A DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8859, 9 July 1907, Page 2

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Dashed to Death

Press Association—Copyright. gj| Sydney, July 8. A party of visitors to Katoomba, on the Blue Mountains, paid a visit yesterday to view the wonderfully beautiful sight of the falls and cascades in a frozen state. A boy named Lannen, 13 years of age, was crossing a pieco of ice about 20 feet square when ho slipped and fell shrieking over the edge into a chasm 200 feet below where he was dashed to death.

A precisely similar fatality occurred on tho same spot this morning. A young woman named McAirney, in company with other sightseers, went out to view the falls, and it is surmised the girl went to see the spot where the lad fell and began to slip on the same body of ice. Every effort she made to regain her footing was unavailing, and although a bystander clutched at the girl’s clothes and made an effort to save her, she disappeared over the brink of the deep perpendicular gully and was hurled to death. Both bodies wore shockingly mutilated.