HUGE LANDSLIDE
NORWEGIAN DISASTER FIFTY DEATHS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright OSLO, September 13. (Received September 14, at 11 a.m.) Amid widespread devastation 60 persons were killed and 60 injured as the result of a huge landslide from Raven Mountain, 6,000 ft high, overhanging Lake Loen, six miles long, in the Wordfjord district of Western Norway. The slide occurred at dawn, directly opposite Bodal village. The resultant waves demolished every house but one, killing and mutilating the sleeping inmates, laying waste 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 distanct were recovered from the river flowing into the lake. The pavilion at Kjondal Glacier was demolished. v
Medical aid was despatched by air from Bergen and by ship from t)slo. A similar disaster killed 60 people in 1905.
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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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147HUGE LANDSLIDE Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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