Caught By Landslide
DROVER’S NARROW ESCAPE
Horses and Cattle Buried
Press Association. GISBORNE. To-day. STRUGGLING desperately through a moving landslide of 60 acres in the Arai Valley yesterday, and nearly choked by dry clay, Claude Gordon, a sheep drover, was battered and bruised when he reached safety. Two horses, and a number of sheep and cattle were buried, and the Rae River was dammed.
Gordon had dismounted from his horse and had walked about a hundred yards when what he described as a wave of earth broke over him. He was carried downwards, nearly choked by dry clay and only by struggling to keep his feet with a desperate effort did he manage to reach the side of the slide, and, after falling over a small cliff, reached stable ground. He was badly bruised and battered and in a
state of collapse. The land on which he had left his horse and another horse had completely disappeared. Some hours after the upheaval had subsided the horses were discovered party buried, and it is doubtful whether they can be rescued from the morass. Sixty sheep and seven cattle were also buried in the slip beneath thousands of tons of earth and the Rae River was dammed for about 30 chains.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 1
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209Caught By Landslide Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 1
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