BIG HOTEL BURIED
STRUCK BY AN AVALANCHE. SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERNE, February 20.
A family of seven, including four children, are believed to have perished when a big -hotel near Orisons was struck by an avalanche and burned under 20 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21267, 23 February 1931, Page 7
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