CRASHING GRAB

Northern Advocate, 9 April 1934, Page 5

CRASHING GRAB

FELL 6000 FEET THREE TIDAL WAVES OVER FIFTY LIVES LOST NORWEGIAN DISASTER : (United Press Association—By Electric ! Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) OSLO, April 7. It is feared that more than ,50 people perished, including ’ one family of nine, when a huge crag crashed into Ivorsnaes Fiord, creating three tidal waves which swept inland for half a mile.

Two small fishing villages, Tajiford and Fjoeraa., were and the ground where they stood is littered with the debris of houses and boats, j It is believed that other villages were also destroyed. _ ' . , Forty l.vodies have, been recovered at Tajiford.. There were only, seven survivors at Fjoeraa, The crag fell 0000 feet, causing scenes so terrible that an eye-witness declared ho believed the Day of Judgment had arrived. The tidal waves—3o feet high—hurled motor boats and other vessels against the houses, and many occupants were entrapped by the wreckage. A big column of flame arose when the waves reached an electricity

transformer, A mother with her three children in [ her arms climbed out of a window on to the roof of her homo, but the rising waves swept them off. A father carrying a son ran up a little hill and held the boy up at arm’s length until he was submerged. The child was saved, half drowned. Residents dragged boats across the country and rowed about in the dark searching for survivors. The waters subsided within 25 minutes. The disaster is the worst experienced in Norway for 30 .years.