HUGE LANDSLIDE
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION. _ J rean Association Electric TelegraDh—Copyrighl (Received Monday, 10.20 a.m.) OSLO, Sunday. Amid widespread devastation, fifty persons were, killed and sixty injured, as the result of a huge landslide on Mt. Raven, 6000 feet high, overhanging Lake Loen, which is six miles long, in the Wordfjord district of West Norway. The slide occurred at dawn, directly opposite Bodal village. The resultant waves demolished every house but one, killing or mutilating the sleeping inmates and laying waste to farms, sinking boats and destroying bridges. Only three houses remain in. the lakeside village of Nesdal. The bodies of two dwellers in a house on the hillside two miles distant were recovered.
A river, flowing in to the lake pavilion at Kjondal Glacier, demolished it. A river, flowing in to Lake Pavilion at Kjondal Glacier, was demolished it. Medical aid was despatched by air from Bergen and by a ship from Oslo. Aj similar disaster killed sixty in 1905.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 5
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