SCENE OF AVALANCHE
NORWAY LAKE REGION EFFECTS OF TIDAL WAVE (Received September 16, 1.15 a.m.) Times Cable LONDON, Sept. 1,5 A correspondent of the Times at Oslo who flew over the scene of the Lake Loen avalanche describes it as follows The onci! huge timber-covered promontory was cut bare as if by a knifo. The severity of the tidal wave which followed t!le landslide is shown by the fact that a small lake steamer was wrenched from its anchorage and deposited 300 feet above water-level, while another steamer which was stranded in the avalanche of 1905 was carried 150 yards farther inland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22525, 16 September 1936, Page 13
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