The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-10-14
Alpine Tragedy-EleVen Lives Lost ON
Mont Blanc.

The Journal de Geneve gives the ac-
count of terrible accident on Mont 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 was fine, but the
next morning there was SO violent storm
that the inhabitants of Ohamounix 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 is 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 upon the Dromedary's
Hump, an hours march distant from the
summit; that they had been seen suddenly
to collect together, and to hold fast one 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 to fear for the result.
However, when the next day the proprietor
OF the Pavilion do la PieTre-Pointue ar
rived, expressing his astonishment at find
ing that no one bad redescended. people
began to have serious apprehensions re-
garding the fate of the travellers. The day
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. Unfortunate
ly the shocking weather which prevailed
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 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
probable that at the moment when they
were seen for the last time grouped to-
gether on the top of the Bosses du Droma-
daire, they we're making supreme effort
to withstand the tempest, so terrible on
those heights; that their effort was OF no
avail, and that they wore precipitated
together upon the Glacier du Mage,
which spreads out on the side of the Al
lee Blanche. The travellers were Mr.. Co
hendal, Scotch; ]. Bean and j. O. Kendall,
Americans. We have been furnished with
the names Of two of the guides, Jean Bal
matek and Joseph Breton, who we're well
known on account of their numerous as
tensions. One of the porters was young
Garde Mobile. who, on account of being
the support of his family, was excused
| from service and sent home few days
previously. His father was killed some
years ago on the Grands-Mulets, by the
falling of stone detached from rock.
This terrible drama has produced at Cha
mounix an emotion which we shall not at
tempt to describe. The whole of the val
4 lev is literally in mourning"