ALPINE FATALITIES.
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. [mUSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 24, 9 a.m.) LONljua, 23rd August. Many Alpine disasters have been reported. Five climbers wero killed in two days. |'l liirly-nine lutal ateidonU to Alpino touri.st.x \>t;ro recorded to tlio end of June, making tiio total nf dcathh 92, although Uk> climbing hca.sou properly speaking had scarci-ly commenced. Counting the fatalities in* tho Fivmh Alps and Iho Tyrol, there were 150 deaths during tho preceding .six months. A< cording to official fitatistica 200 avalanches had fallen up to tho end of June among tlic mountains of Swit/ierland since the beginning of the year, killing more than fifty Swiss villagers and dcnlroyitig an enormous amount of property. As n r«»ult of the huge quantities of snow which fell lant winter, the question of forbidding the villagers inhabiting the exposed mountain slopes will bo discussed shortly.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1904, Page 5
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