FATAL ALPINE ACCIDENTS.
0 , , Two Alpine accidents, each' attended by fatal results, were reported at Geneva 011 June 29. The first is that of Mile. Schieble, aged twenty-nine, of Zurich, who was returning, after ascending tho Speer, when she left her friends, in spite of tlieir warnings, to collect flowers. She fell from somo slippery rocks a distance of 360 ft., and was killed. Herr Opplan'gor, a photographer, of Stuttgart, left Glarus, without a guide, to ascend a neighbouring peak, in order to obtain photographs. While placing his camera ho slipped over a precipico and was found dead by a search party. The following fatal accidents are also reported : —Herr Biermayer, a chemist of Oberaudorf, fell over a precipico on the Joffenspitzo, in the Kaisergebirge, and was dashed to pieces. Mme. Tony Henedix, a singer of Dusseldorf, who was making an excursion to the Kesselbcrg Falls, near Kochol, with Herr Ernst Dasch, a student, of Munich, fell over a precipice and was killed.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 276, 14 August 1908, Page 8
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