Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-09-10 | Page 1 | Mountain Buried a Town and Swept 255 Persons to Death

M al el 4 I 1 I 1 E niia M I 1 91 1 I 51 ill IVY N in b U I 1 A tow AND S a W A I 1 ap T I 1 DR ah to DEATH so KA I 1 I 1 f I 1 landslide was without warning and the people were buried I 1 alive I 1 cattle peris perished 1 hed and crops were destroyed similar I 1 I 1 r 1 1 1 1 I 1 disasters in the same valley I 1 I 1 t va t 0 J A I 1 V 1 I 1 tiflis sept 10 practically without i warning tho the side of a mountain rising above the township of Kw arell arelt broke awry away and in a sea of semi liquid sand stones atones and mud swept down upon the township and overwhelmed and obliterated it some persons persona have I 1 been buried alive fifty five bodies already have been recovered from tho mire which Is six feet deep in addition to tho the lives lost loat countless head of cattle perished and the crops were I 1 destroyed township occupies an all area of five kilometres kilo metres in the district of delaw in the caucasus similar dial disasters 1 are of common occurrence in caucasian valleys