The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

YATAZ ACCIDENTS TO TOURISTS.

rt A sad affair," says the Paris Union, hag Ge-
mmed at Hague= de Leath, in the Pyrenfas. An English
clergyman, the Rev. Mr. 13—, an archdeacon, on Fe iday
lea ameaded with soma Meads sad • guide the mountain
celled the Col du Port de Vameque. Arrived nearly at the
top, where visitors generally mop, he reeolvel to go to the
vary suminit, though told that the ascent was dangers=
and be went alone, Musing to allow even the guide to
aceompaey him. Hoare pared away, sad he did not return.
Nothiag bar= been as= or heard of him up to Monday,
neural =ldes were mat out to search, and after some time
discover= his deed body dreadfully mtuilakd at the bottom
of en abyss near the Pert de Vensaerse. The rev. gentle-
mao, who was to have sat out on Monday foe England, was
a great pedeatriam, and had seconded Mont Blase."
A correspondent at Zermatt communicates the particulars
! of a fatal accident which hoe ocean= to a Russian gentle-
; man named Edouard de Grotto. It appeare that in demand-
lag fres the top of the Welesthor Pass, instead of turning to
the left sad taldag the usual route along the Gorier Glider
to the Melberg, be datelided by the Findelen Glacier,
which elopes from the pea directly down into the Talley Of
Zermatt, and sonde a shorter, though mach more wil-
ting, route to the town than the Cornea Glacier. The
traveller sad two guides were fastened together by a
rope, the traveller being in the middle ; the rope was tied
round hh body, but was not, as it should have been, tied round
the guides also ; it was only held on the left arm of each by
a large loose loop. In this way they prised &rely over the
greater part of the fierier, sad were within a few minutes of
having it altogether, when they came to &lege pooh of now,
which the guides, according to their own &exeunt, proposed
to peas round, bat which the traveller insisted on crossing.
Accordingly the tint guide crowd it in safety. The travel.
ler—who was a fine, powerful man—then followed him, but
whoa be bad reached the middle the snow gave way under
hie feet, and he sank into a hidden crevasse. Maytag no
Algenrock, he could not break hie fall in the usual Ivey, by
bolding It aroma the chasm, and so his whole weight wee
thrown with a sudden jerk upon the rope, which broke in-
stantly upon both Si lea of the crevasse, down which the =-
fortunate amen consequently fall His voles wee soon beard
calling for ...Maumee, which the =idea were not artfal
enough to render; the CreDield wee a peculiar one, being
marrow at the top, and widening downward. for mom
team, attar which it 'armored agsia till its sides meta
depth of &hint 200 feet. This cinaunamsos rendered It
itopeasthe to reach him without a rope ; he appeared to be
about 60 feet from the top, wedged between the &idea of the
groom; and they had no rope commis( the two en/a that
W remalaed with them, of about a yard each, so they
determined that one of them should go to the nearest chain
—a two hot= walk—for ropes. The idea of trying to make
• rope by cornea up thar meta and shirta, sad especially
their leathern knapsacks, seam., moot unaccountably, never
to have occurred to them. Thus the unfortunate H. de
Grotto readmel no aseistatem foe four hours, daring which
be frequently spoke to the guide above ; he was, be said,
In a Mopiag raki,*, with his head lower then his feet,
ad with ins right arm free, but be was constentiy sinking
lower. Alter tares boars the flow of blood so hie bead, sad
the internee cold, had vary much weakened him ; be nooks
alio= &eying only that he wee being frozen to death.
At last, after four hours, the =de re:tuned from the
Findelen chalet with mast' once; the rope we- lowered, hat
we- tuned to be 12 feet too short to reach him. Now, a
will scerosly be railed, but it is a far, that when the rope
woe found to be too abort nothing more was don., but men
were emit fa mote rope to Zermatt, a (Prance of four
borne, eo that the unhappy loth we- condemned by the
halpleas clown' above him to pass eight hour* more la his
icy prison. He had endured the most dreadful agony, foe
at first the warmth of his booty dissolving the im nest him,
mug him to aka lower; bat as the vital heat departed
the cold gradually regained Its superiority, so that he was
frozen in tightly between the walls of ice, which, as their
wetted surfaces congealed and slightly Impended towards
etch other, malted him between them will irresistible
Lam. About the end of the fifth hour the poor mart died.
The correspondent who sends this &coolest is of opinion
that the explanatioas of the guides as to the breaking of the
rope, la., are unsatisf.ctory, and that a more thorough
implry might to be made.

Ws are glad to tied the followther hs the Glasgow Daily
Mai 1:—" Tbe English geed, to en, Dr, Smith, who was
reputed to have soddenly dimppeand in one of the crevices
of Goatfell, to Arran, whin moiroding the mountain, to com-
pany wi h a friend, on Someday afternoon last, and of whom
no trace was paid to have 1, en fooad alter two d.ye search,
arrived la Olawow yesterday motor, by the H.ro steamer,
tale and mend."