Son of Jorgen and Hanna Bendiksen Gabrielsen, he was born in Harstad, Norway, never married, was a mill worker in West Port, lived on Puget Island, died there of asphyxiations, anoxia, carried long distance by water when his house was demolished by a wall of water, per death certificate 1912, whose informant was Gunder Gabrielsen of Puget Island.
Longview Daily News, Sat, Jan 30 1965:
Haakon Gabrielsen, 59, was killed when tons of rocks crashed from a cliff into the Columbia River about 2 am today, about a quarter mile west of Bradley State Park, creating a wave that swept over a portion of the western end of Puget Island. He was apparently asleep when the wave hit. His house is gone - completely. His body was found more than a quarter of a mile away. Residents of the island heard small slides on the cliff beginning about 10 pm, and a larger one at 12:50 am. Many thought it was an earthquake. A woman was miraculously uninjured when the wave lifted her house completely over the dike and deposited it in a field 100 yards away. Dozens of trees, 10 inches in diameter, were uprooted and deposited in a field. More than a mile of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad tracks were either covered or pushed into the river. A section of trestle was washed away.
Gabrielsen, a bachelor, was born May 5, 1905, in Norway, and came to Puget Island in 1907 with his parents, living there since. He worked for Westport Lumber Co, Westport, OR, the past two years.
Surviving are three brothers and two sisters, Gunder Gabrielsen, Fridtjov Gilbertson, Harold Gilbertsen, Astrid Gilbertsen of Puget Island, and Mrs. Sigrid Stevenson of Longview.
Services will be in Dowling Funeral Chapel at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. John Freeman officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Cathlamet.
Longview Daily News, Sat, Jan 30 1965:
Haakon Gabrielsen, 59, was killed when tons of rocks crashed from a cliff into the Columbia River about 2 am today, about a quarter mile west of Bradley State Park, creating a wave that swept over a portion of the western end of Puget Island. He was apparently asleep when the wave hit. His house is gone - completely. His body was found more than a quarter of a mile away. Residents of the island heard small slides on the cliff beginning about 10 pm, and a larger one at 12:50 am. Many thought it was an earthquake. A woman was miraculously uninjured when the wave lifted her house completely over the dike and deposited it in a field 100 yards away. Dozens of trees, 10 inches in diameter, were uprooted and deposited in a field. More than a mile of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad tracks were either covered or pushed into the river. A section of trestle was washed away.
Gabrielsen, a bachelor, was born May 5, 1905, in Norway, and came to Puget Island in 1907 with his parents, living there since. He worked for Westport Lumber Co, Westport, OR, the past two years.
Surviving are three brothers and two sisters, Gunder Gabrielsen, Fridtjov Gilbertson, Harold Gilbertsen, Astrid Gilbertsen of Puget Island, and Mrs. Sigrid Stevenson of Longview.
Services will be in Dowling Funeral Chapel at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. John Freeman officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Cathlamet.
Son of Jorgen and Hanna Bendiksen Gabrielsen, he was born in Harstad, Norway, never married, was a mill worker in West Port, lived on Puget Island, died there of asphyxiations, anoxia, carried long distance by water when his house was demolished by a wall of water, per death certificate 1912, whose informant was Gunder Gabrielsen of Puget Island.
Longview Daily News, Sat, Jan 30 1965:
Haakon Gabrielsen, 59, was killed when tons of rocks crashed from a cliff into the Columbia River about 2 am today, about a quarter mile west of Bradley State Park, creating a wave that swept over a portion of the western end of Puget Island. He was apparently asleep when the wave hit. His house is gone - completely. His body was found more than a quarter of a mile away. Residents of the island heard small slides on the cliff beginning about 10 pm, and a larger one at 12:50 am. Many thought it was an earthquake. A woman was miraculously uninjured when the wave lifted her house completely over the dike and deposited it in a field 100 yards away. Dozens of trees, 10 inches in diameter, were uprooted and deposited in a field. More than a mile of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad tracks were either covered or pushed into the river. A section of trestle was washed away.
Gabrielsen, a bachelor, was born May 5, 1905, in Norway, and came to Puget Island in 1907 with his parents, living there since. He worked for Westport Lumber Co, Westport, OR, the past two years.
Surviving are three brothers and two sisters, Gunder Gabrielsen, Fridtjov Gilbertson, Harold Gilbertsen, Astrid Gilbertsen of Puget Island, and Mrs. Sigrid Stevenson of Longview.
Services will be in Dowling Funeral Chapel at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. John Freeman officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Cathlamet.
Longview Daily News, Sat, Jan 30 1965:
Haakon Gabrielsen, 59, was killed when tons of rocks crashed from a cliff into the Columbia River about 2 am today, about a quarter mile west of Bradley State Park, creating a wave that swept over a portion of the western end of Puget Island. He was apparently asleep when the wave hit. His house is gone - completely. His body was found more than a quarter of a mile away. Residents of the island heard small slides on the cliff beginning about 10 pm, and a larger one at 12:50 am. Many thought it was an earthquake. A woman was miraculously uninjured when the wave lifted her house completely over the dike and deposited it in a field 100 yards away. Dozens of trees, 10 inches in diameter, were uprooted and deposited in a field. More than a mile of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad tracks were either covered or pushed into the river. A section of trestle was washed away.
Gabrielsen, a bachelor, was born May 5, 1905, in Norway, and came to Puget Island in 1907 with his parents, living there since. He worked for Westport Lumber Co, Westport, OR, the past two years.
Surviving are three brothers and two sisters, Gunder Gabrielsen, Fridtjov Gilbertson, Harold Gilbertsen, Astrid Gilbertsen of Puget Island, and Mrs. Sigrid Stevenson of Longview.
Services will be in Dowling Funeral Chapel at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev. John Freeman officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Cathlamet.
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