TERRIBLE SLIDE.
FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED. A VILLAGE WIPED OUT. SLEEPING I-NMATE S FATE. United Press Assn—filer. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 1-1, 11 a. 111.) OSLO, Sept. 13. Amid widespread devastation lifty people were killed 111111 sixty injured as a result of 11 huge lundslide‘ on the Haven Mountain, 0000 feet high, overhanging Lake Lot-11, in the \\‘ordljord district. \\'cst Norway. The slide occurred at dawn. directly opposite the villain.- of Bodal. The resultant waves. demolished every house but one, killing and mutilating the sleeping inmates. laying farms waste. sinking boats. and destroying bridges. only three houses remain in the lakeSlde village of Nesdal. The bodies of two dwellers in a house on the hillside two miles distant have been recovered in a river flowing into the lake. .\ pavilion at Klondal glacier was demolished. Medical aid has been despatched by air from Bergen and by ship from Oslo. A similar disaster killed sixty people in 19031.
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19990, 14 September 1936, Page 7
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155TERRIBLE SLIDE. Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19990, 14 September 1936, Page 7
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