DASHED TO DEATH.
DISTRESSING FATALITIES. SIGHTSEERS FALL OVER ICE PRECIPICE. Received Bth, !U8 p.m. Sydney, July 8. A party of visitors at Katoomba paid a visit yesterday to view tlic wonderfully beautiful sight of the falls and cascades in a frozen state. A lioy named Launen, 13 years of age, crossed a piece of ice about 20 feet square, and fell, shrieking, over the edge into a chasm 200 feet below, ajid was dashed to death.
Precisely a similar fatality occurred at the same spot this morning. A young woman, Miss McArincy, in company with other sightseers, went out to view the falls, and it is surmised that the girl went to see the spot when the lad fell. She began io slip on the same body of ice. Every effort the made to regain her footing was unavailing, and, although the bystanders clutched at the girl's clothes and mule efforts to save her, she disappeared over the brink into the deep |M?rpendieular gully, and was hurled to death. Both bodies were shockingly mutilated.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 July 1907, Page 3
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174DASHED TO DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 July 1907, Page 3
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