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Show TYROLEAN GUIDE IS EVENTUALLY KILLED i Innerkofler Had Accomplished Daring Deeds; Was Well Known to American Tourists. Special Cable to The Tribune. VIENNA, Sept. 4. Sepp Innerkofler, a 1 famous Tyrolean Alpine guide, who was j known to many Americans, has been i killed at the front on the Isonzo. Be-' Be-' fore an Italian bullet struck him down I he accomplished many daring deeds. In the course of the battles In the re-j re-j gion of the Drei-Zinnen mountains it be-I be-I came necessary to re"onnoller the poel-. poel-. tions of the Italian artillery and infan-j infan-j trv. Innerkofler volunteered for this dan-i dan-i serous work. On a pitch dark night he I climbed to a summit of the Kleine Zinne, I a peak nearly 8000 feet high. He carried a telephone apparatus and j In the morning, as soon as lie could dis-' dis-' tinguish the Italian positions, he directed direct-ed the fire of the Austrian artillery from his lofty post. The Italians were thrown Into a panic when a hall of shells struck them with deadly accuracy. After a fearful bombardment bom-bardment they were completely driven from the Paterno saddle by an attack of a battalion of Tyrolean sharpshooters. Shorily before his death Innerkofler led a small scouting detachment, which had been ordered to 'make a flank attack on a company of Italian Alpine troops. Under Un-der the cover of the night, after hours of dangerous climbing, the famous guide brought the detachment to the summit of Mount Elfers, one of the highest of the dolomite mountains in the Sexten region. About 4 o'clock in the morning Inner-! Inner-! kofler and his companions found a fa-' fa-' vorable position and opened fire. i The Italians brought their artillery Into action and when they found that they could not reach the enerrj- with their shells thev decided to cut oif the retreat of the small band. Innerkofler was not to be caught, however. He descended on the Italian side of the mountain and then brought his detachment safely back to tbe Austrian lines over secret mountain moun-tain paths that were known to him only. A heavv fog aided him and his men In their escape and they had no losses, although al-though they killed about twenty-five Italians. |