Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-12

The kuupsack brought my head down
| first aud ] pitched into some rocks about
| dozen feet below: they caught some
| thing aud tmuhlcd me OF the ledge, head
| over heels into the gully; the baton WAS
| dashed from my hands, and ] whrlrd
| down in o series OF bounds. each longer
| than tie last; now over Ice, now INTO
rocks; striking my head four or five
| times each time with Increased force.
| The last bound sent me spinning through
| the air. In o leap Of fifty or sixty feet
| from one side of the gully 20 the Otlcr
/ aud / struck the rocks, luckily with the
! whole of my left side. They caught my
! clothes for u moment and / fell back
into the snow with motion arrested. My
head fortunately came the right side
mo. and few frantic clutches brought
me to halt ~ the mock Of the gully,
and on the verge of Ike prccWre
THE CATASTROPHE or 1865.
Al last In the year 1856 Mr.. Whymper
attained the goal of his desires. The
glory of the first ascent was even then
nearly snatched from him by Two Italian
Almnists. Arriving ON the Ith of july
nj Breuil. he found that Slguor Giordunu
and Sipuor Sella We're there before him
They had engaged no fewer that seven
guides, including the redoubtable Jean
Antoine CGwp aud prepared a mules
load of provisions, and were only wait
ing for fine weather % attack lhc lhuuh-
.nm. of which the Curres had already
ladc preliminary Reconnaissance
30 other guides were ubt0innhlc ON the
ualinp side and Mr.. Whymper bud tu
change his plans. Accompanied 10y Lord
Fruuds Douglas, who had just dis
tiurtlished himself by the ascent of the
Obpr Gahchoru, and hls guide Ihug-
Wuldcr. be crossed the IhcOdule pass to
try the ascent from Iermatt Situng
&, f.t
hotel he found his former guide Michel
Croz. who was about 20 try the ascent
with the Rev Charles Hudson aud MIR,
Undow The TWO parties joined, ana
with old Peter Tuugwalder for second
guide and his two cons Tor portcfs, LETT
Xermati AZ half past > o'clock on the
morning of the 18th of July 1860, aud
inter camping out az a height Of 1900
feet. attained the summit at 40 p. m,
on the following day
The story Of the awful catastrophe that
happened during the descent has ire
uucntly been told. but, though there h
nothing "a be added 10 Mr.. Nhympcrs
own account Of II u VIII bear telling.
The party were all secured together
bv Tho rome Cruz led the way, Mr.
Hadow followed him, Mr. Hudson was
third then came Lord Francis Douglas,
potter Tangwalder Mr. Whymper and
Ola plugwalder's son. They were de-
sreuding steep lace OF rock, mruy
glazed with icc and with what little
hand aud foothold there was frequently
checked up with snow. 10 diiiicnit aud
nreripitous was the slope that only one
man cauld move nc time The rest
arrhoring themselves 10 the rocks aud
belping him with the rope.
IA this juncmre Mr. Hadow, who was
"A comparatively inexperienced NOM.
t,ineer found hmsef in difficulties. and
Michel Croz bad 10 climb up 70 him and
help him by actually pushluf hls ieel
rock Exactly what happened next no one
sver knew. for Croz and Mr. iiadOw
were hidden FROM Mr.. Whymper ard
M Tangwallers by an Intervening piece
of rock. The presumpug q that Mt
Hadow slipped and knocked troz ~ MS |
feet Cr0z was a heavy mar hhd ils
,,aigbt with the added impetus Of a fall