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Show AVALANCHE IS DESTRUCTIVE Land Covered With Ice and Tree Trunks and Forest Upiootcd. fionovn. The unprecedented, extensive exten-sive nvnluneho which descended from the summit of Mont lllnnc into the ltulliiii valley of Ciiurinnyour has unwed gi eater havoc than was first reported. re-ported. Several square kllomotorH of land ure covered with blocks of Ice. tree trunks and boulders, and near the village of Portinl a plno forest, celebrated cele-brated for Its antiquity nnd tho size uf the trees, was absolutely uprooted A mountain torrent named the Dolre dimmed up tho debris and overflowed ih.- Iwiiks so that tho village of l'or Hid esioped only by a nilrocio. The avalonchu fell through tho air a d'stnnu' of about 10.000 feot, landing land-ing on tho Uronvu glaclor and enrrj-lug enrrj-lug away a portion. Tho detonation v is s.i poworful ns to shako houses fifty miles nwny. |