NORWEGIAN TRAGEDY.
GREAT DEVASTATION. OSLO, SepC 13. Amid widespread devastation, 74 persons, including 30 children, were killed and 13 injured as a result of the huge landslide on Raven Mountain. The mass which fell into the lake was 2500 feet high and 1000 feet wide. The flood waves hurled injured people 300 yards and wrecked everything for a mile inland from Bodal, including An electricity station and sawmills.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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68NORWEGIAN TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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