TERRIFYING AVALANCHES
SANATORIUM AND HOTELS AT DAVOS OVERWHELMED.
(I!«. December 29, 0.30 <un.) Berne, December 26, Thero have been terrifying avalanches at Davos during the height of the winter pports season. Six descended within an hour- from Schiahorn and overwhelmed tho sanatorium and several .lai'go hotels, filli'ng the whole of the.floors with snow. Tivo bodies have been dug out, and it is feared that many others have been buried. Many visitors were imprisoned for hours in the upper floors, and )noirientarily expected the wulls to collapse. The avalanches fell in tho day time when most of the visitors were out of doors. Otherwise hundreds would have been suffocated in their bedrooms. Davos is isolated. The trains are.embedded m snow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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121TERRIFYING AVALANCHES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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