GIRLS AWFUL FALL.
HURLED TO DEATH DOWN A PRECIPICE. Gj'.st.Va, August 16.Another terrible Alpine accident lias happened, the victim being a young girl named Klaeger, aged 2,0 years, who is employed in an office at St. Gall. With two Swiss girl students of the Winter tliur Technical School, she left on Friday to attempt the ascent of the Great Kreuzberg, one of the most difficult peaks in the Santis Alp». They went without a guide, and when they had reached a considerable height found further progress upward impossible. They then decided to descend, and had covered the worst portion of the homeward journey, when they unroped. Suddenly the (wo students heard their companion scream out. "1 am falling." At the same moment she lost her hold of the cord, and disappeared ovei the edge of the precipice. , . Terror-stricken, the other girls scrambled down the rest of the desceatj and on arriving at the bottom, secured the assistance of some shepherds in the search for their lost companion. ■She was found lying at the base, of the precipice, 300 ft below the spot from which she had fallen. She was dead, her skull and limbs being horribly smashed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 14 October 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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