ALPINE TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 6

ALPINE TRAGEDY

FOUR MEN KILLED WITNESSED EROAI HOTEL. Pr«si Association—By Telegraph—Copyright; LONDON, July 15. (Received July 16, at 11,35 a.m.) The Genova correspondent of Dio ‘ Daily Nows ’ says that a tragedy that occurred m tlio Zermatt district is the worst for twenty-five years, four people being killed. Watchers from the hole! on Gornergrat witnessed every phase of the accident. It was even possible through a, telescope to observe three alpenstocks in the snow, and to trace the blood where the climbers had fallen. The victims were four French tourists named Lo Bocquc, Do Gigorcl, Guiibert, ami J-anglois. 'j hey siariv . early on Friday to climb Brciiliorn. They remained for hours on a spot some distance up. Finally, D’"- made a supremo effort to roach thy suiunu-. The first man lost his footing ami fell 1,000 feet into a crevasse, dragging two of his companions. The D man soon disappeared into the abyss. Belief columns immediately searched and found all of them dead. —United .Service.