Show ! i THE OGDEN STANDARD - EXAMINER SUIIDAY HORNING APRIL 5 1931 f "V fc 1 " X - v- s' s ' - V 4 'V V c&v f $ ' X & s t 7 v X V Av X 7 y'& K I ’t-- w & ' in the y t Sad Task — One of the Young House ives of the Village of Linthal Moving Ier Belongings and Her Daughter to a Place of Safety to Avert Death -in the Impending Landslide fy 'V : S t' 4 '"7'tpy e Wv X "M& vr - vys- “'M 'c : Ic H' J '-- t: ' '' ? -4? 2 :( 'V V-'- i-- ? X‘ To a Swiss his is not only a of stone and being as much a part of him a3 his hands or eyes!' It has cared for j - w3 v 'Si y j- 1 ' iX r& '4 ' - yf j x I J&' t tV fc X r- - 5x ' V'' - his father and grand- father and forebears K for generations and it has been for him a- lov- - v'f4Tte& 3 vJs ' y?Tx i '376 4 Vy F 'i y &Xt&S X-- -'' 4$ nv I’X - x W’stJe-- - ': ? 'f o'”1' s X'svi! x ' a wander vv x &&£ 1 7® ss-- Si&iprzsrx 'v-i- s£ 3? M' i i ‘jrV t' aMk ‘ f S JS y y s ' Py"s - “'afe fi Jx HitN t 'y -- ! 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VAX' A :yv y?- - ' ip-T- - fh -:--v AV ' are at present directed toward a town in one of its most beautiful valleys where a catastrophe which everyone knows about but which no one can stop will soon occur t' ‘ '77L-- - v : v - x a- - y y ruin? to abutthis be a j little Is d I J j f ! eec MMwwvSSpC'V j ' V pt Lfnthal a small community in X-'rCanton Glams is about to be v mountain its neighi j'-&!- destroyed by bor tne mighty Kilchenstock The canton government orJust as if Cosmic Forces Were Driving' dered evacuation from the Colossal Wedge Into the Solid Sandstone Which threatened area last November Mount Kilchenstock 15000000 Mkes -Up The catastrophe is expected to w' Surface Have Been Movmg take place this month when the Tons of Mountain Scint!i? pf?il'1 f81 Spring thaws wiU send rivulets f?0"1!0 i!?or Monntaimide Fall Into down over the countryside m lli Spnng and Wipe Out the Town the valley and release fifteen th VaU7 This V Residents Have v million tons of rock Today of ythal aAbout Which the Visible at Righ zS no HeavyWall there are dogs or cats in the li E r in This Photo ' lv village for instinct has warned them and they have fled v pfil ' k 'Jzt Linthal Is situated in the Swisstoms of restlessness for several sea''srjt speaking portion of Switzerland about sons When a mountain in Switzerland in the middle of the eastern part of the exhibits such traits it is the duty of country It ' la about three noun from the nearest community to report to the Zurich and about two from Basle government which then sends experts I About five hundred persons have been to supervise the situation Under the N v ' Those leadership of Dr Albert Heim of the obliged to leave their homes who need care are being provided for University of Zurich dean of Swis3 by an emergency relief association the Kilchenstock has been which dispenses funds appropriated by geologists for several Dr investigated the canton and the township as well as Heim incidentally is the years widower of generous free-wi-ll offerings Dr Marie Heim the first European The Heim3 have woman physician Although fifteen hundred avalanches been a distinguished family for half a in the Swiss Alps are known to science a landslide such as the one now in proscentury pect is a rare event There was one in In the case of the Kilchenstock a the vicinity of Linthal about fifty quartz sandstone mass is gradually de- feir3-Lyears ago accompanied by much loss taching itself from a substratum of of life That calamity is still spoken of slate and is slowly but surely descendfScvTf' in awed tones Much of the legendary ing into the valley below A rock mass A lore of the land centers about the idea does not separate itself from its underthat some day “the mountain will come lying strata over its entire surface at j into the valley N once but piecemeal so that an avaThe disintegration of mountains Is lanche does not occur unto the last an interesting study No deluge of rock point of contact is snapped loose Each is a fascinating While the separation is taking place “just happens chapter in itself Only one mountain fissures are obvious on the surface so at a time gets sick not a whole chain exact measurements can be taken for which reason each phenomenon An interesting phenomenon noted in ' -- can be studied over a long period of this sort of happening is that the vi- The Village Which Now Stands on the Site of the Old Town of Elm Near Onthal b rations of the earth cause animals to j nst?nce the leave and seek safety elsewhere The Switzerland After a Mountain Landslide Had Demolished Houses Kilchenstock has been showing symp- - Linthal cats left town and Snuffed Out Blany Lives long ago r -- t x i'- ' i k r 2$Ys 'a i d alley about to be covered with debris? ‘"Will L never again see winding street will and that sunpy V corner by the old spring L be gone forever?’ Ari" man locks aged V V himself in his empty house and will not go out until ' nightfall "A when he Is forced to Xx as seek a place of safety Xvhx'5'iA'Av A mother puts flower on a tiny mound All is still intact but there ' broods the specter of — f h imminent ruin hate to believe They the prognostications And many of them don’tj So they talk and talk and talk The en-tire valley in jwhich the doomed villages are situated is on fire with talk All subjects other than the impending disaster are in temporary oblivion It is conceivable that even up to the day of the disaster some of the residents of the little Village will go to safe perches on neighboring mountains fill their eyes with last yiew of Linthal They can hardly be blamed Aside from sentimental Considerations Linthal is one Of the beauty spots Of Switzerland The neighborhood abounds in magnificent waterIn 1927 the gigantic side of the Kilchenstock was observed to move falls steep slopes rich lowlands cultiat the rate of one millimeter a day vated to the last degree of productivity and at the rate of one to in the familiar patchwork design of ' two a day In' November 1930 the thrifty Swiss landscape There are smooth highways connectmeasurements indicated that the rock moved ten millimeters a day ing an infinity of villages each featurchurch and cluster of its This was considered serious enough ing well-bui- lt houses with the weather-staine- d to warrant official interference chalet types relayed to the outwhich resulted in the evacuation g order lying and higher regions Human intelligence finds itself at a When the Winter frost set in in December there was practically no Toss in the presence of such a great movement but as soon as the ground natural phenomenon as this Nothing The apparently that man can do Will avail thaws the slide is inevitable this to stay the natural law which declares thaw at to has started ground that the Kilchenstock must fall and dewriting stroy Linthal The Kilchenstock avalanche will In the hope of staving off some damdescend on a practically and possibly of holding the age incline from an elevation of back at the base a wall of’ over three thousand feet The force rock and has been erected about earth million these fifteen engendered by the this Is considered a but village tons will be sufficient to send a waste effort of the majority of the by tons and mass of one hundred fifty one and a half times around the people Even the great wall of China the ancient walls of Babylon would pretty or equator And Linthal the directbe of little avail in the case of the avalittle village in the valley lies lanche about to come mountainside’s in the path ly ‘ When the event Hs a thing pf the There i3 no necessity for any loss and the debris la cleared away past of life provided the citizens stay It i3 expected the town will be rebuilt area The threatened the from away and business will again be resumed To course of the descent has been carereconstruction the canton is facilitate near and if persons fully chartered to the exthe scene vHU only run in the right reimbursing property-ownelosses" their cent of tent of eighty per direction when the trouble begins is there But suspense— There is only save today their lives' they may a certain macabre interest in the too long and too short f Every moment one has ever been between now and the ayalanche will be thought that noavalanche there is tense and yet there are those who ""hurt’ by an cerely hope that Linthal may be saved either instant death or there i3 esj by a miracle or otherwise cape will be The saved not Linthal But homes their to leave The order is for the Linthalers a sentence of dogs and cat3 which fled from the val- doom incomprehensible to an Amer-- ley week3 ago were right "960 v ‘V i steep-roofe- AVy st THE "i--j v pPjP' v -- ’’ I Sx -- x 'W&P V i$iS t 5 ?F p v-- rP’ i C Sx--:vV 0 x 'ty 7 s i f s " j lis this-Crooke- x rxfA ?s P? '1 ?W yM? :'MSr'74s ' v1? their 1 'xs " ? : d$yS$&: k vy 751 i 'J rrP x PVt? i ' k ' ' Yh t ' - (X yi PL M ? 9f 7si7i'y tW r A jf t A From Our Own Correspondent BASLE Switzerland March 17 1931 sympathies of all x t '7 r rm yf X- va 'hi--- i X' 5 : x ik& fr'vth v 'XJ J " 1 o' r' n V Sjr'vj r ?jL w ’I:' y XSAV v about houses like Stores are de- empty ghosts factories afe serted shut down all business at an end yet the dispossessed haunt the familiar thoroughfares lost in mazes of un- reality Jt XV ‘Vs-- : A Vlesv ol vx-e- c f t AX i:i :X ? rf'iJ1’ sr -- J1 ing mother" rather thin an inanimate thing At this writing tne Linthalers have not ill gone away They have removed their personal belongings But they 4W yAxStVw: XvK ' Vi S V V- o£ - i i t r'' x- Is a sentient it wood !' r- V- £''? 'i j ': Ar ' "' L - 'Vi 3 -- ' - f V- - '- " T”' v 4 $ i "Ot of the Kilchenstock vT-- f £ VipX f y A Swiss Mountain Whose Certain Goal !s the ' y& ' 41' ' 1 of This Mighty ' r 11 l : V ': Path 4 s '"V - 5 jfc On 4 Empty Houses and Forsaken Villas ' r I" X ''' 7Jt I Fyt2 Stand ' i - ' Newspaper Feature Service 1131 i in-19- v 28 j i red-spir- ed far-flun- i f half-vertic-al rock-fragme- nts I rs ‘ N i |