Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Aftermath of Swedish Landslide--Houses are lifted from their foundations and sidewalks are uprooted in Surte, Sweden following a giant landslide Friday which crushed some 40 houses and moved a railroad 100 yards. Police in Goteborg, nine miles away, said only one person is known to have been killed. Surte is an industrial community of 2,000 inhabitants in western Sweden.
Aftermath of Swedish Landslide--Houses are lifted from their foundations and sidewalks are uprooted in Surte, Sweden following a giant landslide Friday which crushed some 40 houses and moved a railroad 100 yards. Police in Goteborg, nine miles away, said only one person is known to have been killed. Surte is an industrial community of 2,000 inhabitants in western Sweden.
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Aftermath of Swedish Landslide--Houses are lifted from their foundations and sidewalks are uprooted in Surte, Sweden following a giant landslide Friday which crushed some 40 houses and moved a railroad 100 yards. Police in Goteborg, nine miles away, said only one person is known to have been killed. Surte is an industrial community of 2,000 inhabitants in western Sweden.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1950]

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