Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-10-13
Alpine Tragedy-Eleven Lives Lost on
Mont Blanc.

The Journal de Geneve gives the ac.
count of q terrible accident on Mons Blanc:
"Three travellers, an Irishman, two Ameri-
cans, with three guides and FIVE porters,
left Chamounix on Monday morning, to
arrive that day and sleep at the Grands.
Mulets. The weather wss fine, but the
next morning there was so vi olent storm
that the inhabitants of ChGmounix natur-
ally supposed that the travellers would have
given up the idea of an ascent of Mont
Blanc, and would not have quilted the
Grand Mulets. There was, therefore, no
disquiet respecting them in the valley.
News came. it il true. IN the evening that
from the Croix de Flegere and from Bre-
vent they had been seen starting for
Mont Blanc in spite of the tempest, and
that they had arrived upcEa the Dromedary's s
Hump, an hours march distant from the
summit; that they had been seen suddenly
to collect together, and to hold fast ono to
another, and then to disappear in the snow
wreaths raised by the wind. In spite of
this, however, people persisted in believ-
ing that they must have sheltered them
selves against the wind in some nook or
crevice of the ice. and therefore there was
no great occasion 20 fear for the result
However, when the next day the proprietor
of the Pavilion de Ia Pierre-Pointue ar
rived, expressing his establishment at find
ing that no one had redescended. people
began to have serious apprehensions re-
garding the fate of the travellers. The iay
was too far advanced to render it possible
to make any immediate search !;
but on the following morning, early,
thirty-two young men of the valley
went off in search of them. Unto rtunate-
" the shocking weather which revailed
prevented them from passing the pavilion
of Pierre-Pointue, situated at two hours
Journey from Chamounix. They were
obliged to retrace their steps without be-
ing able to do anything. On the follow
ing day a new attempt was
made by twelve courageous
young men; but again the rain and
the mountain. At t.ie hour of writing
there remains no hope that these unfortu-
nate people have escaped death. 1t is
probable that at the moment when they
were seen for the last time gtouped to-
gether on the top of the Bosses du Droma-
daire, they were making supreme effort
to Withstand the tempest, SO terrible on
those heights; that their effort was of no
avail, and that they were precipitated
together upon tho Glacier du Mage,
which spreads out ON the side of the Al
lee Blanche. Tie travellers were Mr.. Co.
hendal, Scotch; J. Ban and J. O. Kendall,
Americans. We have been furnished with
the names OF two OF tbs guides. Jean Bal
matek and Joseph Breton, who were well
known on account of their numerous as
tensions. One O. the porters was a young
Garde Mobile. wfo, on account of being
the support of his family, was excused
frcm service and sent home few days
previously. His father was killed some
years ago on the Grands-Mulets, by the
falling OF IA stone detached from a rock
This terrible drama has produced at Cha
| mounix an emotion which We shall not at
tempt to describe. The whole of the val
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