BURIED IN SNOW.
AVALANCHES DESTROY HOTELS. By Telegraph.—Press Aasn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 29, 1.5 a.m. Betne, Dee. 2C. Terrifying avalanches occurred at Davos during the height of the winter sports season. Six descended within an how from Seliiohorn and overwhelmed a sanatorium and several large hotels, filling tho whole of the floors with snow. Five bodies have been dug out, and it is feared that many others have been buried. Many visitors were imprisoned follows in the upper floors, momentarily expecting the walls to collapse. THe avalanches fell in the daytime, when most of the visitors were out of doors, otherwise hundreds would have been suffocated in their bedrooms. Davos is isolated, trains being embedded in snow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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118BURIED IN SNOW. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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