The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

More Deaths on Mont Blanc.

The following distressing narrative appears in
the Times of yesterday :
My pen feels weak when I sit down and try to send you
a short account of a sad and terrible catastrophe that hap-
pened on Mont Blanc yesterday, at 10 a.m.
The following lines I have repeated often, but littlo
thought a friend of mine would be so crushed :

" Ye toppling crags of ice,
Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down
In mountains o'erwhelming, come and crush rue!"
'Tis a sad epitaph over the graves of Capt. Arkwright,
Simond Michel (one of Chamounix's best guides), and
Joseph and Fran9ois '.Fournier (porters), who lost their
lives in the attempt to ascend Mont Blanc. Couttet thinks
that, from the nature of the place where the accident hap-
pened, it will be impossible to recover the bodies.
A few particulars may not be uninteresting to your many
readers, this being the second sad gloom that has been cast
over this beautiful valley this season.

On Friday morning, at 8.30, Capt. Arkwright and his
sister, Simond Michel (guide), and two porters left Cha-
mounix for the Grands Mulets, at which place they arrived
in the evening at 6 o'clock. At that time the shades of
night had already fallen, and fires were lighted at the
Grands Mulets, also at the Pierre Pointue, to signal their
friends at Chamounix of their safe arrival, whereupon the
cannon at the Hotel Royal echoed forth their peals of
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CoUttet, being a little in advance of the other party at the
time, dragged the astonished coachman down a snow slope,
and by doing so no doubt saved their lives. The other party
scrambled in quite the opposite direction. The avalanche
pissed, hurrying with it in its frightful course poor Capt.
Arkwright and his three guides. Couttet and the coachman,
with no small amount of exertion, managed to extricate
themselves from the mass of small ice they were buried in,
and, with the exception of Couttet receiving arather severe
bruise on the nose from a piece of ice, they escaped unhurt
to look, and to look again. for their missing party, but alas r
no sign of life mot their view. All was quiet, and they re-
turned sorrowfully to the Grands Mulcts. This accident
happened in precisely the same spot where three guides lost
their lives iu descending with Dr. Usmel (or llumboldt)ia
1820.

A party of 24 guides and two gendarmes left this morning
at. 11 o'clock for the (,rands Mulcts, at which place they
arrived this evening at 5.30, and will leave early to-morrow
morning to carry out their painful search for the bodies.
Nliss Arkwright, with Silvon Ouuttet, returned to Chamoun.x
yesterday evening to break the sad and distressing news to
her anxious mother and sister.

EnWIN A. PETTIT.
Climiounix, Oct. 14.

Hotel du Mout Blanc

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