The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-30

Terrible Accident On M0as ssrnsss,- z.
Esegen Lives Esuss-.No Traces or che
FEfsssng Travellers.
The Journal de Genese gives the follow
ing account OF d terrible accident upon
Mont Blanc: .,r+tss j. !,
Three travellers, an Irishman and two
Americans, with three guides aud five por-
ters. left Chamounix on Monday morning,
to arrive that day and sleep at the Grands-
MuletS. The weather was fine, but the
next morning. there was 50 violent storm
that the inhabitants OF Chamounix natu-
rally supposed that the travellers would
have given up the idea of an ascent
Of Mont Blanc. and would not have quilted
the Grands-Mulets. There was, therefore,
no disquict respecting them in the valley.
News came, it is true, In the evening, that
from tie Croix de Flegere and from Bre-
vent that they had been seen starting for
Mont Blanc in spite of the tempest, and
that they had arrived upon the Dromedary's
hump, an hours march distant from the
summit; that they had been seen suddenly
10 collect together and to hold fast one to
another, and then to disappear in the snow
wreaths raised by the wind. Tn spite of
thls, however, people persisted in believing
that they must have sheltered themselves
against the wind In some nook or creyice of
the ice, and therefore there was no great
occasion to fear for the result. However.
when the next day the proprietor of
the Pavilion de Ia Pierre-Pointue ar
rived, eNprcssin his astopishment at
finding that no one had redescended,
people began TO have serious approximations
regarding the fate Of the travellers, The
day was too far advanced to render il posi-
bic 10 make any immediate search; but on
the following. morning thirty-two young
men OF the valley went off in search of them
Unfortunately, the shocking weather which
prevailed prevented them from passing the
pavilion OF Pierre-P ointue, situated at two
hours journey from Chamounix. They
were obliged to retrace their steps without
being able to do anything. On the follow
ing day n new attempt was made by twelve
courageous young men but again the rain
and the wind would not permit them to scale
the mountain. At the hour Of writing
there remains no hope that these unfortu-
nate people have escaped DEATH 1t is pro-
bable that at the moment when they were
seen for the last time grouped together Oh
the top of the Bosses du Dromadaire,
they were making supreme effort to with
stand the tempest, so terrible on those
heights; that their effort was of no avail,
and that they were precipilated together
upon the Glacier du Mage. which spreads
ont on the side of the Alice Blanche. We
have been furnished with the names of two
of the glIideS-Jean Balmatek and Joseph
Breton-who were we'll known on account
Of their numerous aScensions. One of the
portcrS was a young Garde Mobile, who, on
account of being the support of his family,
was excused from service and sent home a
few days previously. His father was killed
some years ago on the Grands-Mulets by
the falling of Il stone detached from q rock.
This terrible drama has produced at Cha
mouniX an emotion which we shall not at
tempt to describe. The whole of the valley
is literally in mourning.