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 little
thought a friend of mine would be so crushed
" Ye toppling crags of ice,
Ye avalanche; whom a breath draws down
In mountains o'erwhelining, come and crush me!"
'Tis a sad epitaph over the graves of Capt. Arkwright,
Simond Michel (one of Chamounix's best guides), and
Joseph and Frangois Tournier (porters),
who lost their
lives iu the attempt to ascend Mont Blanc. Couttet thinks
• that, from the nature of the place whore the accident hap-
' pened, it will be impossible to recover the bodies.
A few particulars may not be uninteresting to your many
reader; 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 Mulcts, 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 theirte
friends at Chamounix of their safe arrival, whereupon,]_s
of
• cannon at the Hotel Royal echoed forth their poi.
thunder in the quiet of the evening in re:prod:7g..
At this time Mrs. Arkwright and y?ung _oyful,bktnewna
stay-
ing at the Hotel Royal, were exceedinglynd
and his sister in
informed me that Capt. Arkwrfiglfiot:ing.
morning, but had
to return to Chamounix the 1
that the party had arrived safely, a Mrs. Arkwright
until the evening. The season
little hopes of seeing
fewvisitors
from the Hotel Royal, taking
cook and one of the coachmenftr the foregoing party to accom-
em
French leave, hastened a
now drawingthem u are in Chamounix. The
eThe services of the former
panyGrands
• linable at the Mulets.
would, no doubt, be
S. t rdq ,)the two parties leftthe
The following morning (. au 3
Arkwright, Samuel Michel, and the
Mulcts at 5.30, Capt.
roped together, Silvan Couttet (who keeps the
to the Mulets.
two porters
hut at the (frauds Mulcts, also the one at the Pierre Pointe;
who is considered ono of Mont Blanc's best guides) and
thelnd coachman roped by themselves, leaving Miss Arkwright
;cud the cook at the Grands Mulets to await their return.
The grand plateau was crossed in safety, and the party
were passing what is termed the Ancien Passage, when a
terrible sound was heard by all. Couttet knew whence it
lives. The down
a snow
otherslope, rty
came, and shouted to the others to save themselves.
Couttet, being a little in advance of the other party at tle
andtim eb,
yd astonishedrdaogignegdsothneodoubtsaved coachman
theirve
scrambled in quite the opposite direction. The
pissed, hurrying with it in its frightful avalanche
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:
w
no sign of life met their view. Allquiet, and they re-
turned sorrowfully to the Grands Miailse This accident
happened in precisely the same spot where three guides lost
their lives in deseendiu •
1820. g with Dr. Hamel (or Humboldt)in

A party of 24 guides and two gendarmes left this morning
at 11 o'clock for the Grinds Millets, 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 'Jodie?.
Miss Arkwright, with Silven Con ttet, returned to Chatnounro
yesterday evening to break the sad end distressing news
her anxious mother and sister.
_•

EDWIN A. PETTIT.
Ilotel du Mont 111;3nc, Chamounix, Oct. 14.

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