BLIZZARD IN ALPS
Seven Deaths Result AVALANCHE HITS CHALET Munich, February 3. A chalet in which eight skiers had taken refuge for the night on the Kampenwald iu the Bavarian Alps was flung 500 feet down the mountain side by an avalanche to-day. The silence of the valley was broken by shrieks as some of the skiers struggled out of the wreckage and then dug out their comrades. Clad only in nightclothes the men began' to struggle through the biting,cold towards Lengries. Two collapsed and. died en route. The remainder reached Lengries in the last stages of exhaustion and are now in hospital in a critical condition.
Altogether there were seven deaths in a week-end gale and blizzard in the Swiss, Bavarian and Czech Alps. Rescue parties have been mobilised in all the Alpine regions to search for other skiers cut off by the storm.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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