DISASTROUS LANDSLIPS.
SIERRA NEVADA TERROR. VILLAGES DISAPPEARING. MANY FARMS ENGULFED., By Telegraph Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. MADRID, April 6. The panic-stricken inhabitants of the Granada province, in the vicinity of the Sierra Nevada mountains, are fleeing in fear of enormous landslides, which are descending from the mountain sides, engulfing olive groves, farms and villages. In many places the surface of the ground cracked and opened, swallowing up farms, trees, and cattle. A cablegram published on Saturday stated that one of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada -was bodily moving toward Monachil, Gra-nada. at the rate of three miles an hour. Olive gardens and vine- " yards were engulfed and irrigation channels were destroyed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18679, 8 April 1924, Page 7
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112DISASTROUS LANDSLIPS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18679, 8 April 1924, Page 7
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