A HUGE LANDSLIDE
LIFE LOST AT OTffi A . Br Telegraph—Press Association. - Chrlstchurch, September 14. Reports from Otira record a hug 6 landslide at 8.15 yesterday, opposite the Public Works stables. The avalanche came down the hill with aloud roar and buried a house, into which a man named. Charles Morris (who had taken his family out when hearing the elide), had gone back to got his coat. Morris and. the house were buried under the huge mass. It was impossible to got tho body out. Morris leaves a wife and daughter. Thera have , also been wash-outs on the railway, but tho tunnel works a*-e intact.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2877, 15 September 1916, Page 4
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105A HUGE LANDSLIDE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2877, 15 September 1916, Page 4
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