 10.20 a.m. OSLO, Sept. 13. Amid widespread devastation 50 were killed and 60 were injured as the result of a huge landslide on Raven Mountain, 6000 ft high, overhanging Lake Loen, six miles in length, in the Wordfjord district of West Norway. The slide occurred at dawn directly opposite Bodal village, and the resultant waves demolished every house but one, killing and mutilating the sleeping inmates, laying to waste the farms, sinking boats, and destroying bridges. Only three houses remain in the lakeside village of Nesdal. The bodies of two dwellers in a bouse on a hillside two miles distant were recovered. A rivur flowing into the lake pavilion at the Kjondal Glacier demolished it.
Medical aid was despatched by air from Bergen and by ship from Oslo. A similar disaster killed sixty in 1905.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 245, 14 September 1936, Page 7
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