AN AVALANCHE.
VILLAGES IN DANGER. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received June 6, 910 a.m. BERNE, June 5.* The Rossberg mountain, ia the Canton of Schwytz (one of tl.e fcur forest eai'toita ot Switzerland.), wtiute western face fell, burying 500 villages at G'.iHau n. ISO 6, threatens-, a3 the result tf &n to lose its eastern face. r An earth avalanche, estimated at a million, cubic yard. o , is advancing. Se\eral of the villages have been evacuated.
Goldau is a village five and a half miles from Schwytz, capital of the Canton of the. same name. It is situated at the south foot of the Roasberg mountain. The last landslip totally destroyed the former village of Goi--dau, as well as the villages of Bussigen, Rother, and part of Lowess.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19100607.2.36
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
130AN AVALANCHE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in