Show aget M Y MUM SLIDE terrible death overtakes residents of little french town on the lievre river in quebec mass of earth came roaring down at an early hour in the morning and at least thirty per cons zone perished buckingham quebec halt half the lit tie Us french hamlet of notre dame de balette salette sixteen miles from here on the river disappeared sunday sun day under a sliding mountain and at least thirty of its small population are known to have perished at 5 clock sunday morning just the little hamlet began to stir for early mass part of the mountain started to slide toward the river it tore a path of death and destruction for its way and those who were not killed when their homes were en gulfed were left buried under the mass of rock and earth latest reports from de salette make the number of known dead thirty of which eleven bodies have been recovered in all twenty houses were engulfed in the slide de salette was built on t the he two banks of the river lievre one house on the est bank containing the only telephone in the hamlet was the first obstacle in the path of the sliding mountain and in its wreck comment cation with the outside world was cut off the slide carried two houses on oil the west bank into the swollen river and across to the east bank and then covered eighteen houses there the river was dammed and those who were not killed in the avalanche were drowned de salette was built on a blue clay which rested on a stratum of lime stone five years ago there was a similar di disaster aster at and each spring the inhabitants along the river live in fear of land slides pou pere then slipped gently into the river without loss of life landslides land slides along the river are common each spring with the rains and swollen astrea streams me |