2. U. S. SKIERS KILLED 4 OTHERS DIE IN AVALANCHE IN AUSTRIAN ALPS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300550009-6
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• Publication Date: January 29, 1956
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JAN 291959
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2 U. S. SKIERS KILLED
4 Others Die in Avalanche
in Austrian Alps
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other holiday sers were killed i
Z A roaring avalanche at this I
si`riaii Alpine resort today,
'Police said none of the six vic-i
tims had been identified pos-
itively.
Two Britons and two Germans;
were among the victims. Two
were women.
It was the worst tragedy of
Austria's winter holiday season.
The avalanche strikck a group
of none skiers, led by an Aus-
trian instructor, while practic-
ing near the Ulmer Mountain
hut at 6,000 feet altitude.
Rescuers managed to dig out
three persons alive, but five
others were decd by the time l
they were reached.
The avalanche was 2,400 feet:
long, 600 feet wide and twelve,
feet deep.
The accident brought to twen-
ty-nine the death toil from Aus-
trian ' a.valances this winter.
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