AWFUL AVALANCHE.
Crash Of Enormous Mass Of Rock And Earth. KANT HOMES BUSIED. (Australian and N.Z. Presa Association.) LONDON, October 3. A message from Berne, Switzerland, states that a great avalanche crashed into the Arbedo Valley from Monte Arbino. It was accompanied by a noise like that of thunder. Twenty chalets (Swiss cottages) were buried beneath the falling rocks. The number of victim* is not known. Many of the inhabitants of the villages had departed recently as a result of warnings received.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 7
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82AWFUL AVALANCHE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 7
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