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FOUR FRENCH TOURISTS KILLED ALPINE TRAGEDY. (Received 11.35 a.m.) United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 15. The Daily News Geneva, correspondent says that a tragedy occurred in the Zermatt district, the worst in 25 years, four being killed. Watchers from a hotel on the Gormergrat witnessed every phase. It was even possible through the telescope to observe three Alpenstocks in the snow and trace the blood where the climbers had fallen. The victims were French tourists. Lebeque, Degigord, Guilbert, and Langlois. They Started early on Friday to climb the Breithorn and remained for hours on a spot some distance up. Finally, they made a supreme effort to reach the summis. The first man lost his footing, and fell 1000 feet into a crevasse, dragging two companions, the third soon disappeared into the abyss. Relief - colunvis immediately searched and found all of them dead.—Sun Cable.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10888, 16 July 1928, Page 6
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