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Show womnn flashing her lis though slie wi'ie no more tlinn a Wade of straw down info the abyss below. HURRICANE '" SWEEPS ALPS TURIN, Aug. 5. A hurricane raged through the Alps today, tearing tear-ing up houses and trees and endangering en-dangering the lives of. dwellers among the peaks. , From Monte Rosa came word that two Alpine climbers had been swept away by the swirling force of the storm. One of them was blown down into an abyss, while the other, for a fleeting moment, clung in safety to a rope above the gaunt chasm. Then a stronger blast swept him too, down into the depths. Another tale of tragedy caine in from Ivrea, relating the fate which had befallen Monte ltarone, . 7,500 feet above sea level. There the pious villagers were celebrating the feast of the redeemer when the hurricane roard in from the mountains, knocking knock-ing down houses and tearing up trees. In its pa Ih, the wind seized a |