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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7765, 17 March 1905, Page 4

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A Devastating Waie.

\ Fifty-nine of the inhabitants of the ; t " villrtqm,' and Bedal, jjor- ■ a" wtty, Jost?tmir. ljvtw on January l.">, ( by one 'of the strangest accidents | ■ mountains, and oil its shores lac a 1 rustic population, who make a .living , hjt- tending, their farms and catering for the tourists who throng the in- : lets during the season. A little be- ' fore midnight a rumbling noise like i s thunder, came from \hc mountain, i « Thai an enormous portion of,the ' mountain, weighing hundreds of , thousands of tons, broke away from | ' f" Vhs top, £nd rojfed'thundering down 'the, side olt* the mountain v in to the lake. The fiord is land-locked and !;■ ■ narrow, and the fall of the enormous ( rock into it caused a great wave to ; rise, nearly twenty feet high. The I ;v waters svept over the banks of the I lake, and completely destroyed all | V the habitations lying on the narrow , * pledge between.'the lake and tlw inoun- - & 'him'' ' "In "two minutes ihe -waters | engulphed Nesdal and Bedal, instantly levelling the two picturesque villages to " the ground. The people were m bed, and 'had no chance to escape. The waters of the fiord seethed 1 ke a Btorm-toss?d sea, and - • carried everything 'before theui. At Nesdal hot a stona is left, standing, , and tlfe shore -at Bklllf is strewn ! .witli the carcasses of animals. Many , dead human bodies were found thereThe post office at Bedal, with the ' postmaster, and' his family, was carried away. The only survivor Iwre was a little boy. who drifted ashore :/ on a plank. In another case a nak- • ed baby, the only survivor of a large ... family, was found thrown up on the . - sand. Three large farms near Xes- ■ dal, and two in the neighbourhood of Bedal, were iiestrayttl. and of the <fv many crofters' houses along the sea j ; .* mains.' Many of tire houses were lifted bodily /rom their foundations by the tremendous wave, and can i- . 90W be seen.standing upright on the •'J'bottonv of the sen. .; t

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