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COLLAPSE OF A GROTTO.

AN ALPINE TRAGEDY

THREE TOURISTS ENTOMBED.

ENGULFED IN ICE,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, August 21

Three tourists wore buried alive in thousands of lons of ice at Saint Pierre d’ALbigny through the collapse of an icc grotto, which is one of the sights of the district. The clave is situated in a ravine in which snow from the surrounding heights is frozen in winter into enormous masses of ice, which does not thaw even in the hottest summer.

A party of 13 entered t'he cave, when the roof collapsed. A woman and two men were entombed behind a wall of ice many feet thick. One body has been recovered, end the ice is being dynamited for the others.

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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 5

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COLLAPSE OF A GROTTO. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 5

COLLAPSE OF A GROTTO. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 5