The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-31
Couple Are
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City Grew Warns Residents Hope Apartments
 Missed Ten Feet

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 A hillside saturated by a record rainfall during the weekend storm plunged TOO feet into the home of MT. and Mrs. Robert Light on Gastineau Avenue early yesterday morning
 It began with a slide of water logged muck and rock which jam med into the rear of the Light home and was followed by logs and more muck. The load pushed the four-room one-story house Is feet, twisting it and forcing in the walls O. the kitchen and bedroom.
 Butts of trees, sliding behind the muck, hit the debris piled 10 feet against the rear wall of the house, swung and stopped at an angle to the slide, sparing houses below Gastineau Avenue.
 Trees 30 to 50 feet long and as much as three feet at the butts Iiled up tehind the debris, and a terraced vegetable garden was flattened.
 MISS INJURY
 MT. and Mrs. Light were awak- ened as the muck hit the house. They were not injured, although three-foot butt of tree with spread ng roots rammed through the kitchen root and piece of rock was forced through the roof above she living room.
 The slide, which originated in gulch on Mount Roberts above the house, left bare rock and a tumb- ling stream in its wake.
 A 5O-foot tree, hanging across Eare rock from trees on either side of the-slide cleared strip, stopped other debris from plummetting into the house.
 Juneau police patrolmen Ernest Dennis and Hartley Crosby, patroll- ing South Franklin Street. heard the slide and rushed to the scene. They entered the Light residence and helped the couple out of the damaged dwelling. Then they re- entered and put out the tire in the stove.
 CITY CREW SPREADS l WARNING MT. and Mrs. Light were taken to the home of their son-in-law, Arnold Hildre, llol Capital Avenue. | A city street crew, under City engineer J. L. McNamara. witnessed the slide. They had been clearing a storm drain on the mountainside 20c feet north of the slide i Rushing to the slide area. they aided police in awakening and warning residents in the danger area. .
 One of the street crew turned in a fire alarm but broke the mechan- ism ty exerting too much pressure
 Residents in Che Hope apartment house, which was missed only l( leet by the slide, went to hotek after being awakened but returned 1 to their homes later. Corporal Arthur Sanford. ACs supply man, living at 223 Gasti. neau Avenue, a short distance from the Light residence. heard the slide coming.
 1 T was on my feet right away he said. T got into my kit. shool my wife awake, and we were oul that door,
 The brush and rock, mud ane logs narrowly missed the house O Oscar HegstAd, Alaska Laundr. truck driver. who lives behind ans a few yards south of the Ligh residence.
 The slide was turned slightly b. a retaining wall. and only on corner Of the house was slightl,
 
 damaged.
 DIDN'T HEAR TT
 Charles A. Tooke, construction worker, was asleep in the Hop Apartment building when the slid occurred. He said he did not hea the slide. Street crew men awakene, him, and he and his wife and sor Ronnie, IS months. went to tn Juneau hotel.
 Mrs. Gall Carver, who lives witl her husband at 2l5 Gastineau Ave nue and one door away from thl Light residence. said they were no awakened by the slide.
 We heard 1t hit. That was all she said. By that time it was tot late to be afraid.p
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