LATEST CABLE NEWS. THE MATTERHORN DISASTER.
Further Particulars. United Press Association • By Electric Telegraph — Copyright (Received July 29, 9 a.m.} London, July 28. Additional particulars relative to the Alpine disaster show that the party were returning to Valtoarnancke after a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Miss Trow, a clergyman's daughter, slipped. Carrel, the guide of the party, gripped the ice, and held Ms companions for two minutes, but the weight then carried all four towards a precipice fifty feet deep, at the bottom of which was a short slope to the next gully, a thousand feet deep. Tbe rope Bnapped between Carrel and Miss M. Bell and Carrel was carried beyond them. Miss Trow, seeing her companions, Mr Black and Miss Bell, were lying dead, terribly mutilated, cut the rope and went to Carrel. Miss Trow and Carrel were barely injured. . Miss M. Bell was a daughter of Mr Edward Bell, partner in the firm of George Bell and Sons, publishers. Mr Black was at the end of the rope. . ' Other parties saw the catastrophe.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9299, 29 July 1901, Page 8
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175LATEST CABLE NEWS. THE MATTERHORN DISASTER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9299, 29 July 1901, Page 8
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