Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-11-30

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ried over thss brink, hut siuck AZ ~ M
aged tos hold {fastS ~ some Sttlnted spins
trees. which broke sss
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death. One had both his feet smashed
90 that they had to be amp tated atE
once. The others mana ged ito sesclpss
without permanent disability H "A;
MI Hardly Ind the excitement over thessS
accidents died away chen q party Is 4
lmountaineers brought IA the bodies ofS
DR.. Max schaefe Of Berlin and hin
guide, Johant, 4 Hofer Of Walls. The \
two corpses had been found In 9 deep
,chasm Of the great glacier sof the Oh
lperer. 1 I The rope still connected both
men. and the guides body was deeply
marked with sit4where evidently he had
wound it around his waist IN 4 desper-I
ate effort to save his patron. Appar.&
emily the doctor had lost his footing,
and his fall had, slowly dragged both 4
men to death. !. =. .ss.- ..,.&I....- ,t,,@#2@
u In the same week another doctor LETT
j Pertisau, near Innsbruck, for a short
walk. He. climbed the seekur noun
tain for only short distances; but,
short as 1t was, It was fatal journey,
for he was found the next day In ra-t
vine. His clothing was tattered abso.
lutely to rags, and this, with the condi-
! ton OF the body. gave mute evidence
Of the frightfulness Of the fall. He
had stepped into what be; thought was
q cozy place to rest. but 1t proved 20
be only a bush that grew up from the
very edge of the ravine, and the unfor-
tunate man went headlong down the
side of the rock Bloody finger marks
on the protuberance in the course OF
the descent showed how hard he had
fought for life, grasping at everything
as he went flying downward. But all
his efforts had been in vain.
\ little more than month ago
Miss Thompson. an English tourist,
was found dead. wedged in the rocky
bed of torrent IN the Engelberg IAN
gel uountain,. a" St'''zar-
land. She had been missing for two
months. When she left her hotel, It
had been with the intention Of taking
stroll up q road wh!ch wns consider
ed perfectly safe. But she must have
wandered from the path and slipped
down the rocks Two days after the
finding Of her body Erich Schandlbau.
err. the 14-year-old son OF Il hotel keep
er In Zell. fell over the edge IN the
highway over the Moserloden and
was ncl'cFe -N VIE" injuries that, Ii Is
t',r'"-t WV" rrn,.n f't"' On ,hc CO me
day Il young woman fell In the Schnee'
berg and broke her right foot.
Late last month an official Alpine
guide "+",' ~"""" ~ tAc Dent
| Blanche. the great mountain in the
southern part OF Valais. 1t Is 1431S
feet high, and hundreds Of Alpine
cranks feel that they cannot be happy
until they climb it. In this case the
party had an accident In the worst
stage Of the journey. Two Of the men
| slipped and, once started. slid like
li.i.tllug toward the brink Of deep
assure In the glacier. The guide rush
| cd down to them and threw himself In
| front Of them. This checked their de-
/ scent, but he went over and was killed.
Near Bo2en. In the ,Tyrol, a tailor
from Cries lost his way In the noun
tains and. making misstep In the
darkness. fell into the dry bed OF a
mountain stream. where his body was
found many days nfterward. Judge
Reming Of I,erlin. who bad been re-
ported as missing. was found dead last
week III a mountain gorge near Oberst-
lorf. Tyrol. He had left one of the
refuge stations to ascend the mountain
and had fallen almost within sight OF
the cnretnker. at about the same time
/ the quest for cdelwcss demanded an
other victim in the person Of young
salesman IN the Hochlantsch. He had
| climbed out on bowlder to pluck the
! plant. and his weight loosened the
rock. 1t went into the abyss with him.
| HI fell several hundred yards and was
dead ut once.
The last victim of the Gross Clock
ner. in the Austrian Alps was Berlin
capitalist, who died on the Scharten
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