A HUGE LANDSLIDE.
SIXTY ACRES SLIP DOWNHILL. GISBORNE, August 29. A landslide, CO acres in extent, in Tearai \ alley, gave a startling experience to Claud Gordon, who was working sheep on it. Gordon had dismounted from ins horse and had walked about 100 yards Avncn, wliat Tie descriljed as a wave of earth, broke over him. carried downwards and nearly choked by dry clav Struggling to keep his feet, with a desperate effort he managed to reach the side of the slide, and, falling over a small cliff, got on stable ground, reaching home much bruised and battered, and in a state' of collapse. The land on which he had left his horse and- another horse had completely disappeared. Some hours after the upheaval had subsided the horses were discovered partly, embedded. It'is doubtful whether they can be rescued from the morass. Sixty sheep, and seven Cattle were also buried in the slip,' beneath thousands of tons of earth-. The Rae River is dammed for'about 30 chains. ■ v - :
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Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 60
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168A HUGE LANDSLIDE. Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 60
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