FIORD DISASTER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 April 1934, Page 5

FIORD DISASTER

HUGE CRAG FALLS TIDAL WAVES FOLLOW VILLAGES OVERWHELMED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) OSLO, 7th April. Forty people including a family of nine, were killed when a huge crag crashed into Korsnoes fiord, creating three tidal waves, sweeping inland half a mile. Two small fishing villages were overwhelmed, and the ground is littered with the debris of houses and boats. . It is feared that other villages have also been destroyed. OSLO, 3th April. It is believed there are over fifty dead in the Korsnoes fiord catastrophe. Forty bodies have been recovered in Hie village of Tajford. There are only seven survivors in the village of Fjoeraa. The crag 101 l six thousand feet, causing scenes so terrible that eye-witnesses declared they believed the Day of Judgment had arrived. Thirty-foot waves hurled motor boats and other vessels against houses, many occupants being entrapped in the wreckage. There was a great column of flame when the waves reached an electricity transformer. A mother with her three children :n her arms climbed through a window on to the roof, but the rising waters swept them away. The father, carrying ins son, rati up a little hill and held the boy up at arms length until he was sunmerged. The child was saved halfdrowned. Residents dragged boats across <’i,untry and rowed in the darkness searching for survivors. The waters subsided within twenty five minutes. The disaster is the worst in Norway foi* twenty years.