THE MATTERHORN DISASTER.
■"• PABTICULAES OF THE ACCIDENT. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) London. July 28. Particulars of the recent fatal accident on the Matterhorn show that in returning to Yal Tournanohe after a perilous ascent of the mountain, Miss Trow, a clergyman's daughter, slipped. Carrel, the leader of the party, gripped the ice with his alpenstock. She was suspended from her companions for two minutes, but her weight then carried all four ot the party -which included Dr Black and Miss M. Bell—towards a precipice fifty feet deep, at the foot of which was a short slope to the next gully, a thousand feet d9ep, '■ . .• . ■'.■_'. . ~ ' The rope snapped between Carrel and Miss Bell. Carrel was carried past the precipice. Miss Trow, seeing her companions, Dr Black and Miss Bell, lying dead and terribly mutilated, out the rope and joined Carrel. Miss Trow and Carrel are badly injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7068, 30 July 1901, Page 4
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148THE MATTERHORN DISASTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7068, 30 July 1901, Page 4
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