ST. BERNARD DOGS
Story of a Rescue in the Swiss Alps PARTY BURIED BY SNOW (Received 21, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 21. How the famous St. Bernard dogs again came to the rescue in the snowclad Alps was told by a girl to the "Daily Telegraph’s” special correspondent at Grenoble. Mademoiselle Ranc, with her uncle, his two sons and three men friends, was overwhelmed by an avalanche when at 7500 feet. The girl found herself able to breaths through a crack and managed to climb out. She realised that the others had been buried and worked with hands bruised and frostbitten until she brought out a youth, who hastened to the St. Bernard Hospice. The dogs came racing down the mountainside to the girl. “Some pressed their bodies against me to warm me, and others, panting, dug the spow with their paws,” she related. "Monks arrived with spades, and all were rescued.”
Three of the party are in a serious condition.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 109, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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