DISASTER IN ALPS
SKIERS LOSE LIVES
AVALANCHE TAKES CHALET
DEATHS IN BLIZZARD
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 4, 2 p.m.) ',:. MUNICH, February 3. A chalet in which eight skiers had taken refuge for the night on the Kampenwald in the Bavarian Alps was flung 500 feet down the mountain side j by an avalanche today. The silence | of the valley was broken by shrieks as some of the skiers struggled out of the wreckage and then dug out their comrades. Clad only in,'nightclqth.es the i men began to struggle through the i biting cold towards Lengries. Two collapsed and died en route. The remainder reached Lengries in' the last stages of exhaustion and are now in, hospital in a critical condition. i
Altogether there were seven deaths in a weekend gale- and blizzard, in the Swiss, Bavarian, and Czech Alps. Rescue parties have been mobilised in all the Alpine regions to search for other skiers cut off by the storm.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 10
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