Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-03

teamster, met with a!!frightful death during the binding storm of last Thursday. night. He had been to Hoboken with load of ship tim Der and started homo in company with Fur man Johnson and Thomas Morgan. Their route was up the boulevard, along the Pali- sades, a distance of about eighteen miles, to the Oloster dock road. The storm came on about six o'clock in the evening and eoatin- ued to increase in violence until about ten o'clock. The teams reached Closter road about eight o'clock. The night was ss black as ink and the teams kept together all the way up. When the road leading to MT. Brswstsr's house was reached Johnson called to Blanche and he replied. Blanche thea called to Morgan and he replied. Johnson turned of on the right road, and when he had gone 8 short distance he called to Blanche again and received no answer. He turned his team and started back. He soon met Morgan, but Blanche was mo- where to be found. He called loudly and drove up and down the boulevard, but could not see or hear anything of him. Morgan in the meantime turned and drove down the dock road toward the river, but soon re- traced his steps and drove directly to Mir. Brewster's residence, where all the teamsters resided. In few moments after Morgan's arrival Johnson drove in and reported that he could not find Blanche. It was then about ten o'clock, and Mir. Brewster had retired, expecting that his teams had put up for the night at Fort Lee. On Friday morning the two teamsters reported the occurrence of the night before, and MT. Brewster began search ing for the missing teamster. He was joined in the search by Johnson. At the cross road where the teams turned of they discov- ered the tracks of the missing wagon. They traced it up about two miles to the Brownell road. There the wagon had turned toward the river. This road leads directly to the brink of the Palisades, which at this point rise 475 feet above the surface of the river. The wagon was tracked to the very brink of the precipice. Then it took sudden sweep at right angles with the road and fol- lowed @ rugged road about two hundred yards. There MT. Brewster found his team entanpled in tree on the very edge of the Palisades, the wheels on one side of the wagon hanging over the jagged rocks below. In their efforts to free themselves the horses had paved great holes in the half rocky soil. The missing team ster was nowhere to be found. Not stitch of clothing, whip anything to giveany clew to his whereabouts were visible. The reins were loosely thrown over the front bolster of the wagon, and it was the opinion of Mir. Brewster that the missing man had fallen of the wagon before reaching the cross road, and the team had wandered to the dangerous spot where it was found. Mr. Brewster suggested to MT. Johnson that possibly Blanche might have tumbled over the Palisades. He went to the Brownell road on top of the prscipice, and peering carefully over for some time, finally thought he saw the body of man among the rocks about two-thirds of the way down to the water, but at the foot of the great precipice. Johnson hurriedly informed Mir. Brewster, and summoning some of the most venturesome men from Cioster depot, and providing themselves with ropes, hooks blankets and axes they started. About half Q mile above this road they found narrow gully, through which it was proposed to make descent By the aid of ropes and hooks, and at the risk of their lives, seven men reached the sharp rocks below. The party then clambered up close under the awful precipice and there, partially on his side, lay the body of the missing teamster. It was a ghastly sight. His clothing was nearly torn of him; his skull was crushed on the left side of the head, and brains oozing out over the ragged rocks upon which the body lay; the left leg was broken and frightfully crushed, and the left arm was nearly torn of. The eyes were wide open and the features were contorted, indicative of ths terrible agony of the moment when death overlook ths unfortunate man.