Show HOW AVALANCHE IN SWISS ALPS DESTROYS ALL THINGS A mountain climber in dige log ing the accounts of recent ava avalanche lanch in the southern southam alps I 1 resulting rebutting in destruction and death says the cause of these haae sudden deA descents cents Is not far to seek on X the higher slopes there have been six or eight weeks of clear S almost uninterrupted frosts which have caused tho the eli existing sting snow to become loose and powdery now under tinder pressure of tho the recent heavy falls of fresh snow this loose under snow lias has given way and vast masses of tt it gathering volume every moment fire are plunging down the mountain sides overwhelming sheep and unfortunate tourists and burying all that comes in their path this ype type of powdery avalanche serious enough to life and limb la IS as nothing compared with the real ti built up tip of of snow alint may have commenced years ngo ago those these vast occur on tile the plateaus or less steep inclines the ithe pressure of ench succeeding seasons sen sons snow turns the under tinder snow to ice and winter after winter the inas anai increases in weight and volume A moment arrived when ow ing ln either to pressure from I 1 higher levels or ilia lie ninas dinas grow ing iso ho immense it overcomes any resistance that holds it or due to an exceptionally mild Fi summer frummer the lowest stra stratum turn against the mountain attie aide Is melted and a sort of witter cushion la in fornies upon which the whole glides forward there tire are other causes but for some borne reason such an aa these the colossal maa commences to barq downward toward the valley it if the pace Is 1 slow alow tt it Is known us as a R creeping cie avillan avalanche clie and can be kept hept un der constant observation there Is in little immediate danger from fc it end and peasants and farmer can be warned of tha approaching peril sometimes bo however wever an aval anrce alche of this typo type will within a few hours of having become loosened hurt hurl itself downward with the speed of an express train and a noise exceeding all imagination nothing can withstand it farms and homesteads it anre re swept away or burled buried forests 8 tit f fir clr and pine are crashed down or carried away like so much straw cattle rocks railways are all carried before it until either it comes to rest in lower levels or hurls itself over perpendicular walls walla i of rock into the valleys beneath |