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A Fair Land Ruined

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Scene of Frank Disaster Was One of Canada's Picturesque Valleys.

The scene of the recent awful catastrophe at Frank, N. W. T., where many persons lost their lives by the sliding of the rocky top of Turtle mountain down upon the sleeping village, was originally one of the most picturesque valleys in Canada, says the New York American. Through the center of this valley ran the Old Man river, which has its source on the eastern slope of the Crow's Nest pass. The total width of this valley was a little more than a mile, and a sheer wall of rock rose to a height of 3,500 feet above the level of the town.

The Old Man river followed the side of Turtle mountain, close up against the foot of which the town of Frank was built. The mountain wall was before this catastrophe so tall and precipitous that even in the longest day in midsummer the sun set in the town of Frank at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and after that a twilight ensued.

The material from the slide came down in almost a vertical wall of rock and crossed the valley, a distance of more than a mile, and went part way up the foothills on the opposite side of the valley to a height far above the highest building in town.