TEN KILLED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 9

TEN KILLED.

AVALANCHE DISASTER. SKIING PARTY CAUGHT. (BT 'CABLE—PBE6S ASSOCIATION— COPTBIGBT.) (ABSTBALIAH AND *•&• CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 3rd, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 2. Reports from Innsbruck in the Tyrol state that the worst avalanche disaster for many years occurred at Zurs. Ten members of a skiing party, eight Englishmen and two Germans, were buried. The bodies of five of the Englishmen were recovered. The noise of the avalanche sweeping towards the valley was heard for miles around. A DANGEROUS REGION. HUGE SNOWFIELD BREAKS LOOSE. (AUSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 3rd, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. Later messages from Innsbruck state that Arlberg, where the avalanche disaster occurred, is a famous ski-ing region, but a difficult one, being suit-able-only for experts. It is especially dangerous now owing to a thaw following a period of extreme cold. This caused an enormous snowfield, half a inilo wide, to break from b mountain side, engulfing two ski-ing parties from Zurs. Of tViese, two were women, one of whom was killed. Bome of the bodies were buried under a snowdrift as high as a two-storey house. Rescue parties w6rked in relays the whole night through, by light of flares, digging frantically in the hope that someone might be alive. The faces of the victims recovered so far Were calm and passive, indicating that death was instantaneous.