Slide Barely Misses Homes-Scant 20 yards from last house on Salmon Beach, a quake-loosened 400-foot cliff spared some 300 residents along beach when it roared into Puget Sound early this morning. About half of slide is shown here extended into water.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Slide Barely Misses Homes-Scant 20 yards from last house on Salmon Beach, a quake-loosened 400-foot cliff spared some 300 residents along beach when it roared into Puget Sound early this morning. About half of slide is shown here extended into water.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1949]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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