DISASTER THREATENED
LONDON, June 5. The Rossberg Mountain, near Schwyz, in Switzerland, whose western face fell, totally burying 500 villagers at Goldau, on September 2, 1806, threatens, as the result of a recent earthquake, to lose its eastern face. An earth avalanche measuring 1,000,000 cubic yards is advancing. Several villages have -been evacuated.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 19
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