ALPINE DISASTER
TEN HUN BURIED. |Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.? LiONDON. Jan. 2. Innsbruck reports that the worst avalanche disaster for many years has occurred at Zures. Ten members of a ski-ing party, eight of them Englishmen and two-. Germans, were buried. The bodies of five of the Englishmen have been recovered. The noise of the avalanche sweeping towards the valley was heard for miles around. LONDON. Jan. 3. Later messages from Innsbruck state that Allberf, where the avalanche disaster occurred, is a famous ski-ing ground, but it is difficult, being suitable only for experts. It is especially dangerous now owing to a thaw following on extreme cold. This has -caused enormous snowfalls half a mile wide, to break from the mountain side.
There were two ski-ing parties from Zures. Of these, two members were women, one of'whom was killed. Some of the bodies are buried under a snowdrift as high as a two-storied house. Rescue parties worked in relays the whole night through, by the light of flares, digging frantically in the hope that someone might ho alive.
The faces of the victims recovered so far were calm and passive, indicating that death had been instantaneous.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 2
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