HUGE LANDSLIDE AT LOS ANGELES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 8

HUGE LANDSLIDE AT LOS ANGELES

Millions of Tons Crash Into River Bed MORE FALLS THREATEN (By Telegraph— Pres3 Assn.— Copynzht.; V. -- LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28. ? i >. A landslide whieh three weelcs ago began xnovng at the rate of an inch daily carrying a hillside comprising two city squares and threatening a row of buildings, a highway, a viaduet. and the Los Angeles river-beds to-day rumbled 13$ inches onward and bfidly frightened the neighbouring inhabitants despite £he roping-off of the cndangered district. j Millions of tons of earth and stone' threaten to cover a wido area and to-. day's movement precipitated rocks the' size of autoniobiles, causiag au earth-:' quake-like tremor and eovering many streets with deep maddy slush. | Several movie studios have day and night camera crews posted to film the landslide when it becomes fully loosenfid, which is expected at any lnoment. A later message states that .the entire, hill, estimated at three million tons of debris, finally split off in1 two sections during the night and crashed down eovering the river-side drive, cutting off the electrie power and destroying the water-mains, but stopping at the doorsteps of the endangered buildings. A sheer cliff, 150 feet high, remains where "the hill was torn off from the lerrain. Thousands of spectators viewed the speetacle, which hundreds of police aTe guarding. Crowds during the day watehed rocks, earth, and trees tumbling down the mountainside. Geologists fear a second avalanche ,more serious than the first. The damage so far.is estimated at ,200,000 dollars. A further collapse is virtually certain to destroy a bridge, the cpst of which was 3,000,000 dollars.