The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
a Lady Thrown from her HOrse at the
Edge OF the GRAND canon.

! a Lady Thrown from her HOrse AT the
Edge OF the Grand canon.
As much interest as there may be
attached to the war between the con
tending railroads In the Grand Canon OF
the Arkansas, no occurrence has trans
pired in that locality which has attracted
so much attention and sympathy as an
accident which recently happened to
Mrs. Z. j. Mallett, of Canon City. Mrs.
Mallett is an excellent horseweman, and
having great confidence in her riding
skill, started out last Sunday afternoon
with her husband and other friends on
horseback to visit the scene of operations
in the canon. OF all the wonderful
canons in Colorado the Grand Canon of
the Arkansas is the most awe inspiring.
The walls are 2 900 feet high at places,
and almost perpendicular. Before opera
tiops were begun with them by the rail
road men no one ever attempted to pass
through the gorge except during the
winter and then on ice. The laborers
have, however, made paths III the very
sides OF the
IMMENSE PRBCIPICEe
and it was along one of these that Mrs.
Mallett and her friends were travelling.
She rode atrusty horse, and was as COM
posed rs any of her party. They had
proceeded TO point beyond the horse
trail and were descending a steep hill
Inc path was q narrow one, the walls of
the cannon shooting far up toward the.
blue, clear sky, and down Tor hundreds
of feet until they dipped into the dis
turbed waters of the rapid rolling
Arkansas. 1t was at this dangerous
spot that Mrs. Mallett's horse stumbled
and fell. Therewas no room for the least
falter. This was, therefore, fatal step.
Mrs. Mallett, with almost Incredible
presence of mind, disentangled her
self from her horse. Below her,
ten feet, was q shelving rock,
about fifteen inches wide. This she
struck and caught with her hands. With
nerve that would have made the aterner
SEE proud OF manhood, thelady held on
to the end of the rock, dangling in the.
air, gripping it with desperation. Had
she let go, her next Judgment would have.
been on another shelf fifty feet below.
To hold on was therefore her only
resort. With all the dispatch possible,
Mr.. Mallett and Others came TO her RESI-
cue, and succeeded in taking her from
the pefiiOns situation, almost uninjured,
but OF ,coursegery much exhausted from
fright. Now comes the
sTRANGEsTPARr OF THEsFoRy.
The horse also fell, and lodged on the
same shelfto which his mistress was
clinging. In falling he had turned com.
pletely around, buttthere ne stood ,Ongthe
narrow iedgeafstOne, lhugging the wall, \
and evidently realizing his position, if
horse ever realized anything. He did |
not stir muscle, hardly breathed for an
hour or more, until ropes strong enough
totake him out were sentlfor and obtains
ed at a camp mile distant. BY the
time these arrived, fifty men or more,
who We're engaged in the canon had
gathered along thegtfail, and as many as
could M Ike themselves useful assisted in 4
Lifting the animalup. Heseemed to rea-
lie fully that steps were being taken for
his relief, and did not move TO make res
,iatance untilIhe was placed upon sure
footing in the path. The escape of Mrs.
Mallett, under the ciFcnmstanc is very
little less than miraculous, and that the
morse should have been saved, lis almost
Incredible. The accident and the rescue
nave proved prolific themes rofyconyersa-
ion IN Cah0n, andithe first report cansed
corresponding excitement. Mrs. .MalIett
8 the wife of Prot. Mallett, who is the
proprietor of the reduction works. at i
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