BURIED IN SNOW
WHOLE FAMILY PERISHES IN SWITZERLAND (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERNE, 20th February. A family of seven, including four children, is believed to have perished when a big hotel near Grisons was struck by an avalanche and buried in twenty feet of snow. The bodies of a septuagenarian woman and her six-year-old grandson have been recovered. Three others were dug out alive.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 5
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65BURIED IN SNOW Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 5
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