HUGE LANDSLIDE
A DISASTER IN NORWAY FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) OSLO, Sept. 13. Amid widespread devastation, 50 persons were killed and 60 injured as the result of a huge landslide from Raven Mountain. 6000 feet high, overhanging Lake Leon, six miles long, in the Wordfjord district of Western Norway. The slide occurred at dawn, directly opposite Bodal village. The i isultant 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 distant were recovered from the river flowing into the lake. The pavilion at Kjondal Glacier was demolished. Medical aid was despatched by air from Bergen and by ship from Oslo. A similar disaster killed 60 people in 1905. DEATH ROLL INCREASED OSLO, Sept. 14. (Received Sept. 14, at 10.15 p.m.) The casualties at Lake Loen were 74 killed, including 30 children, and 13 injured. The mass which fell into the lake was 2500 ft high and 1000 ft wide. The flood waves hurled the injured 300 yards and wrecked everything a mile inland from Bodal, including the electricity station and sawmills. Many families are ruined and the damage is estimated at £30,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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