ANOTHER ALPINE TRAGEDY.
SURVIVOR'S DREADFUL ORDEAL
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LONDON, September b,
The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports tliat Hoessel, a Swiss student, narrates a horrible ordeal he underwent while touring in the Alps with a man named Schaer and Schaer's son. They climbed the llothorn, nearing tho summit at eight o'clock in the evening. The three were roped together. Schiwr senior fell, dragging his son with him, the father being killed and the son fatally injured, lAit tho rope held. Hoessel remained on the ledge supporting the weight of the dead and living. Hoessel was unable to raise the dying man, who talked to him for. several hours, telling of his sufferings until he died. Meanwhile Hoessel was unable to more without' risking liis life. He remained thus till clawn, when lie crawled to the of the precipice, and, finding his companions dead, cut the rope.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17862, 7 September 1923, Page 9
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154ANOTHER ALPINE TRAGEDY. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17862, 7 September 1923, Page 9
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