ALPINE FATALITIES.
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(Received August 7, 10.40 a.m.) London, August 6. A number of Alpine accidents are reported. A son of Sir John Henry Bergne, head of the commercial department and Examiner of Treaties at the British Foreign, office, whilst ascending Schreckhom, a summit of the Swiss Alps, accompanied by a number of guides, fell 150 feet. All were severely injured, aud - one guide succumbed. ' . Doctor HerU, of Paris, whilst climbing ' Zermott, fell, and was killed.
A Zurich tourist and two guides were killed by an avalanche whilst touriug iv Switzerland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8588, 7 August 1899, Page 2
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97ALPINE FATALITIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8588, 7 August 1899, Page 2
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