150 ^^^^ *^^ MOUNT ROSEXBERO. 



and Laiiwertz. M. M. Freudcnreich and Schlatter, di- 

 rectors of the mines, set out yesterday evening, by order 

 of Government, to give aid. The following are the details 

 of this disaster, the most dreadful recorded in the annals 

 of Switzerland : 

 Sudden fall of " On Tuesday, the 2d of September, at five in the 

 the summit of evening, the Knippenbuhl Rock, which formed the sum- 

 berff over- " "^'* ^^ Mount Rosenberg, was on a sudden detached from 

 wheUning live its station, and at the same time part of the mountain, of 

 DanP^fiuTi several feci in thickness, on the western side, and about 

 lake. 280 feet in thickness on the east side, gave way, and fell 



into the valley which separates the lake of Zug from that 

 of LauMcrtz, overM'helming the whole of the villages of 

 Goldau, llccthan, Busingen, Iluzloch, three parts of that 

 of Lauwertz, and some houses in the village of Stein. The 

 fall of one part of the mountain into the lake of Lau- 

 wertz, about a fourth part of which is filled up, caused 

 sncli an agitation in the waters of the lake, that they over- 

 threw a number of houses, chapels, millSy &c. along the 

 southern shore of the lake; amongst others, the mill of 

 Lauwertz where fifteen persons were killed and buried in 

 the ruins of the buildings, all the parts of which were dis- 

 persed with such violence, that the foundation only re- 

 mains. This mill was situated 50 or 60 feet above the 

 level of the lake. 

 «uffcrer». " The waves also beat against the village of Seeven, 



situate at the extremity of the lake, and destroyed some 

 houses. Two persons were killed. — In the villages which 

 were overwhelmed, not an individual escaped. Upwards 

 of 1,000 persons have been victims of this disaster. A 

 society of travellers, thirteen in number, were on the 

 road from Arth to ^chwitz : nine, who walked first, 

 perished ; the other four, who were about forty paces 

 distant, escaped. Those who were killed, were, M. M. 

 Rodolph Jenner, of Brestenberg ; Colonel Victor Steig* 

 ner, of Berne ; Charles May, of Ruth ; Doctor Ludwig, 

 of Arbon, in Thurgovia ; Mademoiselle Diesbach, of 

 Berthoud ; Madame Diesbach, of Watteville ; Madame 

 Frankhauser, of Berthoud ; and two guides, of Arth. 

 Five minutes sufficed to complete this disaster. 

 The effects ex- ^' At Schwitz, some persons heard the noise, and savr 



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