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PEOPLE OF CANADIAN TOWNSHIP CLIFF FALLS ON HOMES MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) VANCOUVER, January 24. A midnight dance in a nearby town attended by most of the population of 100 of the mining town of Hedley, in British Columbia, saved scores of lives when an overhanging cliff crashed down a thousand feet, engulfing nine houses. Trapped asleep, Peter Strand and his housekeeper, Johanna Green, were killed. Twenty-three others, including eleven children, aroused by the roar, fled to safety in night attire. Merrymakers returning an hour afterwards found their homes interred.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 6
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101FORTUNATE ABSENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 6
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