Show LANU ff 01 N N FA a t S A L I 1 D I 1 U in 0 is V I 1 S I 1 A tow I 1 half of de salette entirely disappears under a slid ing mountain buckingham quebec april 26 half the little french hamlet of notre danic dame rie be salette sixteen miles f from rom here on the lievre river disappeared today under a sliding mountain and at least thirty of its small population a are re known to have perished the hamlet has no telephone or telegraph nor is it on a railroad Jk leagre bits of news of the disa disaster stef come in by messenger from the p physicians and other rescuers who were hurried there when the first calls for aid canie came early this morning the river lievre winds at the foot odthe of the hamlet and a mountain towers bel behind find spring rains for days have been melting snow and ice fee on the mountainside and streams have been coursing down to tho the river at A 5 p clock this thip morning just as i s t the h e ll 11 little atle hamlet began to stir for early m mass s a se section tion 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 engulfed were left buried under the mass of rock and earth camille la pointes house stood first in the path of the avalanche he and his hi s family of eleven are known to have been killed eight others whose names have not been obtained are known to bo be missing and the rescuers rescue ns are attempt attempting inK to find definitely how many more are mis missing sing mrs desjardins cottage also was swept away and she with her two children a domestic and a hired man are known to be burled in the landslide do de salette like many hamlets of its kind rambles into gardens and little fields on the mountainside so lo about halt half of it was not in the path of the slide the sliding mass aass rushed with a roar and spread fanlike fan like over part of the place and dumped itself in ahe swollen stream at its foot cut off from the outside world messenger yere were dispatched to houpert Hou pere the nearest hamlet those who arrived first estimated that at least east a dozen houses were crushed in the th path of the lind landslide slide buckingham was appealed to but the flight of the messengers across the spring roads was slow those first on the scene found do de salette in a panic with the uninjured ones packing their belongings for flight the first messen messenger rs to ducking buckingham ordered twenty five coffins to be be sent bent to de salette and all the physicians of tho the town were hurried across the country with rescue parties latest reports from do de salette make the nur number ilber of known dead thirty of which eleven bodies have been recovered twenty houses were engulfed in the slide do de salette was wag built on the two banks of the river 11 evre one house on the west bank containing the only telephone in the hamlet was the first obstacle in the path of the sliding mountain and in its wreck communication with the outside world was wa cut off the slide carried two houses on tho west bank into the sk swollen ollon river and across to the east bank and then covered eighteen houses there tho 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 limestone five years ago there was a similar disaster at Pou pere and each spring the inhabitants along the river live in fear of landslides then slipped doutly into the river without loss of life landslides along the alv river r are c common each spring with the rains and swollen streams the lievre at do saletto was a tor ter rent fifty yards wide occupants of the houses bouses on tho the west bank felt tho the ground slipping and made a rush for safety but vero carided cirr iod ino info the river |