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Show HAMLET BURIED BY MOUNTAIN 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 Persons Per-sons Perished. Buckingham, Quebec. Half tho Ilk-tlo Ilk-tlo French hamlet of Notro Damo do Baletto, sixteen miles from hero on tho Ilevro river, disappeared Sunday, undor a sliding mountain, nnd at least thirty of Its smnll population aro known to havo perished. At G o'clock Sunday morning, Just as tho llttlo hamlet began to stir for early moss, part of tho mountain, started to slide toward tho river. It! tore a path of death and destruction for Its wny, nnd those who wero not killed when their homes woro engulfed en-gulfed wero loft burled undor tho mass ot rock and earth. Latest reports trotn Do Saletto mnke tho number nt known dead thirty, or which oloven bodies havo been recovered. In nil twenty houses wero engulfed In tho slldo. Do Saletto was built on tho two banks of tho river Llcvro. Ono houso on tho west bank, containing tho only ! telephono in tho hamlet, was the first Jj 'obstacle In tho path or tho sliding mountain, nnd in its wreck communication communi-cation with tho outside world was cut off. Tho slldo carried two houses on tho west bank into tho swollen river nnd ncross to tho cast bank nnd then j covered eighteen houses there. Tho ' river was dnmmcd and thoso who were not killed in tiro nvnlancho wero drowned. Do Saletto was built on n hi no clay which rested on n Btratum of limestone lime-stone Flvo years ngo thero wns n similar disaster nt Poupcro and each spring tho Inhabitants along tho river llvo In fenr of land slides. Poupcro then slipped gently Into tho river without loss of llfo. Land-slides nlong tho river aro common each spring with tho rains nnd swollen streams. |