THE HAND IN THE SNOW
DISCOVERT OF BALLOONISTS BODY. A woodcutter named Sfceincgger was seeking: Alpine flowers on a -wild spot known as the Vorderbachalpe. in tbj Todtcngebirge (Dead Mountains), in Styria, when be caught sight of a. while hand which seemed to beckon from beneath the snow. It was dusk, and Steinegger. seized with terror, (led to his home. At daybreak he set out again with a friend to investigate. When they reached the spot the hand was still there. They dug, and discovered a corpse, in uniform. It was the body of Lieutenant Werner, who disappeared in a military balloon last. December. At the time of his disappearance tourists said that they heard cries from the spot at which the corpse has been found.
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Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 5
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126THE HAND IN THE SNOW Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 5
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