THE WAIHI LANDSLIDE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2767, 23 March 1910, Page 3

THE WAIHI LANDSLIDE.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. MUD THIRTY FEET DEEP. I ITicn Pit khs Association. | j AUCKLAND, March 22. Further, particulars of the land-slide at Waaihi show that Tamaiwhana, among others, was making a wild rush for safety, when a big boulder struck him and knocked him down. He recovered himself and renewed his flight, but the body of the landslip overtook him and : in a. few seconds' he was overwhelmed. The last seen of him was his legs dangling out of the slushy mud. A young woman named Hoko just managed to get clear of the oath of the slide, and sank senseless. She was removed to safety. As the mass nitched into the lake a tidal wave rose some ten feet in height, and swept to the opposite shore, where some children were playing. They were swept off their feet but were rescued by adults with some difficulty. All the boats and canoes on the lake were washed away. The natives all left the village, and refuged at Pukawa. The slip started a thousand feet above the lake level, a mile and a half from the shore, and its walls are cut out of the country 200 feet deen. Mud thirtv feet deep covers the road from Tokaanu to Waaihi.