HUGE LANDSLIDE BURIES STOCK.
FARM EMPLOYEE HAD LUCKY ESCAPE.
Per Press Association. GISBORNE, August 20. A landslide, sixty acres in extent, in the Te Aral Valley, gave a startling experience to Claud Gordon, who
was working sheep on it. Gordon had to dismount from his horse, and he had walked about a hundred yards, when what he described as a wave of earth broke over him. He was carried downwards, nearly choked by dry clay, and was struggling to keep his feet. With a desperate effort be managed to reach the side of the slide and, falling over a small cliff, he got on stable ground, reaching home much bruised .and battered and in a state of collapse. The land o nwhich he had left his horse, and another horse, ha dcompletely disappeared. Some hours after the upheaval subsided the horses were discovered partly embedded. It is doubtful whether they can be rescued. Sixty sheep and seven cattle were also buried in the slip beneath thousands of tons of earth. The Rae River is dammed about thirty chains.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18545, 20 August 1928, Page 8
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