SKATING TRAGEDY IN THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE.
Tw# Drowned, Thrw Miming Paris, January 14. A rumour spread like wildfire round Paris this afternoon that the ice in the large lake in the Be is de Boulogne had given away, and that forty people had been drowned. It transpired that forty people had fallen through the ice, but only two lives are known to have been lost. Three people are missing. There were about 500 on the ice at four o’clock, when two children quarrelled. One knocked the other down, the ice broke, and the ttvo fell into the water, A large crowd of skaters rushed to help them, and their combined weight breaking a larger piece of ice, nearly all fell into the water. The two children were saved.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 389, 14 March 1908, Page 4
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129SKATING TRAGEDY IN THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 389, 14 March 1908, Page 4
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