GROTTO COLLAPSES
TOURISTS BURIED ALIVE (Rec. August 21, 11.20 p.m.) Paris, August 20. Three tourists were buried alive in thousands of tons of ice at St. Pierre d’Albigny, in the Department of Snr voie, through the collapse of an ice grotto, which is one of the sights of the district. The cave is situated in a ravine, in which snow from the surrounding heights of the alpine foothills is frozen during the winter into enormous masses of ice, which does not thaw even in the hottest summer. A party of thirteen entered the cave, when the roof collapsed. A woman and two men were entombed behind an ice wall many feet thick. One body has been recovered, and the ice is being dynamited to release the others.^ —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 '
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 7
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