MOUNTAIN DEATHS 12 Boys May Be Dead
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6.
Twenty-nine teen-age students were trapped by a sudden storm on Sunday while descending from the snowcapped Iztacihautl mountain, and as many as 12 are believed to have died.
Fragmentary and still unconfirmed reports from the village of Amercameca, on the foothills of the long-extinct volcano, said rescue parties were starting on their way down late last night, with the bodies of the dead and injured. The rescue parties were dispatched when a faint distress call from a radio carried by one in the group was heard by operators In the television relay station of Paso de Cortes, near the mountain. Father Rafael Moreno Villa, a Jesuit priest in charge of the boys, reported that he feared 12 had frozen to death. All of the boys were said to be between 14 and 18 years old.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31597, 7 February 1968, Page 13
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