Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 3 | Glacier Moves Fast Crushes Forests. Bridges

I GLACIKR MOVKS FAST, CRUSILKS FOItKSTS. BRIDGES i j (By International News Serlcc) j GENEVA, April 10. (Special cor- respondencej-V. number of visitors! and some scientists are witnessing aj strange Alpine phenomenon at Grin-del Grin-del wald, where tlvj famous Grendel-wald Grendel-wald glacier has been moving into the . valley at the rate of four feet to slxJ feet daily. It has already destroyed a pine forest for-est and crushed a stone bridge across the Black Lutchine into atms. The ice river continues advancing across,' the -water to the upper bank. j The rapid movement is due to the enormous amount of ice and snow on the higher portions of the glacier. The ordinary pace of a glacier Is a few yards in fifty' years. nn