Cliff Face Crashed On Canadian Town
! (Received I p.m.) f VANCOUVER, January 24. | " A midnight dance at a nearby I < town, attended by most of the 100 | , residents of the mining town of | ' Hedley, British Columbia, saved | scores of lives when 1000 feet of | I ovei hanging cliff crashed down, • | engulfing nine (houses. I Trapped asleep, Mr . Peter I Strand and his housekeeper, | ! Johanna Green, were killed, and t , 23 others, including 11 children, | aroused by the roar of the falling | cliff, fled to safety in their night | ! attire. | The merrymakers returned an | ; hour afterwards and found their i homes buried. :
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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101Cliff Face Crashed On Canadian Town Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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