NORWEGIAN DISASTER
AVALANCHE HAVOC SCENE FROM THE AIR LONDON, Sept. 15. The Oslo correspondent of the Times, flying over the scene rif the avalanche on the shores of Lake Loen, involving the loss of over 70 lives, describes the promontory, once covered with huge timber, as cut bare as if by a knife. The severity of the tidal wave is shown by the fact that a small lake steamer was wrenched from its. anchorage, and deposited 300 ft. above water level, while another steamer, stranded in 1905, the avalanche carried 150 yards further inland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 5
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94NORWEGIAN DISASTER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 5
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