THE MATIERHORN ACCIDENT.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER
LONDON, July 29. Particulars of the recent fatal accident on the Matterhorn show that in returning to Val Tournanche after a perilous ascent of the f mountain, Miss Trow, a clergyman's daughter, slipped. Carrel, the leader of the party, griped the ice with his alpenstock. She was suspended from her companions for two minutes, but her weight then carried all four of (he 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 deep. The rope snapped between Can-el and Miss Bell. Carrel was carried past the precipice. Miss Trow, seeing her companions Dr Black and Miss Bell lying dead and terribly mutilated, cut the rope and joined Carrel. Miss Trow aftd Carrel are badly in j ured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 172, 31 July 1901, Page 2
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